, the Sanctuary of Ptah at Memphis.

[13.] Âbaba-k ṭer-ek. This is only one of the readings of a formula which had soon become utterly unintelligible to the copyists. Hieratic copies like Louvre 3079, published by M. de Rougé, B.M. 10,257 (Rollin) and Leyden, T. 16, record several conjectural emendations, to which modern scholars might add others, were they so disposed.


[61]. Another reading is Unneferu.

[62]. See [note 1] on chapter 28.

[63]. “حبل non modo funem, sed et in Alcorano saepe foedus significat.” Gesenius, Thesaur in voc. חבל.