** They are designated by the general terms of Shonîtiû, the
"people of the circle," and Qonbîtiû, the "people of the
corner." These words are found in religious inscriptions
referring to the staff of the temples, and denote the
attendants or court of each god; they are used to
distinguish the notables of a town or borough, the sheikhs,
who enjoyed the right to superintend local administration
and dispense justice.

*** The Egyptian scribes had endeavoured to draw up an
hierarchical list of these offices. At present we possess
the remains of two lists of this description. One of these,
preserved in the "Hood Papyrus" in the British Museum, has
been published and translated by Maspero, in _Études
Égyptiennes,_ vol. ii. pp. 1-66; another and more complete
copy, discovered in 1890, is in the possession of M.
Golénischeff. The other list, also in the British Museum,
was published by Prof. Petrie in a memoir of _The Egypt
Exploration Fund _; in this latter the names and titles are
intermingled with various other matter. To these two works
may be added the lists of professions and trades to be found
_passim_ on the monuments, and which have been commented on
by Brugsch.

His toilet alone gave employment to a score of different trades. There
were royal barbers, who had the privilege of shaving his head and chin;
hairdressers who made, curled, and put on his black or blue wigs and
adjusted the diadems to them; there were manicurists who pared and
polished his nails, perfumers who prepared the scented oils and pomades
for the anointing of his body, the kohl for blackening his eyelids, the