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The name of Soris, the first King of the Fourth

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Dynasty, is, as I have already remarked, found in the
tombs near the Pyramids, and reads " Shura." His
name was also found, by Mr. Perring, in the quarry-
marks of the Northern Pyramid of Aboo-Seer, in the
Memphite Necropolis; and hence it appears that this
was his tomb. We know nothing of the history of
his reign, nor of that of Usercheres, the first King of
the Fifth Dynasty, who reigned about the same time,
and whose name, which reads U-seser-kef, I here give.

The second King of the Fifth Dynasty is called by
Manetho, according to Africanus, Sephres. This can
only be Shaf-ra, or Khaf-ra, whose name is found
in many of the tombs near the Pyramids of El-

Geezeh. Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus call him,
respectively, Chephren, and Kephren; and ascribe to