Note 57 — INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF EGYPTIAN SEALS.
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It is probable that already at the time of the Eleventh Dynasty there was a Chief Keeper of the (Royal) Seal, for Mariette found at Karnak a monument of a certain Khetŷ, who is described as mer khetem em ta er zer-ef, “Keeper of the (Royal) Seal in the whole land.” Mariette, Karnak, pl. 8 j.) Of this Khetŷ there is a statuette in the Leyden Museum, and he is certainly the same individual as we see represented behind King Antef on one of the rocks of the Shût er Rigal. Under the New Empire we find mentioned once a “Chief Keeper of the Seal of the Great Green Sea,” i.e., of the Mediterranean. (Capart, in Rec. de travaux, XXII, p. 106.)
