Note 59 — INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF EGYPTIAN SEALS.
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He has been described as a kind of “Keeper of the Signet;” but his rank in the Egyptian State was much higher than that of the Scottish official. It is a position that appears to have been even greater than that of the Roman cura anulis, or “Keeper of the Imperial Seal” (Just., Hist., XLIII, 5).