60 EGYPTOLOGICAL RESEARCHES. 
THE POLITICAL OCCASION OF THE DECREE: 
SUPPRESSION OF THE REBELLION. 
HIEROGLYPHIC TEXT. DEMOTIC TEXT. 
d 
it sm’ w-sn i n hm-f 
When it was announced to His Majesty 
m ; mh-b' = nw(!) hm-f 
through the mouth ofa Friend of His Majesty 
mr n—st hr hrp nfrw 
who loves the king, concerning the commander of horse, 
"'r(w)sdi|nyws p} 'r(w)sdinygws 
Aristonios, the (son) of Aristonikos, 
4af 
m_ strt?g}(?)m(y)nws | nty 
as commander in chief (ortparnyotpevos) who (is) 
‘mut - ’m(yw)-’b th(yw) nw 
among the First Friends of 
hm-f m 2d: Pereete a a 
His Majesty saying: [who had raised rebellion ?] 
5a h 
Ww-sn(!)s m | b rs(y)t | [hr—?| t(a)-[f? bn?] Igf(?) . 
(there) was fought in the land of the South, upon (7.¢., against?) [him?];’ [not] did he stop 
[committing sins 
m ww n W;st - + 8 ew ee 
in the Territory of Thebes,‘ against the gods(?). He had gathered] 
h' sbC)w, hft(y) nirw [hr?-] 3[¢(c)? —f?] . . . n- [rm(é)w?] 
with the impious man, the enemy of the ‘gods, against(?)  [him?] [from] the [men] | 
wn hr(2)* tele] Tb?) wf sa han ae 
(who) had been assembling from(?) the warriors(?) (of the warriors(?) [for] 
1 tml n[w?|- [ms‘?]w |[Smw_ITI . . 
war, hlis?] [soldier?]s month [XI .. + 
1 Literally: ‘‘who filled the heart of H. M.”’ ‘The following synonymous expression shows that the Greek 
original must have designated him as a “Special Friend ”’ 
2 The rare sign in the value of rt; in later time ordinarily used for ry. The following g is very small, almost 
like n(w), for which it could be held. The next sign might also be w. 7 
3 The sign s is left incomplete. 
4 An awkward translation for ‘“‘the Thebais.”’ es 
6 The questionable /r— traces might be secondary in part. The group before may have an m below; the sign 
above seems to be a very narrow wm; at least the peculiarly forked tail, which our two inscriptions give to this sign, 
seems clearly visible. Wn expresses a continual past action. It is neither the enemy striking himself nor do the © 
readings nly or hpr of the whole group appear possible. The reading hwi nir(w) * ‘the temples” (taking the second — 
vertical stroke as part of the temple sign), is equally impossible. 
* The orthography of hn ( instead of the exact m-—hn ‘from among ”’) is unusual and uncertain. ‘The unique 
word wif (see again 9b, rif ), written here with the determinative ' “digegeaes man,”’ shows that it was used as synon- | 
ymous with “rebels.” 
7 Not quite certain, but the sense is clear. 
§ Abbreviation or mutilation of the expression Ros. demot. 11? 
* The group looks like a date, though this does not correspond with the hieroglyphs. This must be said also 
of the preceding words and of the whole passage, which makes us think of additions in the demotic text. 

