[26]. Our own sovereigns, as well as those of most other European States, have been from very early times invested with a ring at their Coronation (see Archaeologia, Vol. III, p. 393), cf. The Coronation Book of Charles V of France, edited by E. S. Dewick, pp. 6, 22 and 33.
[27]. Compare Naville’s Deir El Bahari, III, 60.
[28]. In the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, line 7.
[29]. Book of the Dead, 255.
[30]. Palette of Ptahmes in the Louvre (No. 3026); cf. Pierret, Rec. d’inscriptions inédite, I, p. 93.
[31]. On the reading, see supra, p. 5.
[32]. We find, for instance, those of the per seten, or “Royal domain,” A.Z., 1888, p. 90; of the per zet, or wakf, Petrie, Medûm, Pl. XIII; of the at af, “department of meat,” Mariette, Mon. Abyd., 290, 308; and many others.
[33]. See L., D., II, 4, where he carries a box of linen; cf. my Beni Hasan, I, Pl. IV, and II, Pl. XIII, where there is a khetemu ne ḥenket, “Seals of the linen.” In Beni Hasan, I, Pl. XXIX, we find the corresponding feminine title
, a woman who apparently had charge of the harîm, or perhaps was a confidential female servant. A title