Note 41 — Part III.
P. Le Page (Peter Le Page) Renouf translation
The text here is quite uncertain. The Turin Todtenbuch has “the fourth hour of the Night and the eighth hour of the Day,” 243which does not agree with any early reading. Cd. has “the fourth hour of the Night and of the Day.” Several papyri have the “second hour of the Night and the third of the Day.” It was in this passage, as written in B.M. 9904, that, in the year 1860, I found the phonetic value of the Egyptian number 3: a discovery first ascribed by Brugsch[134] to Goodwin, and afterwards by others to Brugsch himself.
