72 EGYPTOLOGICAL RESEARCHES. 
THE KING SPECIALLY PROTECTS THE TEMPLES DURING THE 
REBELLION—Continued. 
HIEROGLYPHIC TEXT. DEMOTIC TEXT. 
Be : 
—n wrw ’s rf] fee [ESE 7 ae de 
[things]' many and _ [he] showed? . . « [He] showed care [considerably] 
rod &d 
| mh?—nbt r s—wz;(/)* — [hwt-ntr] e(!)8 t(y)-wz; | n-rpyw. 
all care in order to protect [the temples]. for protecting the temples. 
ty oho sees [is?]w nt H;‘-f"* mtkt(t);3t n Wynn ’m-—w 
He [plalced® [there] [troop]s_ of He placed aforce of Greeks in them 
roe Se 
Hy w-nbw | ms‘[w] hn n- rm(t)hw | ’r 
Greeks (and) soldiers’ (from) among the men who had 
[m]wt(y?) wny[w] nwd rrr 
(from) among the people (who had) moved*® | [reformed?], (?or: done according to (m-s}?) his will) 
&f 
'r(?)— hn(t?)-w [e] n-rm(f)w t—-Kmy | 
moving themselves” to the people (of) Egypt 
m Bat sdm>___ tp-t}-rdwy-f nt e-'r p-hp hn t—-Kmly 
in Egypt (to) obeying his orders, who did thelaw(ful things) in Egypt 
rof 
hnm h{r | -[sn]° . rrr 
being joined together [with them i in zeal for the gods 2] 
[]w-sn my ms hn‘—sn. 
they were like (people) born with them." 
1 Supplying (’)ht: “things,’’ seems unnecessary. 
2 The traces can be restored with great probability after the demotic text. 
’’The m stands for the horizontal hieroglyph h, the s for the sign ‘‘vertebree.”’ 
4’The small w slung through the z; has become meaningless. 
° To be supplied thus evidently. The seeming }; is strange, however. 
° For nty. 
7 This word hardly refers to the “Greek troops” as a superfluous apposition. It seems that we can find here a 
valuable indication that those repenting rebels belonged to the soldier class; see “warriors’’ 50. 
*’The Greek original seems to have used xveicOar “‘to move oneself’’ (not only airouodeiv ‘‘to desert, to go 
over’). The awkward Egyptian imitation employs a very archaic word nwz, later nwd: “to move oneself, to shake 
oneself, to wriggle, to jump up.” (See Pyr. P.107=N. 75; M. 73, Harhotep 191, 330, 369 (causative s-), LD. II, 52 
(s-nwz), Totb. Naville 64, 10, 19, 35; 78, 12, Med. Berlin 20, 10, Ebers 19, 5; Berlin Amonritual 7, 4, Louvre C. 107 
(corrupted to nwr), Peasant-story, Berlin II, 6, 98, 106; IV, 2 5» 34, etc.) ‘The demotic rendering seems even more 
awkward and artificial. 
* The sign in unusual form, assimilated to the human ear. 
” Behind hnm(w), “(they) being joined,” the horizontal h, with space for r. 
4 Greek original, probably: like relatives, as ovyyeveis, or similarly. 
” This reading is guessed from the rather uncertain hieroglyphic parallel. The extant traces point to an 
unusual group (hw(w)t: ‘““abodes?’’). 
3 Incorrectly m for e as often. 
4 The stroke between the group expressing the root and the termination —/ is strange and might lead to finding 
in it various archaic elements of inflection. It is best understood as erroneous, having arisen from a filling-point 
in the original manuscript on papyrus. 
'® See Spiegelberg’s Petubastis-glossary, No. 247, for the demotic use of Coptic hon. ‘The demotic version 
seems to incur repetition in rendering the difficult Greek clause. Cp. with the hieroglyphic equivalent. We 
might find in hn(t?)-w, “they moved (themselves),” also an indication of volunteering by those Egyptian armed 
guards, but the passage remains partly obscure. 
