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Pelusium and Salahieli, Sethi'um, <tc. There ai-e other towns of the 

 sime name m the land of the Pharaohs. Diodorus makes Chabruis 

 the son and successor of his Chemmis and the same person as Cephren, 

 called his brother. Herodotus mentions Cephreli also as the succes- 

 sor of Cheops. Now Cheops or Suphis had no brother of this name, 

 and bis nephew wlio succeeded him was Ivneph Suphis or Anub, son 

 of Ziphah. Manetho nowhere makes mention of a Chabrias or 

 Cephren immediately after Suphis, but records several names which 

 relate to the person so called. In the third dynasty there is a 

 Sephouris, who rightly comes next to Aches or Achuzam, but is 

 wrongly placed with him after a Suphis, Tosertasis only intervening. 

 Sephres, who I think is the same monarch, is the second of the fifth 

 dynasty, Usercheres being the first. It is worthy of note that 

 Sephouris is said to have reigned thirty years and Sephres thirteen.^" 

 Not till the eighteenth dynasty do we meet with a similar name ; and 

 then, in the second and twelfth places according to Africanns, we 

 find Chebros and Chebres with a reign of thirteen and twelve years 

 respectively. He is, I am persuaded, the same person as Sephres or 

 Sephuris and the eponym of Chabrias and Avaris. Sephuris has 

 been found at Gizeh, the region of Achuzam. At Karnak he appears 

 on the same line with Aches. Like others of his race, he fights the 

 Anu, or people of Onam the Horite. He has a tablet in the Sinaitic 

 peninsula, where, I doubt not, he gaA^e his name to cojyper in many 

 languages, as he did to the cypress among trees. Sephres, again, has 

 been rightly placed third after Menes by Lepsius, Achuzam being 

 the second, under his name of Athothes. He has been seen to connect 

 with the family or line of Usecheres or Ashchur, and to him is imputed 

 the Sphinx, which immortalized his elder brother. His identity with 

 Hyperion and relations with the places called Sippax-a and Kirjath 

 Sepher are also fully established by the frequent mention made 

 of the " Library of Sephres." ^^ Mr. Galloway, quoting Aby- 

 denus and other writers after Berosus, conclusively proves that 

 Sippara and Heliopolis, the town of Hyperion or Hepher, are the 

 same.''''^ The relations that subsisted between this place and Xisuthrus 

 or Sesostris or Achashtari will yet make the fact irrefutable. I have 

 connected Sephres and Chebros, although the latter occurs in the 



60 The " tliirty years" allotted to Sephouris is I think a mistake, thirteen being the true 

 numher. 



61 Oshurn, i. 310. 



6B Egypt's Record^ 159. 



