Note 142 — Chapter CXXVIII
P. Le Page (Peter Le Page) Renouf translation
The importance of this sign is manifest in the Pyramid Text (Merenrā, 634), “N maketh his appearance as King, he hath possession of his and of his throne.”throne.” [Since the above was in print M. Naville has published an inscription of Queen Hatshepsit, in which the remarkable expression occurs three times.
The word written , , but also or (and also without any vowel, though is understood), has determinatives in Pepi I, 635, and Merenrā, 509, which imply the sense of girdle, zone. Hence the sense of neighbourhood, “the men or places round about one.”
