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(18.) sanxit?? et @ .. et scripsit @ . . fausta? rata? Pon- 
TIFICES? deorum Servatorum? et deorum Maternorum? et 
deorum Beneficorum N.N? deorum Amantium Patris, dei Il- 
lustris? Munifici ? et deorum Amantium Matris : quod sit ratum ? 
(20.) Scripsit Phanres,? sacerdos, pro se... Scriba ? 
The Greek letters are merely intended to denote some similar assemblages 
of characters which occur more than once, and which may serve to illustrate 
the different modes of writing the same words. 
Signatures, but apparently not autographs, written transversely. 
(1.) Pontifex ... 
(2.) .... Jurisconsultus ? 
(3.) .... filius? . 
Gays 1) ils he 
(8.) Ego? “ Apollonius.” Champ. 
(13.) Arbasis .. 
(14.) Phanul?... 
(15.) ‘‘ Antimachus; Antigenes.” Ch. 
(17.) Anna? et Inha?? 
(18.) Alii ? 
If we had not been previously acquainted with the valuable 
fragment published by Mr. Béckh, and lately reprinted, with 
some corrections, obtained from Casati’s manuscripts, by Mr. 
Jomard, it would have been difficult to conjecture that the titles 
of all the hierarchy would have been inserted in a legal act 
without their names, the phrase ray dvrwy xa} ovewy being thought 
sufficient to imply a respect for the offices, although the writer 
might be ignorant of the individuals occupying them: a cir- 
cumstance, however, not without analogy in modern times. 
Mr. Béckh’s remarks on the apparent omission of the priests 
and priestesses, who ought to have followed the priest of Pto- 
lemy Soter, are singularly confirmed by this manuscript. 
Believe me, dear Sir, always very sincerely yours, 
A. B. C. D. 
| P.S. By one of those singular coincidences, which only become credible 
when they have actually occurred, a Greek translation of this deed of sale 
has this day been placed in my hands by Mr. George Francis Grey. The 
whole of the preamble is omitted, but the eighth witness is a son of Apol- 
lonius, and the fifteenth is Antimachus, the son of Antigenes. The title begins, 
ANTICPA®ON I'PAOHE AIYMTIAS. 
London, 22 Nov., 1822. 
