Chapter 64

of the Book of the Dead.

6. The chapter ends here. The passage which follows in the translation is taken from the Paris papyrus _Pe_.

7. _Patron_, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, a word supposed by some scholars to signify uncle. It occurs on funereal monuments among the designations of persons connected with the deceased, such as brother, sister, nurse. A man may have several bearing the designation, and they are not necessarily children of the same parents (_see e.g._, Mariette, _Cat. d’Abydos_, p. 110, where a man has five _chenemesu_, who cannot all be brothers either of his father or his mother). The word occurs repeatedly in the Prisse papyrus. I am inclined to think it means the legal guardian of a minor.

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