2. _Presenteth itself_, ⁂⁂. This Egyptian verb is always expressive of activity, and perhaps ought never to be translated _being_. ⁂ are ‘things which are,’ but ⁂⁂ are ‘things which spring forth’ ‘come to light.’ 3. The oldest text (which is here the best authority) does not give the dimensions of the hill, but only of the serpent. The earliest papyri give the dimensions of both, but make the hill so absurdly small that the serpent could not rest upon it. Later papyri beginning with _Pf_ have corrected the texts so as to give the hill a length of 300 cubits, or ⁂ (each of which is 100 cubits long). They omit the statement that the cubit in question is of 7½ palms (the Royal cubit being of 7 palms), and also the interesting mention of the ⁂⁂⁂ “balance (or measurement) of the earth.” The relation of this ‘balance’ to the rest of the sentence is not clear, because the MSS. differ as to the preposition which precedes. The Papyrus of Nebseni gives the hill 300 cubits in breadth. The _Todtenbuch_ of Turin reads 370 ⁂ in length, and 140 cubits in breadth. 4. The serpent’s name is not mentioned in chapter 111, nor is it in the earliest text. But in chapter 149 the usual name is ⁂⁂⁂, more fully written ⁂⁂ in the Papyrus of Nebseni. The determinative ⁂ commonly attached to the name of Âpepi, expresses the meaning ‘sword smitten,’ ‘shot with swords,’ ξιφόκτονος. We might otherwise have understood the term in the sense of ξιφοκτόνος, ‘slayer with swords.’ The Papyrus of Sutimes _Pd_ calls the serpent ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ ‘knife-wounded.’ The proper name ⁂⁂⁂⁂, also written ⁂⁂⁂, _Māṭes_, an epithet of Âpepi, or of Sutu, also means “pierced with swords.” But the expression itself seems sometimes to be found in the active sense, “piercing like a sword.” 5. _Close of Day_, when daylight has come to ‘a _stand_’ ⁂⁂⁂. This is the reading of the papyri. The oldest reading is ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ ‘at the time of sunset.’ 6. The earliest text says nothing of this, though it mentions the “prison of Sutech,” in a passage corresponding to what the papyri include in the ‘Words of Power’ which follow. The Turin _Todtenbuch_ says that, “Sutu is put into his prison, and that a chain of steel is put upon his neck.” Pictures of the serpent with the chain upon him will be found in Bonomi, _Sarcoph._, plates 10 and 11.[93] There is an evident fusion in this chapter, in its later form at least, as in chapter 39, of the personages of Sutu and Âpepi. 7. _Thy head is veiled._ The ‘veiling of the head,’ and ‘closing of the eyes’ of the sun are of course mythological terms for night time. But the mythological event was celebrated on the festival called ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂.