[42] The second name of Amonhotep III., Akhnaton’s father.
[43] The second name of Thothmes IV., Akhnaton’s grandfather.
[44] The ater corresponds to the Greek schoinos, and the khe is the schoenium of 100 cubits, 40 khe making one ater.
[45] See [note on p. 178].
[46] Davies, Amarna, I. 45.
[47] The idea is that the Aton does not die as dies the sunlight.
[48] Probably by royal descent is meant.
[49] In Egyptian this title reads Pa shera nefer en pa Aton. In the tomb of a certain Amonhotep, at El Assasîf, temp. Amonhotep III., the deceased Amonhotep I. is called Pa shera nefer en Amon.
[50] So Prof. Breasted translates the Egyptian sehetep, though it would be possible to give it other interpretations.
[51] Cf. such expressions as “When thou settest they die,” and others used in Akhnaton’s hymns.