[35] Kemur was one of the Bitter Lakes in the line of the present Suez Canal.
[36] Possibly one of the three persons proposed as hostages to Egypt below, p. 5246. The word translated "alien" is uncertain. It may mean a kind of consul or mediator between the tribes for the purposes of trade, etc., or simply a "sheikh." Sanehat himself, returned from Egypt in his old age, is called by the same title, p. 5248.
[37] Or possibly Adim, i. e., Edom; and so throughout.
[38] Later called Upper Retenu: they were the inhabitants of the high lands of Palestine. Ammi was a divine name in Ancient Arabia, and the name Ammi-anshi, found in South-Arabian inscriptions, perhaps of 1000 B.C., is almost identical with that of the king who befriended Sanehat.
[39] These words appear to have been omitted by the scribe.
[40] I. e., What does Egypt do without the king?
[41] The goddess of destruction.
[42] Lit, "stick."
[43] A metaphor for the "policy," "will," of a king or god.
[44] Meaning "reeds" (?).