THE BILINGUAL DECREES OF PHILAE. 59 
THE SECOND DECREE—Continued. 
THE DATE—Continued. 
HIEROGLYPHIC TEXT. 
H\ryn; yt n 
DEMOTIC TEXT. 
3a 
[before Arsinoé, the one Loving her Brother; (being) 
w‘b 
priest (ess) 
Pilwmys 
Eijrene, the daughter of Ptolemy, 
3b 
| Glrs[y] t-mr(t)— yt(i)-s. 
of Arsinoé, the one Loving her Father. 
THESRELIGIOUS OCCASION, OF “THE” DECREE. 
4a 
| zm;wt(?)—nir  h' ty(/) 
the holy writings and _ the faculty 
[shsw] 
(the scribes of) 
pr(wy)— | 
of the (double) house of life (7.e., the library) 
‘ 
w‘bw 
priests 
h' n;—kyw 
and the other 
m ’trty sm ‘t 
- from the (two classes of) sanctuaries of the South 
b 
pi-sbdy sn 
“the Fortress of 
mhyt nty m | 
(and) North who (are) in 
'r(w)ksdrs 
Alexander”’ (Alexandria) (who) have met 
4c 
shat nty ’st | h' nirwy snwy 
the sanctuary of Isis 
and the two Brotherly Gods 
’ 
‘b-sn W 
at! ; 
h‘ ntrwy mnhwy h‘ 
and thetwo Beneficent Gods and 
nirwy mr(wy) yiwy hr 
the two Gods Loving the(ir) Parents and 
nirwy pr (wy) nbw Bat 
the two Gods Epiphanes, the “Lords of Egypt,” 
1 Literally: ‘‘towards, into.” 
Wt Y n—|mr(?)—‘nw 
Decree (which) have passed? the [high priests 
3c 
nm n-hnwntr nm n-| | w'bw nt 
and the prophets and_ thel$ priests who 
5(m) e (p-?) m'‘wb e r 
go to (the) sanctuary to perform 
— mnh [xn n—nirw 
the clothing [of the gods, 
3d 
nm n-sh(;)w|] mzyw | nm n-sh(3)w 
and thescribes of] books* and __ the scribes 
r(wy?)— ‘nh 
(of) the (double) house of life (i. e., the library) 
nm n—- kw wbw 
and the other priests 
[who have come from the temples of 
Egypt (to Alexandria?) 
3e 
the Gods 
af 
a) a | eee 
Euergetes [and the Gods 
nt pr 
Epiphanes, 
to the temple of Isis and 
Philadelphus and the Gods] 
[um n—|ntrw 
[and the] Gods 
Bdlét] . 
(of) Egypt 
[m]r— yt(a)w 
Philo]pator 
nbw 
the Lords 
2 No space for the usual words summing up the long date “this day,’’ which we should expect before “decree.”’ 
3 Very abundant space, suggesting some unusual orthography or additions (?). 
4 Strange orthography of this word (the pronunciation of which is not quite certain). 
