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Katherine Griffis-Greenberg Wrote :
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>
Khufu (/
Hwy.f-wy Xnmw-xswy.f-wy/) is
> rendered in Greek as
Kéops[y],
> (
Kheops/Cheops), by Diodorus and
> Herodotus, but also in Greek as
Soûphis,
>
Súphis, by Manetho, and even in
> Greek as
Soph(i)e,
Sofe by
> Josephus.
...
More on how Khufu became Suphis/Sothis:
Gundacker 2015 - [
www.academia.edu]. Sec. 5, Pg. 114-117 (PDF 42-45) describes changes from Khufu to Cheops, and then to Suphis, Sothis, Sophe, etc. ...
(See also Richard Holton Pierce, "Egyptian loan-words in ancient Greek," January 1971, Symbolae Osloenses 46(1): 96-107 - [
www.researchgate.net])
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