Note 14 — INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF EGYPTIAN SEALS.

For a copy of a sealed decree of the Fifth Dynasty, see Petrie’s Abydos, II, Pl. XVIII. On the walls of two tombs at Siut (one unpublished) are inscribed a number of contracts that were concluded by the nomarchs in order to ensure certain revenues for religious services after death (see Griffith, Siut, Pls. 7 and 8, and cf. Mariette’s Abydos, II, 25, and Jeremiah xxxii, 11.