[6]. De Morgan, Le tombeau royal de Négadah, p. 172.
[7]. Petrie, Royal Tombs, I, p. 26.
[8]. E.g., Boulac Papyrus, No. 18. A mer khetemu, “Superintendent of the storehouse,” in the land of Zaru is mentioned in the Bologna Papyrus, No. 1086, l. 11.
[9]. Newberry, Rekhmara, Pl. XII.
[10]. Rekhmara, Pl. VII, l. 3.
[11]. See, for instance, Griffith, Kahun Papyri, Pl. XXXVII, “Drawn out by the servant there and sealed with the seal of the servant there,” and cf. numerous entries in Boulac Papyrus, No. 18.
[12]. Mace, in Petrie’s Diospolis Parva, p. 51; and this has been my own experience in the graves that I have opened at Thebes.
[13]. See the description of the sealing up of the sarcophagus chamber of the tomb of Thothmes IV, in Carter and Newberry, The Tomb of Thoutmosis IV, p. xxx, and cf. Wilkinson’s Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians (ed. Birch), Vol. III, p. 436; Herodotus, II, 121; Matthew xxvii, 66.
[14]. For a copy of a sealed decree of the Fifth Dynasty, see Petrie’s Abydos, II, Pl. XVIII. On the walls of two tombs at Siut (one unpublished) are inscribed a number of contracts that were concluded by the nomarchs in order to ensure certain revenues for religious services after death (see Griffith, Siut, Pls. 7 and 8, and cf. Mariette’s Abydos, II, 25, and Jeremiah xxxii, 11.
[15]. Cf. Isaiah xxix, 11; Daniel ix, 24, xii, 49. “Written evidence sealed,” Jeremiah xii, 10, xxxii, 11, 14, 44.