220 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



The Greek inscription is as follows: 



Ylopovaios 'Aptfxij(j)LO<; prjTpos T/?>/(xios e/Jtwcrev L ("">?) N(= 50). 



(Burial) of Porousis (the son) of Haremephis (and) of (his) 



mother Thesis. He lived fifty years. 

 The translation of the Demotic is as follows: 



His soul lives before Osiris — 



Sokar, the great god, the lord of Abydos, Pe-worschi, 



the son of Har-mchef. His mother (was) Te-bes. 



He died wilh fifty years. 

 In this label, though the word ra^>rj is omitted from the beginning, 

 Tlopcuxnos, the name of the dead, is in the genitive case. Hopowis is 

 the Grecized form of the Demotic Pe-worschi = He (who belongs to 

 the) Watcher, Watcher being an epithet of Osiris. 8 Spiegelberg does 

 not give this form of the name (and I have not found it in the few books 

 at my disposal), though he gives other names formed with the same 

 root. 'Apcfirjcjus is a common enough name. 9 It is the Greek form 

 of Har-mehef = Horus fills him. T/&70-1S, the name of the mother, is 

 also common. 10 It is for the Egyptian Te-bes = She (who belongs to 

 the god) Bes. We have also the simple form Brjcns, 11 without the 

 feminine demonstrative, and the forms Br/s, B^o-as, 2ei'/3>}o-is (daughter 

 of BtJcus), Seper/J^crt?, and Tu/3r/s. 



The specimen represented on Plate XVII is a wooden tablet, 12 

 perforated at one end, 12 X 6 centimeters in size. The inscription is 

 in Greek incised crosswise, 13 provenance unknown. 

 The inscription is as follows: 



TKOuaAureive 14 ¥jtt<ovv)(OV ercov 10. 



Tkoualateine (wife or daughter) of Eponychos of years 19. 

 'E7tgjvi>xos is a common name, occurring frequently in the indices of 

 the various collections ol papyri and of Wilcken's Griechische Ostraka. 

 According to Wessely 15 it is from the Demotic Efonch ( = he lives), 



8 Spiegelberg, p. 20*, No. 147, and p. 65*, No. 468. 



9 Hall, No. 50; Krebs, No. 35, 70, and Spiegelberg, p. 2*, a dozen times. 



10 Hall, No. 10; Spiegelberg, No. 369 and 369a. 



11 Spiegelberg, No. 39"43. 264, 364 (p. 45*), 328. 



12 Carnegie Museum, Accession Number 1917; photograph of the original. 



13 Of the one hundred and seventeen labels given by Spiegelberg in his plates but 

 four are written crosswise. 



14 The c in the second line of the inscription must be read as e; for the bar of the e, 

 which the maker forgot to incise, may still be seen on the label. Similar omissions 

 are found inLe Blant, TablaiEgyptiennes, Revue Archeologique, N. S., vol. XXYTII 

 (1874) and XXIX (1875), No. 29; and in Hall, No. 15. 



10 Studien zur Palaeographie und Papyruskunde, Leipzig, 1901, p. 41. Cf. 

 Spiegelberg, p. 10*. 



