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(4) Un api ta en ka en mer sent (uta) Mentu em An 
as upon earth to the ka of the superintendent of the ) of Mentu in Hermonthis 
granaries 
Rui Ta sen Tahuti oe a ae pe 
Rui. May they give the feast of Thoth * 
(5) swra * per her heru (em s-het) * * * kekm en 
to cause to drink, to travel the roads (in light ?) (and not in?) darkness to the 
(of Karneter) or 
ka en * * 
to dri 
peer (to drive away) 
In this inscription, the first difficulty is in the names of the divi- 
nities. J/entu is plain, and the last may be Wephthys, or possibly Rata, 
the female member of the triad of Hermonthis: but so much of the 
second is lost that it is very doubtful; it is certainly not Harpa ra, 
but may be Jszs. Chonsu sometimes appears as the third of this tri- 
nity ; but the feminines show that it is not so here. 
In line 4 the character after Zuhutd is gone; and in line 56 all 
from heru to kekut is unrecognisable. 
The inscription on the back (Pl. XVII.) is still more imperfect, 
and all the lines have lost their beginnings and endings: what is 
recoverable reads thus :— 
(1) * Mentu Ant Rui tet ef 
in Hermonthis Rui he says— 
(2) * (anxi?)wapita wah SCI Shea 
Oh! living on earth, approachers, passers-by * 
(8) (ut?) w pen tefu abu hebkar  neter hent * * 
this stele, fathers, priests, ministers of the divine majesty * 
(4) * hes ten ar ten hebu suten ten * mer * * 
your praises, ye keep the feasts, royal your * loving. 
ye 4 - se 
(5) an ten a CMatENCSE SN Iiteh Cems =) ne 
as ye would not die ? say ye. 
(6) * * em * anyxu nefer u uch ma * * (api ta ?) 
on ? life, happiness, increase, as (one upon earth). 
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(7) Suten* wu yet  (neb netem bener ?) aptiu ahau akau 
Royal * things all sweet, delicious, geese, oxen, bread. 
(8) xa em yet neb— nefer abt enkaen an. mer pa 
thousands of all things, good, pure, to the spirit of the scribe, major domo. 
The characters which occupied the lacune in this, especially in the 
lines 6 and 7, are not traceable on the monument. In line 5 the cha- 
racters I have read ¢eyes are very vague, and the determinative is gone. 
