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HiEROGLYPHICAL FRAGMENTS. 

 [By a Correspondent.] 



i. Corrected Translation of Mr. Grey's Enchorial Manu- 

 scripts. Hieroglyphics, 34, 35. Young's Account, p. 76. 



A. 



(1.) The year XXVIII ; in the reign of Ptolemy and Cleo- 

 patra his sister, son and daughter of Ptolemy and Cleopatra, 

 the gods Illustrious : (2) and the priest of Alexander, the 

 Saviour gods, the Fraternal gods, the Beneficent gods, the 

 Father loving gods, the Illustrious gods, (3) and the Mother 

 loving gods : the prize bearer of Berenice the Beneficent, 

 and the basket bearer of (4) Arsinoe the Brother loving, and 

 the priest of Arsinoe the Father loving, being [as by law ap- 

 pointed] in the metropolis [Racdt or Alexandria], and in the 

 royal cit}?^ (5) [Ptolemais of the Thebaid], the Guardian 

 Priest of Ptolemy Soter, and the priest of Ptolemy the 

 mother loving, and the priest of (6) Ptolemy the brother 

 loving, and the priest of Ptolemy the Beneficent, and the 

 priest of Ptolemy the Father loving, (7) and the priest of 

 Ptolemy, the god Illustrious and Munificent, and the priest 

 of the queen Cleopatra, and the priest of the Cleopatra, the 

 king's (8) * mother ? the goddess Illustrious, and the basket 

 bearer of Arsinoe the Brother loving, being [all as by law 

 appointed]. It is declared that the parties (9) Alecis the 

 son of Erieus, and Lubais the daughter of Erieus, and 

 Tbaeais the daughter of Erieus, all children of one mother 

 [Thautis ?], Senerieus the daughter of Petenephotes, (10) 

 and of Senlubais, Erieus the son of Amenothes, and Seno- 

 sorphibis the daughter of Amenothes, both daughters of Se- 

 namunis, Sisois [or Spois], surnamed (11) Erieus, the son of 

 Amenothes and Senchonsis ; all seven [living] in Diospolis 

 the splendid ; to the parties Teephibis the son of (12) Ame- 

 nothes and ' Mautis ? have sold for a sum of money seven 

 and a half rods of unproductive ground. (13) These seven 

 and a half rods lying in the southern part of the whole ten 

 rods of open ground in the ' south-west of the city ? the re- 

 maining (14) two and a half rods having been purchased by 

 Asos the son of Horus and of Senpoeris, * as a tenement for 



