86 EGYPTOLOGICAL RESEARCHES. 
SPECIAL HONORS FOR THE QUEEN—Ccontinued. 
HIEROGLYPHIC TEXT. DEMOTIC TEXT. 
I6e I3g “a 
rdt h‘ sémt n hat, [’s?] ni(u)-w ty)-h' | p-shm n 
caused to come forth the statue of the queen, | [at that time?]’ (that) be brought out the statue of 
rat s—h‘—f} h‘-f ntr(t?)§ [ut pr, tf-pnt s-hmt nm?| 
causing it(!) (to be) paraded with him the goddess(?) [Epiphanes, his sister-wife also?] 
m hrww-'pn —f nt(u)—w = t(y)®°-h-f nm’ n 
on these days. with him they (shall) bring it out with him on 
n-hw(w) rn—-w 
the days mentioned, 
Mwtwt(!) ’gr(?)> - ‘i N{t(u)—w t(y)—‘h‘(?) 
And be furthermore [placed at the side And there shall be set up(?)!" 
14a 
iets (Pe FJ nb(t) Sr 
of the royal statue the statue]* (of) the mistress [the statue of the queen every year and the hajJlf(?) 
wy mhrww—'pn tp-rnpt—nb(t) rnpt n-tt(?) [ pr-(?) e-f-ty? | 
of both countries on these days, every year (of) the year at the side of [the king who gives] 
I7a 14b 
hk’ psi ee eee M(?)[twltw ’r ‘nh it 2t(?) | Nét(e)-w ’r 
and the half ‘of every year]. And be held life (and) stability forever.” And shall be held - 
bi-erh nty — [hr—-?\hjt— [w?]? hr—‘m p-gr|h]* [2-w(?) h3‘?|-s(?) 
thenight which(is) before them, making music | the night (before) [placing]!® it(?) 
1 This looks like a pleonastic connection of the ancient (s—) and later (dy, infinitive rdt) expression of the 
causative verb. Notice the erroneous gender of the pronoun. 
2 Written like “these three days,” but the stroke between hrw and the plural strokes is to be considered a 
mistake of the engraver. 
3 Written *hr. The learned scribe had in mind the archaic ’hr (for later fr), “now, then, furthermore.” It 
is also one of the possibilities that grt, later gr: ‘but, then,” had been in his mind and that the sculptor confounded 
gr and lr. This would even connect the above form with later usage, which preserved that grt in Coptic je. 
4’The restoration offering itself at first is: “‘[a special festival be installed for] the queen.” The traces of the 
demotic text force us, however, to find a restoration of more specific sense. ‘The trace of the verb somewhat like 
‘h‘, at the end of 16e, may be deceptive. The restoration used above is crowded. 
5 That is, before those (3) days. “The very narrow space makes the later —w, “their,’’ probable in place of 
the earlier pronominal suffix sv. 
® The hieratic sign $m‘ is mutilated by the engraver. The presence of the queen’s statue causes special music 
to be introduced according to the old tradition that goddesses and queens have to exhilarate their divine husbands 
by music, which is more proper for women than for men. 
7 T suppose that the senseless two parallel strokes have been corrupted from the ligature ’s = Coptic is, “behold, 
then.’’ Hardly to be read ¢. For the subjunctive after the conditional conjunctions see Stern, Koptische Gram- 
matik, § 442, 621, 626. 
*The stone seems to bear the masculine ntr: “god,” but surely not the group “ queen,’ 
expect. Is the text in order? 
* This sign confounded with the two preceding vertical strokes. 
A senseless stroke after nm? 
4 Only the determinative “‘feet’’ is visible, but this leaves us the choice only between the above verb t‘aho‘ 
and h}‘, both being used of the setting up of concrete objects, never figuratively of times, days, festivals, etc. 
This seems an important clue ro restoration. 
2 The ending —¢ and, perhaps, part of the determinative (‘‘strong arm’’) visible. 
18 As there is no trace of a hieroglyphic parallel for those loyal, archaistic, phrases, I assume that the redactor 
of the demotic text has transferred the last words of the decree (see the hieroglyphic text, 17/) to a place higher 
up. ‘his furnishes another clue to restoring the sense. 
4 Grh quite distinct; only the i destroyed. 
15 Hardly space for h(})t-w; the sense, ‘eve of the festival,” seems to be certain. 
® Again only the determinative part of the ligature visible. ‘The —s(?) behind is difficult. The following 
stroke might point to mm “with.” 
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which we should 
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