[78] Cf. E. de Rougé, “Notice des principaux monuments,” p. 82.

[79] Sokari (Σώχαρις of the fragment of Cratinus the Younger, “Fragm. Comicor. græcorum,” edition Didot) was the god of the dead at Memphis, as Osiris was at Abydos; so they were soon identified one with the other, Sokar-Osiri, and with Phtah, Phtah-Sokari, Phtah-Sokar-Osiri. Here the scribe, who first took the three sacred names as belonging to one same god whom he qualified as Prince of Eternity in the singular, later regarded them as belonging to three different gods, and used the plural pronoun, SE, variant of SEN: “to whom THEY give” instead of “to whom HE gives.”

[80] The figure to which it was fastened is reproduced in Leemans, “Egyptian Monuments in the Museum of Antiquities of Holland at Leyden,” Part I, Pl. XXIV; cf. Chabas, “Notice sommaire des papyrus égyptiens,” p. 19.

[81] The facsimile of the text is in Leemans, “Monuments,” Part II, Pl. CLXXXIII-CLXXXIV, and is translated and annotated in Maspero, “Etudes égyptiennes,” vol. i., pp. 145–59.

[82] Extract from the Revue de l’art ancien et moderne, 1905, vol. xvii, p. 403.

[83] See the Chapter on the little lady Touî, [pp. 183–189].

[84] Published in La Nature, 1895, vol. lii., pp. 211–14.

[85] “The Adventure of Satni-Khamois with the Mummies,” in G. Maspero, “Les contes populaires de l’Egypte ancienne,” 4th edition, p. 146.

[86] See [pp. 172–174].

[87] See Chapter XVIII, [pp. 172–177].