Note 1 — Chapter CXXIV
P. Le Page (Peter Le Page) Renouf translation
Hall ,[,, or ḫent, the πρόναος, πρόδομος, ‘Vorsaal,’ first room of a temple or palace. The sense of harîm which has been ascribed to it in certain texts is entirely erroneous. The temple inscriptions (see Brugsch, Zeitschr., 1875, p. 118, and fol., and Mariette, Denderah, I, 6) leave no doubt on the subject. If there were “ladies of the royal antechamber,” it by no means follows that they were wives or concubines of the king, and hall or antechamber convey a very different idea from that of the most reserved portion of the house.[110]
