62 EGYPTOLOGICAL RESEARCHES. 
THE BENEFITS BY THE KING TO THE GODS IN GENERAL—Continued. 
HIEROGLYPHIC TEXT. DEMOTIC TEXT. 
ntrwy pbr(wy) hr-r C)h(w)tnb' nfrw 
the two gods Epiphanes, doing all things good 
6a 4h 
n hwt-nir? h‘ 'mity(/)*-sn [n-|'rplyw nm n-] | nt hn-w. 
to the temples and_ their inmates [the] tem[ples and_ those] who (are) in them 
h‘ wn (yw) m—hnt(!) 
together with (those) being within 
yiwi-sn = mnht r—}w—sn 
their beneficent dignity (or office) all together, 
5a 
r' ‘b-sn = =omnh-— hr ntrw mh | [éwl]-mh(?) [nw]  htpw(ntr?) | [7] 
being their heart kind towards the “gods, filling | [they] filled(?) [their?] (sacred) income [showing] 
6b 
htpw(?) —sn | sk rws'(?) nb(?) e ty(?) ['n]b(?) 
their sacrifices’ (7. ¢., incomes?) furthermore® care(?)  all(?) to give(?) life(?) 
5b 
’w  tr(t)—nb [xn n-?| phty(?) 
at all time’ [to the?] right(s)(?) of Elgypt?] 
r—sbwt st|s]w(?)* nw Bat {-Kmly](?) nt(u)—-w  ’r(?) 
forthe sakeof  theinstitutions(?) of Egypt Egypt(?) and they did(?) 
6c 
"W—-;W-SN h‘ [hipw]-ntr° 
altogether, together with the divine [domains?]. 
[’w?|—sn rdt mn kj-sn_ [’b?}?° 
They gave (7. e., made) (this) firm (as) they thought (?) 

* Nb seems to be corrected over three plural strokes. 
* N as simple stroke; of the divine hawk, whip and tail are visible. 
3 Incorrectly in place of ’my(w), the —y being disfigured to ty. This is then abbreviated to one sign. The 
analogy of ’mwt “within” (4f; 9b, etc.) may be considered, likewise. 
* Might be, also, a small low m or an irregular m (‘‘in their heart’’), but r(=’w “‘being’’) is most probable. 
5 We should expect: ‘“‘filling their hearts, their wish,’’ (7. e., satisfying them), but the traces are unfavorable, 
as also they are against a restoration like: “their storehouses, their magazines.’’ ‘The horizontal traces above 
are somewhat high for htp(w) “‘sacrifices,’ but the ¢ and irregular p below show that this word is meant. 
(The cake and the plural strokes have been effaced behind.) 
° See below, demot. 5d, the translation of this archaistic expression with ‘on “again.”’ 
7 Thus, rather than rnpt “year,’’ which the orthography would indicate. With ¢# the final -t is senseless, 
but may be taken erroneously from the foot of tv, ?’. 
*I tried, at first, the reading sudw ‘‘the respectful (people or subjects),”’ literally ‘‘those who fear,” which 
seemed to me an awkward translation for some Greek expression like e’Aafeis, ‘the careful, considerate, prudent.” 
The reading is, however, too uncertain, and the last two determinatives would be quite unusual. ‘Therefore, I 
have preferred the restoration s/[s?](w), as meaning ‘institutions, traditions’”’ or the like. It must be admitted 
that with the above reading the two signs following the determinative of ‘saying, thinking’’ remain inexplicable; 
these, furthermore, look as if preceded by a small gap above. Nevertheless, the following “all of them’’ shows 
that a noun in the plural is meant. ‘Thus we can not read: “for the sake of restoring order,” or similarly with 
an infinitive. ‘To change the redundant last two determinatives to gnw ‘“‘many”’ does not yield any better sense. 
* The signs look like ntrwt ‘‘goddesses,’’ but this is senseless. “Evidently the text is corrupted. The guess 
given above (hipw ntr ‘divine domains,” with the goddess sign for that of the broad cake, cf. 6d, etc.) presents 
only the difficulty that these domains are mentioned in the next section. 
The traces fit neither this restoration nor very well mn “‘these,’’ which we should like to see after the demotic. 
