[Footnote 49]: The hair cut off as a sign of mourning was usually laid in the tomb of the dead.
[Footnote 50]: i.e., a wreath of clover.
[Footnote 51]: Not the Byblos of Syria (Jebêl) but the papyrus swamps of the Delta.
[Footnote 52]: A son of the first Egyptian king, who died in his early youth; see Herodotus, ii. 79.
[Footnote 53]: The horse does not appear to have been known in Egypt before the XVIIIth dynasty; this portion of Plutarch's version of the history of Osiris must, then, be later than B.C. 1500.
[Footnote 54]: This remarkable hymn was first made known by Chabas, who published a translation of it, with notes, in Revue Archéologique, Paris, 1857, t. xiv. p. 65 ff.
[Footnote 55]: i.e., the souls of Osiris and Rā.
[Footnote 56]: See von Berginaun in Aeg Zeitschrift, 1880, p. 88 ff.
[Footnote 57]: Each company of the gods contained three trinities or triads.
[Footnote 58]: See Chapters of Coming Forth by Day (translation), p. 11.