Chapter 64

, note 13). The East is known as _Ta-ur_ or _Ta-urit_. The royal Ritual at Abydos (Mariette, I. 37) says ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. And as one of the values of the sign ⁂ is _ta_ as in ⁂⁂ (Louvre, B. 14), I feel sure that we should read _Ta-ur_ (or in the feminine _Ta-urit_) rather than _Nif-ur_ or _Nif-urit_, even in such passages as those quoted _supra_ in