74 EGYPTOLOGICAL RESEARCHES. 
THE KING SPECIALLY PROTECTS THE TEMPLES DURING THE 
REBELLION—Continued. 
HIEROGLYPHIC TEXT. , DEMOTIC TEXT. 
gob 
w S18 f a ee ae e [n-'|rpy[w]  Kmyt(?)..|... 
in order to protect [the temples of Egypt against ?]! [to protect§(?) the] temples (of) Egypt(?) [against 
[sb]’w [77] [ihky —-sn ws S30(?) 0°... ty eee 
the impious ones (who) |had?] violated? them. the im]pious [ones ?] (who) violated them.° 
THE DOWNFALL OF THE REBELLION IN THE THEBAIS. 
Ire 
'w-sn S—'Y spr m-b;h  hm-f ’r|—w| ‘n— smy |. ie 
(There) was brought up* areport before His Majesty (There was] brought report [before the king, 
oc 
n ‘bd IV Smw [hrw| . . 4 m-ed: bee 0. wae ee 
in the 12th month, day [3], thus: See ee ee Te ie | 
11f 
hf-sn | hill p-s];[b(2) es 
(there) has been seized captive [that wicked mant in} that impious one(?).! [He was captured?] in 
od 
wnt 'y h‘f hspt XIX p—mlh | é@-r-w nm-f n hspt XIX 
the battle deliv me with him, year 19, the battle delivered withhim, in the year 19, 
smw *bd III i [hrw XXIV m sq ‘nh?| bt III Sm(w)" hw XXIV ef—‘nh 
the 11th month (Epiphi) [day 24, as live prisoner(?)].° month 11, day 24, he being alive. 
" ge 
s(?)[m}|-sn oy ae E-w sm;(/) | ee 
They s[lew] his son [the eldest 2,7 (There) was slain’ [his eldest(?) son] 

1 There is space for one or two more words. 
> This restoration seems to be quite certain; the position of the ¢ (before the /, instead of over it) shows that 
a sign must be restored. ‘This leads to the restoration of ’r, the sign of the perfect tense (or the relative r). 
3‘That is, to the high throne. 
* A rather small number as date according to the space. 
> The trace at the end of line rze seems to point to the above (slightly pleonastic) restoration. 
° This restoration adds pleonasms, but seems unavoidable. 
7 The space permits the filling-in of one narrow, high sign, like the standing man with statt =sms: “eldest.” 
* The traces fit this restoration (which requires /(y)—wz} or t(y) ’r-w wz}) very poorly, although it would seem 
to be quite certain after the context. ‘Those traces make us rather think of “‘sins’’ committed against the temples. 
So we must assume that the engraver disfigured the passage strongly, and corrected only “the nomes”’ over the 
errors, leaving the corruption for wz). 
* We can guess after the hieroglyphic parallel as I have rendered above, but the single traces allow no certain 
restoration. If the word s;b was employed here it ought to have the plural sign, which is certainly absent; it is 
not very likely that the word is used as an adjective after rm[i|w “people.” Thy “‘to violate” is usually written 
very differently from what we can recognize here on the stone. : 
’° Thus I venture to restore the isolated traces in the inner angle of the arm of the figure cut above the inscrip- 
tion. Consequently, the verb must be sought in the following gap. (Kp “‘to capture’ is written in Ros. 1o in a 
way which forbids to restore those traces to [g]p or [k] p.) 
“The season sign has not the regular form, but it can not be read with a different value. Some scratches before 
it look as though the date had been erased and recut. 
' We have to restore this verb according to the sense and the hieroglyphic text, although the engraver has 
mutilated it quite badly. Since he did not understand the rare word in che ink copy written on stone, he cut in 
three parallel vertical strokes instead of the horizontal s and interrupted the very long m;—-sign; che following 
group likewise is disfigured. ‘The word seems to bé used in the shorter form sm; (Ros. dem. 16), not in the more 
archaic orthography sm3m (Gnost. Paris ed. Maspero, 1, 17, etc.). The mutilation by the engraver looks, at first 
sight, like an abnormal pgeé, but this would be senseless. ¢ 
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