Brugsch, Heinrich: Egypt under the pharaohs: a history derived entirely from the monuments (London, 1891)

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CHAPTEE IIL

DYNASTIES V.-XL'

'THE PHARAOHS OF THE FIFTH AND SIXTH
DYNASTIES.

TJsercheees heads the list of Pharaohs of the Fifth
Dynasty, according to Manetho. He is the same whom

the Tablet of Abydos gives as User-ka-f, (10 U .

About his reign we learn little. In the inscriptions on
"the sepulchral buildings and monuments of his contempo-
raries he is praised as a Pharaoh at whose tomb a pious
priesthood performed divine worship. Although there
is no longer any token to indicate the monument of King

PJser-ka-f the name of his pyramid, Ab-asu, & J J A?

' the purest place,' has been faithfully preserved. It is

otherwise with Sahu-Ea,( o 21^ \ ,who followed User-

ia-f in the kingdom. The cartouche of this kino- is
painted in red on the stone blocks of a pyramid which rose
northwards from the village of Abusir, on the margin of

the desert, and was entitled Kha-ba, ^^ ' rising of
souls.' His names are conspicuous also on the smooth
•cliff in the Wady-Magharah, where he stands sculptured
on the rock as the vanquisher of foreign peoples.
Beside this an inscription designates him as ' God, who
"Strikes all peoples, and smites all countries with his
arm.'

1 For Table of Kings see p. xx.