The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo Nilous

Footnotes

58:1

I. Inkstand: the ink and reeds, with one of which Thoth is writing, are placed in the cavities of the inkstand.

II. A royal scribe.

III. Thoth, the sacred scribe, is usually in this position, behind Osiris in the judgment of the dead.

59:1 SBO in Coptic denotes learning.—Champ.

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