The Pharaoh and the Priest: An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt
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Transcriber's Note
Punctuation errors have been repaired.
Hyphenation, accent usage and capitalisation has been made consistent.
Page 218 has two footnote markers pointing to the same footnote. Thetranscriber has duplicated the footnote for ease of reference.
There are many variations in usage of units of measurement, for example,metres, yards, kilometres and miles are all used in different places.These are all preserved as printed.
There is some variation in the naming of months, and in their givencorrespondence to English names of months, as follows:
Phamenoth and Famenut appear as variable spellings, both referring to December-January.
Mechir is also given as corresponding to December-January.
Pharmuthi and Farmuti appear as variable spellings, both referring to January-February.
Pachons is also given as corresponding to January-February.
Paoni is given as corresponding to both March-April and June-July.
Epiphi and Epifi appear as variable spellings.
Mesori and Mesore appear as variable spellings.
These variations are preserved as printed. The exception is the singleinstance of Paophi, which was amended to match the high prevalence ofthe Paofi spelling as follows:
Page 183--Paophi amended to Paofi--"... in the middle of the month of Paofi the prince gave command ..."
Other variable spelling has been made consistent where there was aprevalence of one form over the other, or where one version could beconfirmed from an alternative, reliable source, including the Polishedition of the book, as follows:
Page 6--Sem-Amen-Herhor amended to San-Amen-Herhor--"... San-Amen-Herhor, the high priest of Amon ..."
Page 7--Sem Amen-Herhor amended to San-Amen-Herhor--"... San-Amen-Herhor, high priest of the great sanctuary of Amon ..."
Page 61--Neha-Ment amended to Neha-Chent--"... in the provinces of Takens, Ses, Neha-Chent, Neha-Pechu, ..."
Page 113--Ezekiel amended to Ezechiel--"... and saw that the overseer of the workmen, Ezechiel, son of Reuben, ..."
Page 134--Cheran amended to Cherau--"... but the cities, Sochem, On, Cherau, Turra, Tetani, ..."
Page 157--Tanecha amended to Taneha--"In the name of the Almighty and Eternal--Amorul, Taneha, ..."
Page 360--Teremethis amended to Terenuthis--"... and even from Terenuthis inhabitants began to flee."
Page 461--Adonay amended to Adonai--"Amorul, Taneha, Latisten, Rabur, Adonai have pity on me ..."
Page 475--Sotis amended to Sothis--"Rise, as radiant as Isis, rise as Sothis rises ..."
Page 479--Cham-Sam-merer-amen-Rameses-Neter-haq-an amended to Cham-Sem-Merer-Amen-Rameses-Neter-haq-an--"... may thou live through eternity Cham-Sem-Merer-Amen-Rameses-Neter-haq-an."
Page 562--Tinis amended to Tanis--"Just there, side by side,
stood Tanis and Abydos, ..."
Page 593--Sebek amended to Sebak--"... he made offerings to Horus, the god of light, and to Sebak, the spirit of darkness."
Page 618--Emsuchs amended to Emsuch--"... also the chiefs of the provinces of Abs, Horti and Emsuch."
The following typographic errors have been repaired:
Page vi--alway amended to always--"... with the blandishments and physical pleasures which always attend it, ..."
Page 118--he amended to the--"... side of the oxen a driver with a short club, ..."
Page 231--sprits amended to spirits--"... and when they had driven away evil spirits, ..."
Page 290--man amended to men--"... then he chased after the dart men, who vexed him by pricking."
Page 475--milleniums amended to millenniums--"... had not closed its eyes for one instant during millenniums, ..."
Page 596--forgot amended to forget--"But be pleased not to forget ..."
Page 651--depised amended to despised--"I have secured everything--I alone--I, the despised priest of Set!"
The frontispiece illustrations has been moved to follow the titlepage. Other illustrations have been moved where necessary so that theyare not in the middle of a paragraph. Illustration captions have beenadded from the list of illustrations for the convenience of thereader.
A table of contents has been added by the transcriber for theconvenience of the reader.