64 EGYPTOLOGICAL RESEARCHES. 
SPECIAL BENEFITS TO THE PRIESTS—continued. 
HIEROGLYPHIC TEXT. DEMOTIC TEXT. 
[st(—sn?)]} w,h(?)—sn? erg(?)? 
[their place] (and) be added(?) foundation(s?) (of) 
7b sh 
sh(w)t-[sn]* | ’w(?) gs—sn(?)? fee ke ret pw 
[their] fields to their part. [for the] temples(?). 
’w—[dy-f?] nb he “(wt nb n— mi't E-whf nb [hal 
He [gave?] gold, silver, all genuine stones He added gold, silver, 
6a 
my—‘S—sn w s—h' ‘my | [n—m;‘(t) 
in great quantity, for the decoration of stone(s) [of value for the decoration of] 
7e . 
| [Pé]h wn(??) ntr—nb(?)? nw-'rp[yw](?) yy) (2) ‘ata 
Ptah(’s temple),° (and what) there was (for) any god(?) | their(?) temples(??) going(?) [to ruin? he was?] 
m ws m hmw ’w-[f?]-rdt wn-sn| ty(?) . . ‘ 
in ruin in thesanctuaries [he?] causedthem tobe | giving(?) (i.e., causing?) then to ie repaired] 
hr st-sn 
on their place (i. e., in the former, good state). 
7d 6b 
| ’r-nf ‘“ihw(i)—wrw . ... [Jw. ...) | [r-f mi-nfrt Sy] Hp,° Wr-mr(!) 
He did great benefits [many?] to [the Apis] [he did benefits many] (to) Apis, Mnevis 
h‘ Nb(?)-nm(?)wy® Swylwl|?  ntr(yw) [um n—-k’’w a4 nt hwy (n) 
and the Mnevis (and) the — sacred animals | [and the other animals which (are) venerated in 
7e 6c 
hw |n [Km]t m-hiw- 4 wn |t-Kmy hw, nyy(?)-]| | wn—nj—w hit) 
venerated in Egypt more than (those who) were | Egypt more than those who] were before him 
hr-h,t-f. sae naling ‘r(-w?) [el 
before him. His heart entered (7. e., was willing to serve) : had done, [being] 

' The passage can not be filled after Damanhur 15, because the text has been considerably varied, expanding 
the first words and crowding or shortening the rest. The traces behind the large determinative of rk are: a 
round top of a high sign which might be the ideogram yt “father.’’ Below is a heavy oblique stroke, suggesting 
the hind leg of a w, though it is too heavy and the other traces do not confirm a w. _ It may be secondary, a contin- 
uation of the crown cut over most of plate a. Next follows a sign which looks like a big square, irregular in front. 
The following r is very high, but fairly certain. 
2 W3h in irregular form. 
’ This (at first) very difficult group begins g(?)r. The next sign above proved to be g, being different from the 
ordinary form of mw in our text, and this led to the correct reading grg. Consequently, the sign below, looking 
half like ’m “ship,” half w‘h “‘net,” is the leg in a trap. A gap for a narrow sign remains, possibly filled by a 
bookroll. 
4 The three parallel plural strokes of the noun can be guessed from the traces of the first. 
5 I suppose § is to be corrected to sz. I have tried to understand the whole passage as expanding Ros. Greek 
15-16, from a mere conservation of the priestly lands to an augmentation. 
° The expression “‘for adorning Ptah” is thus to be understood because this section treats of buildings. 
See p. 46, note 4, on the double sense of sh* “‘to show, to decorate.”” At any rate, the space does not permit a 
noun before ‘‘ Ptah.” 
’ All these restorations are uncertain and poor Egyptian. The traces do not agree with nb “all, every,’’ but 
still pe with ht ‘‘temple.”’ 
‘The name is disfigured in the sign 2m (misread mr by Egyptologists and later Egyptians) and has ini 
form, also, in the addition of nb “‘lord”’ (if this is not to be read n “‘to”’). 
§ The first stroke of final —y is preserved. 
’° With a remarkable archaizing expression of the h- of Hp. ‘The name Mnevis, with a strange determinative. 


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