Note 13 — PREFACE.
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The particulars above summarised may be verified from contracts which a prince (erpā-hā) of Siût concluded with the priests of Anubis under the Tenth or Eleventh Dynasty (discussed by Maspero, Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology VII., p. 6 et seq., Études de Mythologie, I., p. 62 et seq., and Erman, Æg. Zeitschr., 1882, p. 159 ff., the best publication of these inscriptions being that by Griffith, Inscriptions of Siût and Dêr Rîfeh, London, 1889. Similar contracts were made even in the times of the pyramid-building kings: cf. e.g. Lepsius, Denkmäler, II. 3-7; De Rougé, Inscriptions hiéroglyphiques, pl. I.; Mariette, Les Mastabahs, p. 316 et seq.)