2. The later recension speaks of “the Lamp in Annu and the Hammemit in Cherāba.” This reading is already found in a few of the Theban texts. The royal sarcophagus 32 of the British Museum gives the important variant ⁂⁂⁂ = ⁂⁂⁂⁂, whence it follows that ⁂ is phonetically = ⁂. The latter sign has only two known values ⁂⁂⁂ _āḥā_, and ⁂⁂⁂ _āba_. That the latter is the true equivalent of ⁂ is certain, in consequence of the complementary vowels ⁂, which commonly accompany that sign, whether in the word signifying _battle_, or in the name of a place. It is _impossible_ that ⁂⁂⁂ a should be the right reading, and no one has a right to convert ⁂ into a simple ⁂. The well known word ⁂⁂, “strike,” takes the prothetic ⁂, and is found under the form ⁂⁂⁂, in the name of one of the hours of the night.[146] No fresh information is derived from the discovery by M. Daressy of the same word under the form ⁂⁂⁂, that is ⁂⁂⁂, as it should be corrected if cited. To _strike_ and to _fight_ are different words, though they may often be used synonymously, and admit of being substituted one for the other.[147] 3. _He of the strong cord_, ⁂⁂. This is grammatically the subject of the verb _is born_, and I consider it as a compound expression in which the adjective precedes the substantive, as in longimanus. I understand ⁂ as = ⁂⁂⁂ (see _Zeitsch._, 1868, p. 70, and 1870, p. 154, 155). In the later recessions (_e.g._, Todt. 136, and B.M. 32) it is omitted in this place, but not in the passage which follows. 4. _His cable_, ⁂⁂. See Bonomi, _Sarc._ 8 D. and _cf._ a passage in the Pyramid Texts (_Pepi_ I, 413, _Merenrā_ 590) which refers to this or a similar voyage. M. Maspero thus translates it:—“Fais amener à Pepi ta barque sur laquelle naviguent tes purs et quand tu auras reçu ta libation d’eau fraîche sur cette CUISSE DES INDESTRUCTIBLES (the Uārit ⁂⁂⁂ of the Circumpolar Stars), fais naviguer Pepi dans cette barque avec ce cable d’étoffe verte et blanche par lequel l’Œil d’Hor est remorqué,” &c. The Uārit, or _Leg_ (on which see Ch. 74, Note 1) of Nut is mentioned at the end of this chapter. 5. _Rudder_ ⁂⁂⁂ or ⁂⁂⁂. 6. _Machinery_ ⁂⁂⁂. The word has disappeared from the later texts and been replaced by various conjectural emendations of the scribes. 7. _The Kaf_, ⁂⁂⁂⁂, one of the divinities in form of apes. Etymologically the word signifies “the _hot_ one.” 8. _Seḳ-ḥra_, ⁂⁂⁂⁂ is the more common reading, but ⁂⁂⁂ also occurs and so does ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. I cannot remember where I found ⁂⁂⁂⁂ (_P.S.B.A._ VI, 191) which would identify this divinity with Thoth. 9. _The Maāt_, the series of phenomena occurring in strict conformity with Law, that is with the laws of Nature. 10. _Lion forms_, ⁂ phonetically ⁂⁂, in most of the papyri. Some of the words which follow are evidently in very corrupt condition. 11. _Every Dawn_, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. ----- Footnote 145: _Sic._ Footnote 146: