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THE BILINGUAL DECREES OF PHILAE. 61 
SUPPRESSION OF THE REBELLION—continued. 
HIEROGLYPHIC TEXT. DEMOTIC TEXT. 
; ie 
h* isw' nw hspt X|IX [nm] | [n-...]Jw n n- 
and troops. of year jg, [and] [the troop?] of the 
Nhs(y)w dmz—sn h‘-f ’ of 'v-twt nm-f. 
the Ethiopians who had united with him, Ethiopians having gathered with him. 
se ~ 4d 
| sm—’m(?)-sn jim m sq i-f-s|m)>. n—m-w , elf tiy)-—h' | 
slaying them, seizing as captive He sl[ew them, hile arrested’ 
nt [‘nh]. p—-s3b rn—f é-f-‘nh. 
this (wicked man) [alive]. the impious man mentioned (before), being alive. 
THE BENEFITS BY THE KING TO THE GODS IN GENERAL. 

5d cc 
Kj-sn: m(y)—nty | wnni E-w 2(t): n-t(t) 
They declare: inasmuch as there was They say: since 
n—st byty 4c, Wy a a eS 
the king of Upper and Lower Egypt, |the king Ptolemy, living forever, 
sR‘ Ptw;rwmys 
the son of the Sun, Ptolemy, 
[‘nh. Bho ks me Pip! 4 ev te 
[living forever, beloved of Ptah], beloved of Ptah, 
a. (0 n—st ’byty (OP ST a I tes, 
the son of the king of Upper and Lower Egypt, the son of king Ptolemy and of] 
5e 4e 4f 
Piw;rwmys hn‘ | hat nbt BRT ALM ce Bye AL | lg Oe ri ie 
Ptolemy, and the quéen (and) mistress queen Arsinoe, [the Gods Philopator, and] 
49 
wy r(w)synyt nirwy if-shmt pr‘t | Glw[péré, 
of both countries, Arsinoé, the two Gods his wife, the queen Cleopatra, 
mr (wy) ytwy h‘  snt-hmt-f hat Seng Tyna) O89 8 
Loving the(ir) Parents, and his sister-wife, the queen | [the Gods Epiphanes] 
5f 
nbt tywy QOrw;’p; | drst 
and mistress of both countries, Cleopatra, 



* The ¢ is not quite plain. The sign fs (Theinhardt’s catalogue Q 54) as a vocal determinative occurs below 
_11¢. ‘The word s(t) means usually “‘troops;”’ it seems to have an unusual sense here, and is not absolutely certain. 
The usual words for ‘‘tribe’’ are impossible. In demotic only the determinative “‘foreign’’ is preserved (migt;?). 
2 Participial construction without suffixal possessive. Determinatives ‘knife’? and “arm” (destroyed). 
The expression of the object by m has, by no means, partitive sense (as though meaning: “‘(some) of them’’) 
(see on this interesting influence of the vernacular grammar, demotic text, line ga). 
’’The orthography is not entirely clear and is certainly unusual. (Second determinative “club.’’) The 
word }m before it is written with eagle and horizontal m in ligature, as 16a. 
4 Pn “this”’ is rare in this absolute use (like the more frequent p/; ‘“‘that one,’’ with contemptuous sense) ; 
the demotic version insures the general sense, however. We might also assume that the repetition of the determi- 
native ‘bound captive’’ has caused the omission of the word sd’(w) ‘impious man.” 
> The nn like-m, but the error possibly abandoned. On ww of the imperfect, cp. p. 60, note 5. 
6 S§ seems to be visible; the m}-sign seems to have been as straight and as far to the left as in Ros. demot. 16, 
where this rare, obsolete word, mutilated gd, occurs. ‘The verb may also be treated as participial, “‘slaying.” 
_ ~.1 Exactly the same double sense as with the English word “‘to arrest.’’ Coptic ¢aho has the same meanings. 
