We find, for instance, those of the _per seten_, or “Royal domain,”
_A.Z._, 1888, p. 90; of the _per zet_, or wakf, Petrie, _Medûm_, Pl.
XIII; of the _at af_, “department of meat,” Mariette, _Mon. Abyd._,
290, 308; and many others.
Footnote 33:
See L., _D._, II, 4, where he carries a box of linen; _cf._ my _Beni
Hasan_, I, Pl. IV, and II, Pl. XIII, where there is a _khetemu ne
ḥenket_, “Seals of the linen.” In _Beni Hasan_, I, Pl. XXIX, we find
the corresponding feminine title [Egyptian **], a woman who apparently
had charge of the harîm, or perhaps was a confidential female servant.
A title [Egyptian **] also occurs very frequently on Egyptian
monuments (Griffith, _Kahun Papyri_, Pl. XII, l. 1; Mariette, _Mon.
Abyd._, 182, 183, 187; Newberry, _El Bersheh_, I, Pls. XX, XXIX,
_etc._). It seems to mean a kind of “confidential seal,” or “privy
purse.”
Footnote 34:
L., _D._, II, 96.
Footnote 35:
L., _D._, II, 103 a.
Footnote 36:
Mariette, _Cat. Abyd._, 855; _The Story of Sanehat_, l. 300; L., _D._,
II, El Assassif, Grab 25, c.d.
Footnote 37:
This title was formerly believed to signify “Treasurer of the King of
Lower Egypt,” but it must be pointed out that _byty_, in the royal
title, meant “He that belongs to the bee,” or perhaps, “the
Bee-keeper.” Bees were the producers of the chief of primitive
luxuries, and the use of honey and the offering of it instead of wine
ought probably to be considered as a survival from a prehistoric state
of society in which wine was unknown (_cf._ _Journal of Hellenic
Studies_, Vol. XV, p. 21). If this meant “Treasurer of the King of
Lower Egypt,” we should expect to find a corresponding [Egyptian **]
“Treasurer of the King of _Upper_ Egypt,” but this title, so far as I
know, never occurs.
Footnote 38:
In the Twelfth Dynasty and later is found the frequently recurring
variant [Egyptian **]. See _A.Z._, 1890, p. 91.
Footnote 39:
Stele of Kuban, l. 11.
Footnote 40:
Thus we read of a [Egyptian **] “Divine Sealer of Amen” under
Alexander (_Rec. de travaux_, XIV, p. 33); and Plutarch (II, 363 B)
speaks of an Egyptian priest, [Greek: sphragistês], who seems to have
been identical with this old Egyptian official. _Cf._ further on this
title, Revillout, in _A.Z._, 1880, p. 71-3.
Footnote 41:
_Rec. de travaux_, XIV, p. 33 and 57.
Footnote 42:
Louvre, C. 13.
Footnote 43:
_Rec. de travaux_, VII, 115.
Footnote 44:
L., _D._, II, 18, 114, etc.
Footnote 45:
L., _D._, II, 115 _b_, 144 _q_, etc.
Footnote 46:
L., _D._, II, 18, 97 _a_, etc.
Footnote 47:
The earliest instance of this title that I know of occurs at Shût er
Rigal, in the scene of King Antef (Eleventh Dynasty) before
Neb-kheru-Ra Mentu-hetep: here the _mer khetem_ stands immediately
behind his sovereign Antef. The title also occurs in a tomb at Kasr es
Sayyad, the date of which may be perhaps a little earlier than the
Shût er Rigal graffito.
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