s added.

[15] It seems that "acrophony" (giving to a sign the value of the
first letter of its name) was indulged in only by priests of the
latest age, inventing fantastic modes of writing their "vain
repetitions" on the temple walls.

[16] In the prehistoric age when absolute dating is out of reach a
"sequence dating" by means of the sequence of types in pottery,
tools, &c., has been proposed in Petrie's _Diospolis Parva_, pp. 4 et
sqq. The earliest prehistoric graves yet known are placed at S.D. 30,
and shortly before S.D. 80 the period of the first historic dynasty
is entered.

[17] Ten-day periods as subdivisions of the month can be traced as
far back as the Middle Kingdom. The day consisted of twenty-four
hours, twelve of day (counted from sunrise to sunset) and twelve of
night; it began at sunrise.

[18] For the "sequence" dating (S.D.) used by archaeologists for the
prehistoric period see above (S Art and Archaeology, ad init. note).

[19] Reisner (_Early Dynastic Cemeteries_, p. 126), from his work in
the prehistoric cemeteries, believes that Egypt was too uncivilized
at that early date to have performed this scientific feat.

[20] The history of Hatshepsut has been very obscure, and the
mutilations of her cartouches have been variously accounted for.
Recent discoveries by M. Legrain at Karnak and Prof. Petrie at Sinai
have limited the field of conjecture. The writer has followed M.
Naville's guidance in his biography of the queen (in T. M. Davis,
_The Tomb of Hatshopsitu_, London, 1906, pp. 1 et seq.), made with
very full knowledge of the complicated data.

[21] This, it may be remarked, is the time vaguely represented by the
Dodecarchy of Herodotus.

[22] Khosrev Pasha afterwards filled several of the highest offices
at Constantinople. He died on the 1st of February 1855. He was a
bigot of the old school, strongly opposed to the influences of
Western civilization, and consequently to the assistance of France
and Great Britain in the Crimean War.

[23] The work was carried out under the supervision of the Frenchman,
Colonel Seve, who had turned Mahommedan and was known in Islam as
Suleiman Pasha. The effectiveness of the new force was first tried in
the suppression of a revolt of the Albanians in Cairo (1823) by six
disciplined Sudanese regiments; after which Mehemet A