finally in his shadow in the little pyramids and mastabas which
clustered around him. Of Dadufri, his immediate successor, we can
probably say that he reigned eight years;* but Khephren, the next son
who succeeded to the throne,** erected temples and a gigantic pyramid,
like his father.

* According to the arrangement proposed by E. de Rouge for
the fragments of the Turin Canon. E. de Rouge reads the name
Ra-tot-ef, and proposes to identify it with the Ratoises of
the lists of Manetho, which the copyists had erroneously put
out of its proper place. This identification has been
generally accepted. Analogy compels us to read Dadufri, like
Khafri, Menkauri, in which case the hypothesis of de Rouge
falls to the ground. The worship of Dadufri was renewed
towards the Saite period, together with that of Kheops and
Khephren, according to some tradition which connected his
reign with that of these two kings. On the general scheme of
the Manethonian history of these times, see Maspero, _Notes
sur quelques points de Grammaire et d'Histoire dans le
Recueil de Travaux_, vol. xvii. pp. 122-138.

** The Westcar Papyrus considers Khafri to be the son of
Khufu; this falls in with information given us, in this
respect, by Diodorus Siculus. The form which this historian
assigns--I do not know on what authority--to the name of the
king, Khabryies, is nearer the original than the Khephren of
Herodotus.

He placed it some 394 feet to the south-west of that of Kheops; and
called it Uiru, the Great. It is, however, smaller than its neighbour,
and attains a height of only 443 feet, but at a distance the difference
in height disappears, and many travellers have thus been led to
attribute the same elevation to the two. The facing, of which about
one-fourth exists from the summit downwards, is of nummulite limestone,
compact, hard, and more homogeneous than that of the courses, with
rusty patches here and there due to masses of a reddish lichen, but
grey elsewhere, and with a low polish which, at a distance, reflects the
sun's rays. Thick walls of unwrought stone enclose the monument on
three sides, and there may be seen behind the west front, in an oblong
enclosure, a row of stone sheds hastily constructed of limestone and
Nile mud.

[Illustration: 187.jpg THE NAME OF KHEOPS DRAWN IN RED ON SEVERAL BLOCKS
OF THE GREAT PYRAMID]

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