Footnote 48: This title should not be confounded with the somewhat similar one [Egyptian **], “Superintendent of the Sealers,” _Beni Hasan_, I, xxx. Nor is it, of course, the same as the [Egyptian **] “Superintendent Storehouses” or “depôts” (Pap. Bologna, 1086, I, 2). It ought also perhaps to be differentiated from [Egyptian **] “Superintendent” or “Keeper of Contracts” or “Records?” although there appear to be several instances where [Egyptian **] equals [Egyptian **]. Footnote 49: _Cf._ the title _mer net_, “Governor of the (Royal) City” (see my _Rekhmara_, p. 18, and _cf._ my note in Garstang’s _El Arabah_, p. 32); _khetem_ is here probably to be understood as signifying _the_ seal _par excellence_, _i.e._, the Royal Seal. Footnote 50: For a _mer khetem_ in (1) the Oryx nome, see Newberry, _Beni Hasan_, I, Pl. XXX, etc.; (2) the Hare nome, see Newberry, _El Bersheh_, I, Pl. XXVII; (3) the Siut nome there is a _mer khetem em Saut_ mentioned in an unpublished tomb; (4) the Antaeopolite nome, on an unpublished fragment from the tomb of Uah-ka at Gau. Footnote 51: See Newberry, _Beni Hasan_, I, Pl. XXVI. Footnote 52: _Ibid._, Pl. XXX, _cf._ Pl. XIII. Footnote 53: _Ibid._, Pl. XXXIII. Footnote 54: _Ibid._, Pl. XXIX. Footnote 55: On the word _kha_, see the paper in the _Proceedings_ of the Society of Biblical Archæology, XXII, pp. 99-105. Footnote 56: See Newberry, _Life of Rekhmara_, Pl. IV, and p. 23, where will be found a plan of the office. Footnote 57: It is probable that already at the time of the Eleventh Dynasty there was a Chief Keeper of the (Royal) Seal, for Mariette found at Karnak a monument of a certain Khetŷ, who is described as _mer khetem em ta er zer-ef_, “Keeper of the (Royal) Seal in the whole land.” Mariette, _Karnak_, pl. 8 j.) Of this Khetŷ there is a statuette in the Leyden Museum, and he is certainly the same individual as we see represented behind King Antef on one of the rocks of the Shût er Rigal. Under the New Empire we find mentioned once a [Egyptian **] “Chief Keeper of the Seal of the Great Green Sea,” _i.e._, of the Mediterranean. (Capart, in _Rec. de travaux_, XXII, p. 106.) Footnote 58: This is seen from many inscriptions: Notably from the rock inscription of Mentu-hetep in the Shût er Rigal; the inscription of Nefer-hetep at Aswan (De Morgan, _Cat._, I, p. 17); the inscriptions of Rekhmara (Newberry, _Rekhmara_, Pl. III, l. 5, etc.); the scene on a slab from the tomb of a High Priest of Memphis, where the Chancellor is represented standing immediately behind the Vezîrs; and from the very powerful position of the Chancellor Baŷ under Ta-usert and Sa-ptah. The position of the Chancellors during the Hyksos period was also of very great importance. Footnote 59: