Note note 33 — Part III.
P. Le Page (Peter Le Page) Renouf translation
33. The King who resideth within His own Day. A very doubtful passage at present. The words do not occur in the oldest text of the chapter (that of Nebseni), and they are omitted here in the later recensions. Ad is, as far as I know, the only authority for ; other papyri having merely , which might possibly correspond to the immediately preceding. The Royal tombs have , and one of the papyri has 241 instead of . All this reminds one of an obscure passage in Chapter 115, where Rā is speaking with according to the Text of the Turin Todtenbuch. Goodwin conjectured that King Amhauf belonged ‘to the race of mythical kings who preceded Menes,’ and that his history is ‘a legend somewhat analogous to that of Deucalion and Pyrrha.’ There is a much more probable solution of the matter.
