THE BILINGUAL DECREES OF PHILAE. 75 
THE DOWNFALL OF THE REBELLION IN THE THEBAIS—continued. 
HIEROGLYPHIC TEXT. DEMOTIC TEXT. 
mr-(m¥}! | 
the chief [commander of the army] 
sb’w h' wrw(?) 
(of) the godless ones(?) together with [the chiefs ?]? 
2b se 
| nt Nhs(y)w [m?]s(y) hn‘ ie eee Pate. DUE nm-f. H-w ’n(y) n'—m-f 
of the Ethiopians brought with him. » « « « gathered with him. He was brought 
of oe 
w-sn n’mf |w slit nity r hm-f e p-|m’ nt-é pr-‘ n'—’m-f. E-f [ty?] 
He was led to the place where was His Majesty. | to the place (at) which the king was. He [gave(?) 
I2¢e 9g 
| ’w-[dy??]-sn hsf(?) n(?) Od[fw] rae wei tp -[ncmllmcbiw 
He was punished* for the cr[imes] (7. e., caused) him to be punished ?] [for the] crimes® 
"r(?)—s—nf (/)? we,w ely Ae Oe cake 
(which) he had committed, (by) death which [he had done] 
m spr-f(?) rf. 
at his(?) approaching to him. 
12d 
Mylti-ry? . . . sb]w | nn wn Ree eee eo | hk. oe 
Like[wise the (other?)criminal]s thosewho hadbeen|. . . . . . . [whohad been] at the head of 

1 For a long time I read k}. K} ‘“‘to name, to think,’ furnishes, however, no sense at all. The ligature jm, 
“to seize,” is quite impossible. Finally the ligature proved to be mr (the archaic abbreviation for ’my-s}), 
“overseer, superintendent, chief.’ Thus the son of the pretender appears as chief commander, probably “‘of the 
army, the soldiers’ (ms‘w). Less probable would be restorations like ‘“‘chief of the horse” (hipparch, cp. line 
4d; we should expect rather frp nfrw for this expression), etc. Space and traces (bow, arrows, arm) favor the 
above restoration. 
2 Wr is probable and a disfigured plural stroke. 
* R for ’w, e. ‘The omission of the ’m “there,” pointing back to the relative pronoun, is unusual and seems to 
be due to the preceding ’m-/. 
4 Although the general sense is tolerably certain, the restoration is very difficult in detail. In the above 
translation I have assumed that the hieroglyphic text changes the subject of the verb from the king (see the demotic 
text) to more impersonal —sz ‘‘they,”” which expresses the passive. The single trace above, which would then 
remain for a verbal root, is unfortunately very high, even for as low a sign as dy “‘to give,” so that an erroneous 
transposition ms for sm might be considered. ‘The following word shows an initial hieroglyph like hz, wz (not like 
h) and behind a small ‘‘strong arm.’’ Below I believed at first to see traces of a ‘‘ wicked bird,” but as this would 
have an impossible position after the arm, instead of before it, I have rather tried to find a horizontal line, , in 
an irregularly high place. Read hsf (with an f supplied over the arm or through the top of /s/, as ge) “to hinder, 
to ward off, to put an end to,” here as “‘to punish,’”’ in a somewhat unusual sense. (Or, correct to nz “‘to 
revenge, punish,”’ after r4e?). 
’ We assume a corruption of ’r—n-f-s, the s standing for st, se, the plural or neuter collective of the personal 
pronoun. ‘They did (7. e., imposed) to him death” (assuming only the assimilation of the ” of naf to the preceding 
sen) seems to be a less probable explanation; the verb ’r(y) hardly could be used in such a way. 
® This demonstrative form seems to be used in imitation of the pe, pai, plur. ne, nai, strengthening the relative 
pronoun in Coptic, 7. e., it belongs to the following relative verb wn, not to the preceding noun. 
7 The distinct (ce) before ’m-f, in place of Coptic emmof, is remarkable in both instances. The construction 
of the object with ’m-— in the first instance is a very interesting modernism. It would be possible to say simply 
é-w ’nt-f, “they brought him,’’ but in order to give the fully accented pronunciation of the characteristic verb, 
i. e., to emphasize the disgraceful fact of captivity, that direct attachment of the verbis avoided. (Cp. L. Stern, 
Koptische Gramm., $493). We understand now why the hieroglyphic text, generally so strongly archaizing, 
uses this modernism for emphasizing the awful fate of the rebels, }m-wt ’m-f: ‘“‘he was seized” (16a), and sm; 
*m-sn: “killing them” (5c). As said there, the latter expression is intended to show how complete the slaughter 
of the insurgents was; it stands thus in direct opposition to the archaistic use of m, after which we might think 
that ‘‘ (some) from (m) them”’ had been killed. 
* Because ending in —w the word “crimes” might receive the plural sign irregularly, as also in other instances. 
The plural sign, however, seems to stand before it and leads us to the compound mt—btw, unknown to Coptic, as 
far as I know. 
