84 EGYPTOLOGICAL RESEARCHES. 
FESTIVALS COMMEMORATING THE VICTORY—Continued. 
HIEROGLYPHIC TEXT. DEMOTIC TEXT. 
m hb wri m—hnt? [x] hd(?) 
as a festival a big one in [as] a festival , 
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gbhwy r—-tp [x n-—rpylw’ [rnp?|t-nb... | nt(u)—w 
the sanctuaries (of both parts of Egypt) each [in the temple]s every [yea]r® and that be 
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rnpt nb(t) | Ww tr[’|(t/)— nb [aero 
year, at each (corresponding) time(?).° [held these festivals(?) (also when) correspond (?) 
hr?| wh(3)-nb ’[rpy nb 
days?] every [season?] [every templ]le(?) .. .° 
I3c 
'w—s[n?]4 wih ‘h, [nt(u)—-w | ’r]yt-w hr-rnpt-nb — ss(w)III 
Be(?) put up oven(s) (for holocausts) (and) [that] they be held each year three days, 
sqr  winw h‘(?) [rr  (’)htnd(s) nt(e)w "r Ribas, win 
poured out libations and [made all things and that be made _ holocaust(s), libation(s), 
13d 
wi] n  "¢, ‘bb, | p-sp [n mtnt]pht n ’ryt-[w] 
proper] to do, oblation(s), the rest [of the things] proper to do 
16c 
m— | [t]wiw  rdt mh 
and be placed crown(s) 
‘This looks like a bold restoration. ‘The trace above, preceding the big vertical line, does not resemble the 
head of the wr— bird. It may, however, be executed negligently. 
2 The calf’s head is distinct; it stands without complementary —¢ as it seems. 
’ This remark is not quite easy to understand. It looks at first like a pleonastic repetition paraphrasing the 
words “‘each year’’; this superfluous character is not removed by connecting it with the following description of 
ceremonies (‘‘each time be put up,” etc.). The demotic text, which contains an addition in extending the celebra- 
tion over three days, suggests that the hieroglyphic text here has been mutilated. I think it has been condensed 
awkwardly from Ros. 11 (demot. 29, Greek 48), changing the monthly repetition of those festivals to a more vague 
recommendation of repetition at any shorter interval than a year. ‘The scribe of I, rod, feels the obscurity and 
tries to correct it. 
4 A trace above might indicate a horizontal s. 
* Cp. Ros. hierogl. 11, ete., for this restoration. 
° A rather indistinct determinative (‘‘garland’’) used as ideograph. 
7 Narrow space only for this group; also the following restorations imply crowding together. 
° These restorations must assume an unusual crowding together of the required groups. 
* In opposition to the preceding note we must assume lengthy additions in the demotic text, which is not very 
satisfactory. The probable group mh, usually ‘‘to fill, to fulfill,” has, apparently, here the uncommon meaning 
“to return, to correspond,” a sense which can be explained by the analogous use of mah— forming the ordinal 
numerals. ‘The above word for “‘season”’ (probably not quite correctly engraved) occurs again in Canop. demot. 39 
(incorrectly reproduced by Krall; my personal collation confirms the reading by Revillout and Brugsch, although 
the engraver seems again to have erased the vertical stroke. (See Kém el Hisn.) The Greek (20) renders “‘the 
times,’ the hieroglyphic text doubly, by irw ‘‘times”’ (as in our hieroglyphic Phile text) and by phry “returning 
time.’ ‘The strange addition (Canop., 39) n—wS, looks like a second etymology of the same word. K6m el Hisn, 
line 11 (again poorly reproduced by Krall), mutilates that addition as unintelligible to the engraver, but gives the 
group wh; better than Canop. We have now the etymology of the Coptic p—wois ‘‘the time,” pointing to the root 
wh}, originally ‘‘to go around, to send around,” later ‘‘to go around (for) something, to seek,” Coptic wés ‘‘to 
desire.’’ Spiegelberg, Petubastis glossary, No. 99, was misled by the erroneous doublet of the Canopus text, as 
Grifhth was previously by the n—p-ws of 2d Khamuas 6, 36 (Rylands Papyni, glossary, 343). The latter may, 
however, be understood “‘in the gap, te fill the neéd,” so that the popular etymology of Canop. 39 seems to 
be isolated. That derivation from ws ‘‘to be empty, to be lacking, deficient’”’ can now be abandoned as very 
improbable. 

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