THE BILINGUAL DECREES OF PHILAE. 81 
THE STATUES COMMEMORATING THE VICTORY—continued. 
HIEROGLYPHIC TEXT. DEMOTIC TEXT. 
: 12b 
nity m ‘trty RS ur ee kim, h‘ 
who (are) in the (temples of) the two halves Ririeetes) (ee aeee eS x 7) x... procession 
14f 
hr hni{tyw—’ pn] ( 
(of Egypt) for(!) [these (two?)] sta[tues]! 
[dbht (m) sp III m hrt hrw 
[(sacred) apparatus three times every day 
m(?)-b;h?|  —sn 'Y-Sn 
before ?] them,” (as) they perform 
tb-t;-rd® —nb twit]. n fr 
everything prescribed proper to do 
15a 12¢ 
[z?] k3(?) | [-w] xn nirw | nt ew ’r-w n n-k’w ntrw 
[to] the spirit[s](?)* of the gods which are done to the other’ gods 
spt|yw® te Seen DOT a0 h' [n-hbw =s n| h‘w 
[of the nomes at the(ir) festival day]s and (at) [the festivals of processions® 
[hrw] hb n rn-f® nm n—hw(w) rn 
[the day(s) of] festival in(!) his(!) name. and the name days.? 
1 The hr—‘‘for” before inty(w) is very peculiar; it is not impossible that it stands there by a contracting 
adaptation of the text as preserved in Ros. 7 and Phile, I, rob, 7. ¢., we must suspect that the above text 
was simply mutilated from hr [Sms] hntyw ’pn “‘[worshipping] these statues.’”’ Assuming the verb sms, ‘“‘serve,”’ 
to be transposed to a later place, in the gap following the object, we should have even a more awkward 
adaptation. Ros. 7 reads: “‘two statues,” but Philz, I, rob, the simple plural. 
2'The space suffices for this restoration after Ros. 7, Phile, I, 10b, because the hieroglyphic writing allows 
easily the necessary crowding together which we must assume here. 
? Is the sign r, which follows the group ¢p-t}—rd, a disfigured bookroll? 
4 Guided by Ros. hierogl. 7, twt n k}-sn “proper for their spirit(s),” 7. ¢., for them, we can guess that the vertical 
stroke represents the pole of the standard on which the &-sign rests. It seems to have two pendants, radiating 
from the point where the horizontal and vertical pole meet, a somewhat unusual hieroglyphic form. The above 
poetical use of k; “‘spirit, soul, double, self,” is common. Our redactor has shortened the text slightly. This 
original text seems to have been corrected, however, since on the plates |] have tried to read: s—{h‘|-sn ‘‘ (when) are 
brought out in procession,”’ changing the unusual k;-sign to s. At least, we can see that this disfigurement of 
sense has been accepted in the other Phil decree, tod, which aga‘n shows its later date in this development 
of redaction. ; 
5 That is, the local gods. Cp. Ros. hierogl., 7 and 8. A trace of (the second?) st is visible. 
®° This error is common to all hieroglyphic parallels. Even the seemingly more correct text of Ros. hierog]. 
7 reads: “At the festivals of each season and the day(s) of procession and also (see Phile, I, rod) the day of 
(m erroneously for 7) his(!) name.” Phila, I, rod, copies the Rosetta text faithfully. But the last expression is 
correctly “the name days,” in the demotic text in Ros. 24 and Phile, I, 11a, the latter document trying to be 
more clear by marking the plural rn—w. (This expression could, unfortunately, be understood rather as “the (afore) 
mentioned days” than as ‘‘days of their name.’’) See our demotic text above. So n rn-f, understood here as 
synonymous with hr-rn-f ‘(the days) on his name,” 7. e., “bearing his name,” ought to read “their name 
days.” As, here and in the model text, the Rosetta stone, the special days to be celebrated for the king were 
defined only in the following section, we have a good illustration of how carelessly the Egyptian versions were 
worded where they wanted to be more explicit than the condensed Greek text. The singular “day” of the 
Rosettana, in the hieroglyphic text, is especially negligent and obscure. 
’ Exactly as in the demotic (24) and Greek (40) Rosettana. The hieroglyphic version, ‘‘nome gods,”’ i. ¢., 
“principal local gods,” improves the above vague expression. 
8 That is, festivals, on which are held processions, as in better parallels. 
® That is, at the days devoted specially to the local gods, bearing their names. ‘This expression corrects the 
corresponding hieroglyphic text. See note 1. 
