_E.g._, _Boulac Papyrus_, No. 18. A _mer khetemu_, “Superintendent of the storehouse,” in the land of Zaru is mentioned in the Bologna Papyrus, No. 1086, l. 11. Footnote 9: Newberry, _Rekhmara_, Pl. XII. Footnote 10: _Rekhmara_, Pl. VII, l. 3. Footnote 11: See, for instance, Griffith, _Kahun Papyri_, Pl. XXXVII, “Drawn out by the servant there and sealed with the seal of the servant there,” and _cf._ numerous entries in _Boulac Papyrus_, No. 18. Footnote 12: Mace, in Petrie’s _Diospolis Parva_, p. 51; and this has been my own experience in the graves that I have opened at Thebes. Footnote 13: See the description of the sealing up of the sarcophagus chamber of the tomb of Thothmes IV, in Carter and Newberry, _The Tomb of Thoutmosis IV_, p. xxx, and _cf._ Wilkinson’s _Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians_ (ed. Birch), Vol. III, p. 436; Herodotus, II, 121; Matthew xxvii, 66. Footnote 14: For a copy of a sealed decree of the Fifth Dynasty, see Petrie’s _Abydos_, II, Pl. XVIII. On the walls of two tombs at Siut (one unpublished) are inscribed a number of contracts that were concluded by the nomarchs in order to ensure certain revenues for religious services after death (see Griffith, _Siut_, Pls. 7 and 8, and _cf._ Mariette’s _Abydos_, II, 25, and Jeremiah xxxii, 11. Footnote 15: _Cf._ Isaiah xxix, 11; Daniel ix, 24, xii, 49. “Written evidence sealed,” Jeremiah xii, 10, xxxii, 11, 14, 44. Footnote 16: See Professor Sayce, in Petrie’s _Hawara, Biahmu and Arsinoe_, p. 29. Footnote 17: See above, p. 22, note 1. Footnote 18: Compare 1 Kings xxi, 8, and Esther iii, 10-12. Footnote 19: _P.S.B.A._, XIV, 436, and XV, 307. Footnote 20: Gurob Papyri, in Griffith’s _Kahun Papyri_, XXXIX, 1, 6. Footnote 21: Ridgeway, _Journal of Hellenic Studies_, Vol. VIII, p. 158, and Vol. IX, p. 30 _et seq._ Footnote 22: _Cf._ Mommsen, _Hist. of Rome_ (English edition), Vol. I, p. 203. Footnote 23: The ox being _par excellence_ the _pecus_ of Italy. Footnote 24: _Rhind Mathematical Papyrus_, entry No. 67. Footnote 25: _Cf._ “Sealing with the Signet of the King,” Daniel vi, 17; Esther iii, 12; viii, 8, 10; 1 Kings, xxi, 8. Footnote 26: Our own sovereigns, as well as those of most other European States, have been from very early times invested with a ring at their Coronation (see _Archaeologia_, Vol. III, p. 393), _cf._ _The Coronation Book of Charles V of France_, edited by E. S. Dewick, pp. 6, 22 and 33. Footnote 27: Compare Naville’s _Deir El Bahari_, III, 60. Footnote 28: In the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, line 7. Footnote 29: _Book of the Dead_, 255. Footnote 30: Palette of Ptahmes in the Louvre (No. 3026); _cf._ Pierret, _Rec. d’inscriptions inédite_, I, p. 93. Footnote 31: On the reading, see _supra_, p. 5. Footnote 32: