Allen: Two Mummy— Labels in mii Carnegie Museum. 221 



This appears .1- .1 proper name, 'E/3<«n% '" Crum's Coptic Ostra 

 Wesselj says thai th< name appeared as E<f>evvxoi, "E<ft6w)(os, 'E<£a>vv;( ou , 

 .Hid later, when il was related to the Greek ow£, the form 'Ttjirwwxos 

 arose. In Achmim the forms E7rwvuj(os, E7toki% Ettwku^ wen- used; 

 in the Fayum 'AirvyKLs, 'Aireyxeis, - X7r 'Vx t<; ' 'A7rwvex, "'7X')' i '- in Oxy- 

 rhynchos A^vyxis, Taa^vyKis, AurvyKis. 



TfcovaAarcive, however, seems to be an unusual name. In it we 

 may have T, the feminine demonstrative, as in the name Te-b§s of 

 the tirs t label given above, and kovu suggests tin- Coptic koui ( = little), 

 which would give Tkoua. The little one. What then is Accrete? In 

 this one is tempted to see Latina, added, for sonic unknown reason, as 

 an epithet of Tkoua: or 'partivi ( = epaTeiviq, lovely or beloved) by 

 apha^resis 17 of initial * after final a, change of p to A, and final e for rj. 

 Such a use of €paravq would be somewhat analogous to the use of 

 ei'i/a'xei, erpoipe, 15 iir ayudtS, 19 eis ati/jLVijcTrov to ovofxxi, 2 " in mummy- 

 labels as well as in inscriptions on Creek graves. It is an objection to 

 this theory, however, that these formula? stand at the end of the 

 inscription, rather than after the name of the dead. 



Neither of these suggestions can be considered as certain. 21 It will 

 be better to consider TVomAaTeive merely as a proper name and leave 

 the solution of its form and meaning to the time when more of the 

 very numerous 22 mummy-labels have been published and our knowledge 

 of Egyptian proper names is established on a broader foundation. 

 Washington and Jefferson College, 

 Washington, I'a., 

 January 27, 191 1. 



16 London, 1902. 



17 Cf. Mayser, "Grammatik der Griechischen Papyri aus der Ptolemaerzeit," 

 Leipzig, 1906, pp. 144, 188, 62. 



18 Goodspeed, "Melanges Nicole," p. 180. 



19 Spiegelberg, Plate XXX, Xo. 99. 



20 Le Blant, No. 35. 



21 Dr. Preisigke, of Strassburg, writes, "The name TicovaXaTeive is new to me 

 as well as to Professor Spiegelberg, to whom I showed it. I do not consider epartivri 

 possible. The text in such mummy-labels cannot be exactly determined." Dr. 

 Wessely writes, "j'y trouve l'element 6va\ar(€)iv€ valatine, e'est a dire le nom 



TKOV(l) 



deforme Valentin; . — simplement ecrit TKova\a.T(e)ii>e — sienifierait alors 



"la petite Valentin." Dr. Schubart suggests that the name may possibly be the 

 Latin Collaiimi with the Egyptian article, 

 spiegelberg, p. v, note 4. 



