of the 14th Nome of Southern Egypt. Dendera is called
⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ and in more ordinary characters
⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. Like very many other
geographical names, it has the feminine form in ⁂, as well as
the masculine in ⁂.
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Footnote 96:
There is a copy of the chapter in the tomb of Chā-em-hait, which is
our oldest authority. But it is unfortunately mutilated, and all that
can be said is, that if the additional words were once there, they
have been destroyed.
Footnote 97:
The Apis tablets (_Zeitschr._, 1882, p. 22) give the name of a place
_Pa-ḳerḳ-en Ḥor_, which seems to refer to this catastrophe; the Coptic
ⲕⲟⲣϫ, ⲕⲱⲣϫ corresponding to the Greek ἐκκόπτειν, ἐκκλὰν, κατασπᾶσθαι.
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