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[49]. Cf. the title mer net, “Governor of the (Royal) City” (see my Rekhmara, p. 18, and cf. my note in Garstang’s El Arabah, p. 32); khetem is here probably to be understood as signifying the seal par excellence, i.e., the Royal Seal.
[50]. For a mer khetem in (1) the Oryx nome, see Newberry, Beni Hasan, I, Pl. XXX, etc.; (2) the Hare nome, see Newberry, El Bersheh, I, Pl. XXVII; (3) the Siut nome there is a mer khetem em Saut mentioned in an unpublished tomb; (4) the Antaeopolite nome, on an unpublished fragment from the tomb of Uah-ka at Gau.
[51]. See Newberry, Beni Hasan, I, Pl. XXVI.
[52]. Ibid., Pl. XXX, cf. Pl. XIII.
[53]. Ibid., Pl. XXXIII.
[54]. Ibid., Pl. XXIX.
[55]. On the word kha, see the paper in the Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archæology, XXII, pp. 99-105.