Abbreviations

ABBREVIATIONS

Aegyptische Inschriften Berlin (1913) Aegyptische Inschriften aus den Königlichen Museen zu Berlin, 1 CT Coffin texts, as edited by de Buck (1935–61) KRI Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions (1975–90) LEM Gardiner, Late-Egyptian Miscellanies (1937) LES Gardiner, Late-Egyptian Stories (1932) N (except as noted below) Name; replaces a name in the Egyptian text Pyramid text paragraph numbers: M Version found in the pyramid of Merienre (Mrj-n-ra) N Version found in the pyramid of Pepi II Neferkare (Nfr-kA-ra) Nt Version found in the pyramid of Queen Neith (Jéquier 1933) Ou Version found in the pyramid of Queen Oudjebten (Jéquier 1928) P Version found in the pyramid of Pepi I (Ppjj) Pyr. § Paragraph number (1–2217) in Sethe’s edition (1908–22), as opposed to the spell numbers (1–714) (PT in Edel 1955/64) T Version found in the pyramid of Teti (&tj) W Version found in the pyramid of Unas (Wnjs) Urkunden 1 Old Kingdom documents (Sethe 1932–33) Urkunden 4 Dynasty 18 documents (Sethe and Helck 1906–58)

SYMBOLS Marks the supplement, supplementary class, or contradictory of the class below the stroke. For example, if s is the class of sheep, then s

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[ ] Enclose text that, while completely lost, can be restored with reasonable confidence […] Mark places where text is completely lost and cannot be restored with reasonable confidence 〈〉 Enclose text that, while absent from the original (for example, because the scribe mistakenly omitted it), can be restored { } Enclose text wrongly included in the original that needs to be deleted, for example because the scribe presumably mistakenly wrote it out twice