Chris Tedder Wrote:
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> Verner on Neferirkare's temple archives:
>
> "What defect can we find in an archive in which a
> scribe notes that a chest in the storehouse
> contains a single pellet of natron, which was
> commonly used in the daily ceremonies."
FWIW, the requirement of chewing upon a pellet of natron, called also zmin, is specifically called for in the Daily Ritual at the Temple of Seti I at Abydos, in the 19th Dynasty.
HTH.
Katherine Griffis-Greenberg
Doctoral Candidate
Oriental Institute
Doctoral Programme in Oriental Studies [Egyptology]
Oxford University
Oxford, United Kingdom