hes Khufui and Khnumu-
Khufui on the same monuments has caused much embarrassment
to Egyptologists: the majority have been inclined to see
here two different kings, the second of whom, according to
M. Robiou, would have been the person who bore the pre-nomen
of Dadufri. Khnumu-Khufui signifies "the god Khnumu protects
me."

** Kheops is the usual form, borrowed from the account of
Herodotus; Diodorus writes Khembes or Khemmes, Eratosthenes
Saophis, and Manetho Souphis.

*** The story in the "Westcar" papyrus speaks of Snofrui as
father of Khufui; but this is a title of honour, and proves
nothing. The few records which we have of this period give
one, however, the impression that Kheops was the son of
Snofrui, and, in spite of the hesitation of de Rouge, this
affiliation is adopted by the majority of modern historians.

[175.jpg alabaster statue of kheops]

Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph by Emil Brugsch-Bey.

He reigned twenty-three years, and successfully defended the mines of
the Sinaitic peninsula against the Bedouin; he may still be seen on the
face of the rocks in the Wady Maghara sacrificing his Asiatic prisoners,
now before the jackal Anubis, now before the ibis-headed Thot. The gods
reaped advantage from his activity and riches; he restored the temple
of Ha-thor at Den-dera, embellished that of Bubastis, built a stone
sanctuary to the Isis of the Sphinx, and consecrated there gold, silver,
bronze, and wooden statues of Horus, Nephthys, Selkit, Phtah, Sokhit,
Osiris, Thot, and Hapis. Scores of other Pharaohs had done as much or
more, on whom no one bestowed a thought a century after their death, and
Kheops would have succumbed to the same indifference had he not forcibly
attracted the continuous attention of posterity by the immensity of his
tomb.*

* All the details relating to the Isis of the Sphinx are
furnished by a stele of the daughter of Kheops, discovered
in the little temple of the XXIst dynasty, situated to the
west of the Great Pyramid, and preserved in the Gizeh
Museum. It was not a work entirely of the XXIst dynasty, as
Mr. Petrie asserts, but the inscription, barely readable,
engraved on the face of the plinth, indicates that it was
remade by a king of the Saite period, perhaps by Sabaco, in
order to replace an ancient stele of the same import which
had falle