The next king, according to the King Lists, was called =Semerkha=, or Ḥu, or Nekht, or =Semsu=, the Semempses of Manetho. (For objects bearing his name see Table-case L and Wall-cases on Landing.) 𓅃𓉘𓐼𓈎𓂝𓐽𓊂 QĀ. This dynasty was brought to a close by the reign of a king called =Qebḥ= in the later Lists; the correct form of his name is, however, =Sen=, and his Horus name is =Qā=. (For objects bearing his name see Table-case L and Wall-cases on Landing.) Second Dynasty. From the city of This. _About_ B.C. 4133. The first king of the IInd dynasty was =Khā-Sekhemui=, 𓈍𓌂𓌂 other names of whom were =Betchau=, Neter-baiu, and =Besh=. From the reliefs on the statues of this king which were recovered from his tomb at Abydos, we may assume that Besh fought many battles, and conquered his enemies. From a design on one of his vases we learn that he was probably the first to enclose his personal name within the _Shennu_ sign 𓍶, which was afterwards elongated into the _cartouche_ 𓍷 when royal names became longer. In this design we see the vulture-goddess Nekhebit uniting the South and the North, and holding in one claw the sign 𓍶, with the name Besh written within it thus 𓃀𓐰𓈚. Betchau, or Besh, has been identified by some with Nār-mer. There are no objects bearing the name of Nār-mer in the British Museum, but a good cast of a green slate shield of Betchau is exhibited in Wall-case 10 on the Landing of the North-West Staircase. The designs on this remarkable object are reproduced in the _Guide to the First and Second Egyptian Rooms_, p. 40 ff. The objects found in the tomb of Besh prove that the Egyptians were, even at this early period, skilled in stone-cutting, statue-making, and working in metals, and that their religious and social institutions must have been established for many generations. (See the =copper vases= and wine-jar sealings on the Landing, and the interesting group of objects, fragments of vases, etc., in Table-case L.) Besh was followed by =Ḥetep-Sekhemui= 𓊵𓌂𓌂, of whom we have a fragment of a stone vase (Table-case L, No. 162); and by =Rā-neb= and =En-neter= (see the fragment of a bowl in Table-case L, No. 163). During the reign of Rā-neb, who was also called =Ka-kau=, the worship of the =Apis Bull= of Memphis, the =Mnevis Bull= of Heliopolis, and the =Ram of Mendes= was either reconstituted, or additional shrines were founded or old ones repaired. (For typical figures of these gods see Table-case H, Third Egyptian Room.) After =Uatchnes=, of whom nothing is known, came a king who as the representative of Horus was called =Sekhem-ȧb=, and as the representative of Set, =Perȧbsen=. In Table-case L are a jar-sealing and a fragment of a stone vase, and in the Wall-case on the Landing a fine, hard grey granite stele, inscribed with his =Set name=. [Illustration: Slab from the tomb of Sherȧ, a Priest of the Ka of Senṭ, a king of the IInd dynasty, B.C. 4000. [Vestibule, South Wall, No. 1.]]