Note 2 — INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF EGYPTIAN SEALS.
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khetem, “a seal,” khetem, “to close,” or “to seal up.” In Hebrew the word is חֹתָם, which survives in the Arabic, خَاتِمٌ, khatim, “a signet,” or “signet ring.” The determinatives and represent a cylinder-seal, with string for suspension; Petrie, Medûm, p. 33; cf. p. 45, figs. 18, 19, of this volume, and Griffith, Beni Hasan, III, p. 15. The intermediate form between these two signs is found in sculptures in the tomb of Tahutihetep at Bersheh (Newberry, El Bersheh, I, Pl. XX).
