part IV, pl. 31) represents a boat carrying the Moon-disk, raised upon a

stand.

A personage kneeling behind is supporting the feather of Maāt. The words

⁂⁂⁂, which are written by way of explanation, might give

rise to some misunderstanding were it not for considerations mentioned

in the following note.

2. _The Arm_ ⁂ in chapter 114 has for corresponding word

⁂⁂⁂⁂ in chapter 116 implying that _Arm_ is to be taken in

a geographical sense, as when we speak of an ‘arm of the sea’. Now the

pictures which have been spoken of have the words ⁂⁂⁂, ‘arm of

the Urnes,’ inscribed ever the stream down which the Sun-god takes his

nightly journey.

These pictures have only the value of a commentary on a very ancient

text, but they are at least as old as the earliest papyrus which

contains the text.

3. _Ment’ait_ ⁂⁂⁂, is the ancient reading in chapter 114, but

the later texts have ⁂⁂, _T’ar_. Chapter 116 has

⁂⁂⁂⁂, _Mat’ait_.

4. _Illumined._ The texts are discordant as to the reading. I follow

that of the two old papyri which have ⁂; though this orthography,

however defensible, is somewhat suspicious.

5. _Kasu._ ⁂⁂⁂, the ‘Burial Place,’ was the metropolis

of the 14th Nome of Southern Egypt. Dendera is called

⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ and in more ordinary characters

⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. Like very many other

geographical names, it has the feminine form in ⁂, as well as

the masculine in ⁂.

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Footnote 96:

There is a copy of the chapter in the tomb of Chā-em-hait, which is

our oldest authority. But it is unfortunately mutilated, and all that

can be said is, that if the additional words were once there, they

have been destroyed.

Footnote 97:

The Apis tablets (_Zeitschr._, 1882, p. 22) give the name of a place

_Pa-ḳerḳ-en Ḥor_, which seems to refer to this catastrophe; the Coptic

ⲕⲟⲣϫ, ⲕⲱⲣϫ corresponding to the Greek ἐκκόπτειν, ἐκκλὰν, κατασπᾶσθαι.

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