[35] The literature and traditions of these early Chaldean states were preserved and highly prized by the Assyrians, who appear to have had none of their own.
[36] This barge was presented in the reign of Thothmes iv.
[37] These two pictures are given in Nile Gleanings.
[38] It is comparatively easy to understand the choice of certain animals as symbolic ([see on p. 198]), but it is impossible to comprehend how an ostrich feather came to be the emblem of Ma, goddess of truth, or a shuttle the sign of Neith, goddess of wisdom. A certain resemblance in name seems sometimes to have suggested the symbol.
[39] Honorific or crown name of Thothmes iii.
[40] This valley lay west of the pyramids in the Libyan desert, and was a favourite resort of sportsmen for hunting lions and other wild animals.
[41] This district of ‘Babylon’ was that where Cairo now stands.
[42] See the Nile Gleanings, where the portraits of the sovereigns are given. If Khu-en-aten’s is a caricature even, it is a caricature founded on a different type of countenance.
[43] From a chapter in the Ritual.
[44] The oval in which the royal names are always inscribed.