MacaListrER—On a Monument of Rui. 263 
XL.—On a Monument oF Ruz iw tae Dusiiw Narronat Museum. 
By A. Macatister, M.D., F.R.S. (Plates XVI. and XVII.) 
[Read, June 11, 1883.] 
A .irrLE stone statue in the National Museum is one of the few Egyp- 
tian specimens in the collection. No record exists, to my knowledge, 
to indicate its source, but it originally formed part of the collection of 
the Royal Dublin Society. It is in an exceedingly bad state of pre- 
servation, and has been sorely weathered, so that the right side of the 
figure has lost its entire surface, with the inscription thereon, and the 
back has been so much defaced that with difficulty can many parts of 
its inscription be reconstructed. 
The block is in the form of a squatting figure, with a flat back 
forming a tablet. Above, it is surmounted by a head, on the flat top 
surface in front of which are the outlines of two hands carved. The 
head is very much worn, but had originally a sort of namms head- 
dress. 
The stone is a very soft yellow sandstone, so powdery that it 
erumbles when shaken never so lightly, and the whole block is in 
size about 18 inches by 15 by 12. 
It bears an inscription around its front and sides in horizontal 
lines, reading from right to left (Pl. XVI.), and a second inscription 
on the flat back (Pl. XVII.), both commonplace enough proscynemata, 
but interesting as memorials of a remarkable man. 
The inscription on the front (Pl. XVI.) reads thus :— 
(1) Suten hetep ta Mentuém Ani nebt Ara sat Ra 9 io ts 
Give royal supplies, Mentu in Hermonthis, the lady of ) the daughter of the 
Uraeus § sun. } 
x * *€ ? her tep? * * (Neb ?) ta hent neteru 
chief over Nephthys ? mistress of the gods. 
(2) Ta sen per er xerw aptiu haw akaw menx hebs, xa em xet 
May they give funeral meats, \ geese, oxen, bread, clothing, thousands of all 
bread, beer, 
nebt mnefert abt tutu pet gamat ta 
things, good, pure, gifts of heaven, treasures of the earth. 
(3) Anentiu Hapi em tephet ef en ka en an mer tpa 
Things brought by the Nile from his secret places to the ka of the scribe, chief ) 
of the palace, § 
mer pa xeru Rui Ta sen per aq 
superintendent of the ) Rui.. May they give to go in ) 
and out. f 
treasury 
