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The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians

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Paints, 6

Palermo Stone, 99

Palestine, 254

Palette, 2, 6

Panopolis, 151

Panther skins, 212

Paper, Egyptian, 4

Papyrus, 4, 191

—how made into paper, 5

—swamps, 88

Parchment, 4, 7

Pasherenptah, 152

Pa-Sui, 88

Pāt beings, 206, 218

Patchetku, 140

Pautti, 57, 68, 222, 223

Pectoral amulet, 147

Pellegrini, 100

Pe, 43

Pen, quill, or steel, 7

Pen-Amen, 191, 192

Pepi I, 9, 18, 19, 24, 127

—II, 9, 133

Perfefa, 170

Perfumer, 243

Per-Metchet, 117-19

Pernebtepahet, 117

Per-pek, 119

Per-Rehu, 79

Persea Tree, 54

Per Sekhem Kheper Rā, 117

Perseverance, 230

Pert, 32, 80, 101, 153

Pesh-Kef, 13

Pet, 19

Pe-Tep, 43, 92

Peta-Bast, 152, 153

Petamennebtnesttaui, 124

Peten, 157

Petet, 88, 89

Pharaoh, 93, 127, 189, 202

Pharaohs, 71

Pharmuthi, 253

Philae, 102

Phœnicia, 108

Phœnix, 45

Piānkhi invades Egypt, 116 ff.

Picture writing, 1

Pillow amulet, 43

Planets, 62

Pleasure, 243

Ploughing, 197

Poetical compositions, 241

Polisher, 6

Pomegranate, 241

Pool of the South, 54

Potsherds, 7

Power of Powers, 23

Prayers, 41

—for the dead, 12

Priests, funerary, 9

Prisse d'Avennes, 92

Prophets, Hebrew, 200

Ptah, 25, 43, 60, 67, 70, 84, 111, 121, 151, 152, 153, 214, 219, 220, 248

Ptah-hetep, 225, 228

—Precepts of, 224

Ptah-Seker-Osiris, 40

Ptah-Seker-Tem, 45

Ptah-Shepses, 126

Ptolemaïs, 151

Ptolemy II, 98

—Philopator, 149

Puarma, 117, 224

Pumpkins, 209

Punt, 113, 134, 135, 147, 164, 211, 214, 215

Purastau, 112

Pygmy, 133, 134

Pylons of Tuat, 42

Pyramid, the Great, 242

—Texts, 9, 38

Pyramids, 36, 238

—futility of, 232

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