is also one of the names given to the Nile.


[140]. Cf. the Hymn to Osiris in the Bibl. Nationale, the Hymn of Tunrei (Mariette, Mon. div., pl. 57), and an inscription copied by Mariette from the temple of Ptah at Memphis (Mon. div., pl. 28 e). There are plenty others of the same kind.

[141]. See Mariette, Mon. div., pl. 61, where each of the jackals is surmounted with the Eye and bears the name Ȧnpu.

[142]. The importance of this sign is manifest in the Pyramid Text (Merenrā, 634), “N maketh his appearance as King, he hath possession of his

and of his throne.”[throne.”] [Since the above was in print M. Naville has published an inscription of Queen Hatshepsit, in which the remarkable expression