FOOTNOTES
[1] See Journal de Trevoux, June, 1704; Caylus, Antiq. Egypt., tom. I, plate 21; Denon, Travels, plates 136 and 137; and Description de l"egypte, tom. II, plate 64 ff.
[2] Copie Figuree d"un Rouleau de Papyrus trouve a Thebes dans un tombeau des Rois. Paris, XIII-1805. This papyrus is nearly 30 feet in length and was brought to Stra.s.sburg by a paymaster in Napoleon"s Army in Egypt called Poussielgue, who sold it to M. Cadet.
[3] [Hieroglyphs].
[4] The longest papyrus in the world is Papyrus Harris No. 1 (Brit. Mus. No. 9999); it measures 133 feet by 1 foot 4 1/2 inches.
[5] Pyramid of Pepi I, ll. 664 and 662.
[6] I.e., Truth, or Law, in a double aspect.
[7] A name of Osiris.
[8] I.e., the "Lord to the uttermost limit of everything," or G.o.d.
[9] He was according to one legend the firstborn son of Osiris.
[10] I.e., I have kept the Moral and Divine Law.
[11] I.e., the "Beneficent Being," a t.i.tle of Osiris.