Poole, Reginald S.: Horae Aegypticae: or, the chronology of ancient Egypt: discovered from astronomical and hieroglyphic records upon its monuments, including many dates found in coeval inscriptions from the period of the building of the Great Pyramid to the times of the Persians ; and illustrations of the history of the first nineteen dynasties, shewing the order of their succession, from the monuments (London, 1851)

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SHUFU AND NUM-SHUFU.

[Part I.

cording the same date, but much injured, we find men-
tion of King Shufu. These names are written in hiero-
glyphics Num-shufu, or Num-khufu1, and Shufu or Khu-
fu2. In each case I prefer reading the sieve " sh," since

Manetho transcribes each name by Suphis, (ZovQis,)
though this character generally has the value of " kh."
These two royal names are evidently those of the two
Suphises of Manetho, the second and third Kings of the
Fourth Dynasty, according to the version of Africanus;
Shufu being the first Suphis. I formerly supposed the
two names to apply to one King, but now it is my
opinion that they are the names of the two Kings just
mentioned, whom I believe to have reigned together.
My reasons for these conclusions will be fully stated in
the second part of this work.

Having ascertained that a Great Panegyrical Year
commenced in the reign of the two Suphises, I have
now to show what particular Great Panegyrical Year this
was. The basis of the calculations for ascertaining1 the
dates of the commencements of G. P. Y.'s is the date
of the commencement of the Tropical Cycle in the reign
of Amenemha II., B.C. 2005, in the course of the Twelfth
Division of the Twelfth G. P. M. From this I find the
commencement of that G. P. Y. in which the date last
mentioned fell to have been in the year B.C. 2352, and
the commencement of the preceding one B.C. 2717.
That the G. P. Y. which began B.C. 2352 is that of