10. Over the head of the snake.

That in his abode, there may not be any power, any judge,

any implorer.

[Footnote 1: Twenty hins are equal to 60 litres, 13-1/4 gallons.]

[Footnote 2: Great U, the standard agrarian measure.]

[Footnote 3: The country is unknown; the river Zirzirri is also mentioned

elsewhere.]

[Footnote 4: This name signifies, "In the Pyramid he will increase."]

[Footnote 5: The valuations of the estates are made by the quantity of

corn required to seed them, as it is the case in rabbinical literature,

where the unity is a beth-sea, or the surface seeded by a sea. Therefore

the epha of the king (royal epha) is quite in its place: the epha is

varying from 32 to 36 pints.

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