=Ȧssȧ=, the next king of importance, worked the quarries in Wâdî Ḥammâmât, near the old high road which ran from Ḳena on the Nile, in Upper Egypt, to a place near the modern Ḳuṣêr (Cosseir) on the Red Sea, and the copper and turquoise mines in the Peninsula of Sinai. He built at Abû-Ṣîr the pyramid called “Nefer” 𓄤𓉴. During the reign of Ȧssȧ a development of trade between Egypt and the Sûdân ensued, and an Egyptian official called Ba-ur-ṭeṭ succeeded in reaching the “Land of the Spirits” and bringing thence a pygmy _ṭenḳ_ 𓂧𓐰𓈖𓎼𓐰𓄔𓁌, whom he gave to the king. The pygmy actually came from the land of Punt, which tradition declares was the original home of the Egyptians. He was employed to dance the “dance of the gods” before the king. It seems to have been the custom in still earlier times to import pygmies from the Sûdân, for skeletons of two were found near the tomb of Semempses, a king of the Ist dynasty, at Abydos. =Unȧs=, the last king of the Vth dynasty, the Onnos of Manetho, carried on the usual mining operations, and, it is said, built a temple to Hathor at Memphis. He is chiefly famous as the builder of the first of a very remarkable series of pyramids at Ṣaḳḳârah, the corridors and chamber walls of which were covered with series of formulae of the greatest value for the study of the Egyptian Religion. The pyramid of Unȧs was about 60 feet high, and the length of each side at the base was 220 feet; in front of its door stood a portico which rested on granite columns with palm-leaf capitals. One of these columns now stands in the Egyptian Vestibule, No. =50=. (For an alabaster vase from his mummy chamber, inscribed with his name and titles 𓍹𓐼𓅭𓐴𓇳𓃹𓐰𓈖𓇋𓋴𓐽𓍺, see Wall-case 138 in the Fourth Egyptian Room, No. 57.) The funerary reliefs of the Vth dynasty are very fine. Those worthy of note are: a “false door,” from the tomb of =Khnemu-ḥetep=, a councillor and libationer and an officer of the palace of =Userkaf= (Egyptian Vestibule, No. =51=); a portion of the façade of the tomb of =Neka-ānkh=, a priest who ministered in the tomb of =Userkaf= (No. =52=); a massive “false door” from the tomb of =Ȧsȧ-ānkh=, from Ṣaḳḳârah (No. =53=); a slab sculptured in low relief with a figure of the royal kinswoman =Thethȧ= (No. =60=); and a slab from the tomb of =Khnemu-ḥetep=, a chief of Nekheb (No. =61=). Sixth Dynasty. From Memphis. _About_ B.C. 3300. The kings of this dynasty were:— 1. =Tetȧ.= 2. =Userka-Rā.= 3. =Rā-meri Pepi I.= 4. =Mer-en-Rā.= 5. =Nefer-ka-Rā Pepi II.= 6. =Mer-en-Rā Tchefau(?)-em-sa-f.=