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Sect. III.] CONTEMPORARY WITH MEMPHITES. Ill
belong to the Fourth Dynasty, and some to the Fifth.
The tomb is that which Champollion calls that of
Eimai, one of the principal persons buried in it,
an officer of Suphis I.; and in one of its cham-
bers we find a kind of list of Kings, which contains
the names of two Memphites, and one Elephantinite,
in the following order: Shura; Num-shufu; Num-
shufu ; Nufr-ar-ka-ra * ; and in another part of the
same tomb we find a similar list, with the names of
two Elephantinites and one Memphite, thus: Nufr-
ar-ka-ra; Shura; Seser-en-raf. The only peculiarities
in these lists is the repetition of the name of Num-
shufu in the first of them.
The reason for the manner in which these lists are
arranged seems to me to be obvious. The first indi-
cates that Nufr-ar-ka-ra was partly contemporary with
Shura, and partly with Num-shufu; and the second,
that Shura was partly contemporary with Nufr-ar-ka-ra.
There are two Kings in Manetho's lists to whom Nufr-
ar-ka-ra might be supposed to correspond, besides the
Elephantinite Nephercheres; namely, Nephercheres,
the seventh King of the Second Dynasty, of Thinites,
and Sebercheres, supposed by some to be a copyist's
mistake for Nephercheres, the seventh King of the
Fourth Dynasty, of Memphites. Neither of these
Kings, however, can be Nufr-ar-ka-ra; for the former
is recognised in the Tablet of Abydos, and the latter
is too long after the Suphises to be mentioned in the
tomb in which these lists occur. Further, we find
traces of Elephantinite race in the names of the Kings
of the Fourth Dynasty; for in the name of Num-
shufu, the first syllable, Num, or Nev, is the name of
the tutelary god of Elephantine; and we cannot fail
* Plate IV., No. 3. t Plate IV., No. 2.
belong to the Fourth Dynasty, and some to the Fifth.
The tomb is that which Champollion calls that of
Eimai, one of the principal persons buried in it,
an officer of Suphis I.; and in one of its cham-
bers we find a kind of list of Kings, which contains
the names of two Memphites, and one Elephantinite,
in the following order: Shura; Num-shufu; Num-
shufu ; Nufr-ar-ka-ra * ; and in another part of the
same tomb we find a similar list, with the names of
two Elephantinites and one Memphite, thus: Nufr-
ar-ka-ra; Shura; Seser-en-raf. The only peculiarities
in these lists is the repetition of the name of Num-
shufu in the first of them.
The reason for the manner in which these lists are
arranged seems to me to be obvious. The first indi-
cates that Nufr-ar-ka-ra was partly contemporary with
Shura, and partly with Num-shufu; and the second,
that Shura was partly contemporary with Nufr-ar-ka-ra.
There are two Kings in Manetho's lists to whom Nufr-
ar-ka-ra might be supposed to correspond, besides the
Elephantinite Nephercheres; namely, Nephercheres,
the seventh King of the Second Dynasty, of Thinites,
and Sebercheres, supposed by some to be a copyist's
mistake for Nephercheres, the seventh King of the
Fourth Dynasty, of Memphites. Neither of these
Kings, however, can be Nufr-ar-ka-ra; for the former
is recognised in the Tablet of Abydos, and the latter
is too long after the Suphises to be mentioned in the
tomb in which these lists occur. Further, we find
traces of Elephantinite race in the names of the Kings
of the Fourth Dynasty; for in the name of Num-
shufu, the first syllable, Num, or Nev, is the name of
the tutelary god of Elephantine; and we cannot fail
* Plate IV., No. 3. t Plate IV., No. 2.