hiding-place for a performing puppet, of which the wires were worked by a
priest.


[21] That is, the spirits of the North, represented by On (Heliopolis), and
of the South (Khonû).--A.B.E.

[22] At Tanis there seems to have been a close succession of obelisks and
statues along the main avenue leading to the Temple, without the usual
corresponding pylons. These were ranged in pairs; _i.e._, a pair
of obelisks, a pair of statues; a pair of obelisks, a pair of shrines;
and then a third pair of obelisks. See _Tanis_, Part I., by
W.M.F. Petrie, published by the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1884.--A.B.E.

[23] This fact is recorded in the hieroglyphic inscription upon the
obelisks.--A.B.E.

[24] This celebrated tablet, preserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale,
Paris, has been frequently translated, and is the subject of a
valuable treatise by the late Vicomte de Rougé. It was considered
authentic till Dr. Erman, in an admirable paper contributed to the
_Zeitschrift,_ 1883, showed it to have been a forgery concocted
by the priests of Khonsû during the period of the Persian rule in
Egypt, or in early Ptolemaic times. (See Maspero's _Hist. Ancienne
des Peuples de l'Orient_, chap, vi., pp. 287, 288. Fourth
Edition.)--A.B.E.

[25] The Land of Incense, called also in the inscriptions "The Land of
Pûnt," was the country from which the Egyptians imported spices,
precious woods, gums, etc. It is supposed to represent the southern