[15] A name often applied to the great river Nile.
[16] The usual Egyptian attitude of respect to a superior was to stand bent slightly forward, holding the arms downward.
[17] The polytheistic Egyptians frequently used the term "God" without specifying any particular deity; perhaps, too, in their own minds they did not define the idea, but applied it simply to some general notion of Divinity.
[18] Punt was the "land of spices" to the Egyptian, and thence, too, the finest incense was brought for the temple services. It included Somaliland in Africa, and the south of Arabia.
[19] This paragraph is very difficult to restore and very doubtful.
[20] I. e., the King Sehetepabra Amenemhat I., whose death is recorded in the next clause.
[21] The king's city, and so throughout the story.
[22] The land of the Temehu was in the Libyan desert on the west of Egypt.
[23] Usertesen I., the son and heir of Amenemhat I., reigned ten years jointly with his father.
[24] I. e., the western edge of Lower Egypt.