Dec 05, 2011 13:38
this title usually occurs after those relating to the king's toilet, and not seldom immediately or shortly before the personal name. This position seems to me highly significant. The toilet necessarily precedes the meal, and when the meal is over little remains to be said.
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the title [...], i.e. 'controller of the two seats', though not, I think, actually in the above-quoted series of titles, occurs in close connexion with [...] and the unique variant [...] 'controller of the two seats in the Mansion of Life' (Leps., Dkm., n, 81) encourages us to believe that this office was connected with the throne upon which Pharaoh sat whilst eating. Since even an absolute monarch would be unlikely to occupy two chairs simultaneously, perhaps here the reference is to the respective seats of king and queen, who will have taken their meals together like any other man and wife of exalted birth; however, the usual reference of dual designations to Upper and Lower Egypt counsels caution.
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the [...] appears to have superintended the official 'counting of the cattle', he was concerned not merely with the royal banquets, but with the supplies for the same, a sand-bank surely is a very unlikely source for the best vegetables
(с) Sir A. H. Gardiner. THE MANSION OF LIFE AND THE MASTER OF THE KING'S LARGESS
Блиин... какой английский!!! Это же просто песня! не, по сравнению с этим вся современная египтология никуда не годится. Вот это понятно Сэр, не просто же так даются такие титулы:)
египтяне,
цитата,
бугагашенька,
хавка