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Mar.6] SOCIETYOF BIBLICAL ARCH/EOLOGY. [1894.

But the observation of the variants Ifl ^ \\ *+* ,* | W ^"^ Q

\\ t pointed indubitablyto the word knmt[a\,in Ppaa I, 776 :

I "*!>«. 1 .wvw< °°° 1 «*w-Q*tfV

I ">55,~~ ,wwvn-CtftfHi l l /www 000

wherethe duplicate, Mrnra, 772, has (I jN^ (perhapsthe

resultof a misread hieraticgroup.) The parallelism with adnw (the

determinativeis strange), and the occurrence of "". *^\ Q above

the picture of one of three apes,Diimichen, Temp, ins.,I, 21,

suggests that we have here the name of a peculiar speciesof ape.

One of the 42 Assessors of Osiris is likewise named | ^\

Ixl(var.|).t

To discern the primary meaningof the root knmis not quite

easy. The phrasePpaaI, 408 = Mrnra 584 ; | 1 1 v\ a v V

woven-raiment,"and the fact that the bearer of the title in question

is sometimes§ dressedin a skin, while the priestly title Hi e» \\ ,

m ^\ seems, lateron, to imply that costume always,make

knm,"to bear a hide," "to be covered, clothed,"not improbable.
However,thereis no proof thatthesetwo titles are identical ;

• Rec. XIII,72, K.I.H., 304.

• L.D. II, 88 a. The variantsare collected by Prof. Lushington,Transac
  tions,VII,366.
  X Naville, T.B.II, 303.
  § Mastaba 167,218,249. Butthis proves little;a skin^forms partof the
  ceremonialdressof several offices,e.g.,that of the | v^. Cf. too the ancient

title-g^j-jJ * ^ and the use of the words J ^) IqI andj^ ^ (e.g., P. I,
169,ib. 193 - P. II, 918.).
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