ed him to call out his army, and which were
again warehoused after the campaign. The "storehouses" were further
subdivided into rooms or store-chambers,* each reserved for its own
category of objects.

* Ait, Ai. Lefebure has collected a number of passages in
which these storehouses are mentioned, in his notes _Sur
differents mots et noms Egyptiens._ In many of the cases
which he quotes, and in which he recognizes an office of the
State, I believe reference to be made to a trade: many of
the ari ait-afu, "people of the store-chambers for meat,"
were probably butchers; many of the ari ait-hiqItu, "people
of the store-chamber for beer," were probably keepers of
drink-shops, trading on their own account in the town of
Abydos, and not _employes_ attached to the exchequer of
Pharaoh or of the ruler of Thinis.

It would be difficult to enumerate the number of store-chambers in
the outbuildings of the "Storehouse of Provisions"--store-chambers for
butcher's meat, for fruits, for beer, bread, and wine, in which were
deposited as much of each article of food as would be required by the
court for some days, or at most for a few weeks. They were brought there
from the larger storehouses, the wines from vaults, the oxen from their
stalls, the corn from the granaries. The latter were vast brick-built
receptacles, ten or more in a row, circular in shape and surmounted by
cupolas, but having no communication with each other. They had only two
openings, one at the top for pouring in the grain, another on the ground
level for drawing it out; a notice posted up outside, often on the
shutter which closed the chamber, indicated the character and quantity
of the cereals within. For the security and management of these, there
were employed troops of porters, store-keepers, accountants, "primates"
who superintended the works, record-keepers, and directors. Great nobles
coveted the administration of the "storehouses," and even the sons
of kings did not think it derogatory to their dignity to be entitled
"Directors of the Granaries," or "Directors of the Armoury." There was
no law against pluralists, and more than one of them boasts on his tomb
of having held simultaneously five or six offices. These storehouses
participated like all the other dependencies of the crown, in that
duality which characterized the person of the Pharaoh. They would
be called in common parlance, the Storehouse o