THE BILINGUAL DECREES OF PHILAE. 65 
SPECIAL BENEFITS TO THE PRIESTS—continued. 
HIEROGLYPHIC TEXT. DEMOTIC TEXT. 
7f 
hr sS-sn AE itil) i) nb? ht(z)-f— hr  |nw-ts—shnt]  t(z)’-nb(!) —w. 
for that which was becoming to them, the whole time. | his heart for [their command] all the time. 
7 
'y—nf 2‘r r—‘b zt-sn | | E-f [ty?] n(3?) nt é-w-wh}-w wh 
He did (what was) required for their (dead) bodi(es) He gave those (things)® which were required for 
8a 6e 
wrut zsr|wf[Z]. nw— gst é—w—‘; é—-w(?)‘Fy(/),2 ew | FF) 
in a great (and) magnificent way. their burial largely, plentifully, liberally 
Ty-nf s[hn-sn ’w*] hwt-ntr-sn [E-f-ty n—nt é-w shny-w (e) nw- 
He took (on himself) [their] ex[pensesfor] their temples, [He took that! which was spent (for) their 
(or: paid?)" 
[’?]w—sn m hb? wh(?)—‘[h?]* 'ypyw  é-w-'r hbw é-w-’r 
(which) were (used) in festival(s), holocaust(s), | temples (when) were held festivals, (when) were held 
8b of 
| [s]gr(?)> wa[n|® hi twtw(!)—nb glijw'? nm  p-sp mt-nt | ph n(/)® 
the outpouring (of) libation(s) and everything proper | holocausts] and the rest of thethings proper to 
my ’r-sn, tp—t; (!)-rd—nb ryt(!)—w nm(?) 
as is done, (and?) everything prescribed do (them) and(?) 
8c 
(fi a so te 6 Me ee ee ee 
for [the temples of Egypt(?) 

1 Erroneously engraved k for nb. Tr(t) is so written that only the context enables us to distinguish it from 
rnpt ‘‘year.”’ 
* We can restore thus after Ros. hierogl. 3. The word shn (the determinative of which, 7. e., the two arms 
reaching down, is visible in rather indistinct traces) is a modernism which nobody would understand without the 
parallel translations; see note 11 on the demotic shny. According to the prevailing archaizing tendency of the 
hieroglyphic text we should have guessed at a sense: “‘installation(s).”” Ty “he took away,” 7. e., to his account, 
had them charged to himself. 
§ A high sign ib (the upper traces of which first gave the impression of gsr). 
4Thus after Ros. hierogl. 11; literally ‘‘a setting-up of oven(s).’’ ‘The presupposed sign w’/, does not show 
the characteristic form of the upper part; it looks more like a simple ): (cp. 7a). Likewise the following traces 
are indistinct (‘Ain and ‘“‘metal’’). The sense is, however, rather certain. 
* With the frequent confusion of g (instead of g) and hr, and, probably, without determinative, 7. ¢., in abbre- 
viated orthography. 
® Traces of w and of a d crossing it are visible rather high up. Behind, the determinative of water flowing 
in an elongated spiral from the libation vase; above, space for 1. 
7 The hieroglyphic traces do not enable us to find the above restoration on the stone. The bird-sign, which 
begins 8c, is m or ;. As sign of the hawk, expressing “‘god, divine,” it would probably have the whip behind, of 
which we here have notrace. The apparent ¢ before the secondary vertical line might be an accidental hole (in 
traces like r or 'r?). 
8’The group 7;(y) here seems to be confused with ty. 
* The text of Ros. 18 here is disfigured. The copyist of Phile did not understand the form ‘y “large” and 
separated it into two words, rather unsuccessfully it seems. 
10 Plural, the (things) which. 
11 ’T‘he exact sense of this business word seems to be ‘‘to draw from the bank,”’ or “‘to incur a debt,’’ or some- 
thing similar. The Greek rendering 7a TeAvckdpeva eis Ta idva (7. €., special, individual, single, local) iepa (gr. Ros. 
32) explains it, together with the use of shn(é) ‘“‘credit, expense, banking account,”’ or similarly, Griffith, Rylands 
Papyri, III, 287, note 3. 
12 So far filled-in after Ros. dem. 18-19, with some probability, but not absolute certainty. 
8 The Phila stone here confirms the small 1 which my personal copy of the Rosettana has as a doubtful dot; 
it is lacking in the edition of Lepsius. 
“4 A very remarkable orthography, which shows that the form before personal suffixes ai— of the verb ir in 
Lower Egyptian Coptic is more archaic than the corresponding aa-— of the Sahidic dialect. 
