at) EGYPTOLOGICAL RESEARCHES. 
THE SPECIAL FESTIVAL DAYS FOR KING AND QUEEN—Continued. 
HIEROGLYTHIC TEXT. DEMOTIC TEXT. 
5a 2 ; 
m(?) w(n)|nw{t}'—sn 41S on nt Sms (7) nw | rpyw(?)9 
at(?) their hours (of officiating) — in who functionate® (in) their] temples (?) 
I4h 
h{wht—ntr miwiw ’r hb?—-h' n\ a)—w(?). *r hb] 
the temple[s], and be made a processional festival to | and that be(?) made processional [festivals] 
15b , } 15a : 
Mite Lee n—st [’byty] n n-rpyw t—Kmy(?) | [tr-w] hr(?) pr- 
honor? > the king of Upper and Lower Egypt, | in the temples (of) Egypt (?) _ [all] for (?) the king 
ys ie Pitrwwymys ‘nh  2t Ptlwmys mh ot Pth mr 
the son of the Sungod, Ptolemy, living forever, Ptolemy - living forever, beloved of Ptah, 
Pth mr 
beloved of Ptah, 
h‘ — snt-hmt-f nb(t) wy ee os 
and his sister-wife, the mistress of both countries, [and the queen Cleopatra . 
I5c 
QOrw|'wipdri(t), nt[rwy pr(wy) lei ir ie 
Cleopatra, the two Gods_ Epiphanes, the Gods Epiphanes, 
r5b 
tb rnpt S—m Cbd) tlp(y) ht Om. 8. ae 
every year from __ the] first month (Thout), . every year] (from) the first day of the year], 
15d 
hrw I nfryt* | [r h(rw) III(?)® (bt) thy(?) ’sht 5‘ hlw] Ve 
day 1, until [the day 3(?) (the) first month, until (the) [Five Days??] 
ioe eo 
mh(w)| r tb—sn é-wty klme 
crowns} on their head, they wearing crown(s) 
s—[hb] hywy(!)® sqr é-—w ’r [ell wine nm p-s 
putting in festival state the altar(s), pouring out (and) making [holocaust(s), libation(s) and the rest (of) 
I5e 15d 
wdnw h‘ [()hwt]-nb | twiw [n ’rty())]'| mt-nt}-ph(t?) | e(?) 'r-wW 
libations with every[thing] proper [to do}. things] becoming to do (them). 

1A high m (the ‘‘key’’-sign)? The trace, like broad m, behind, is too high and seems secondary; it could be 
understood, however, as the ’y of Ros. 11, so that we should have.to read, like the Rosettana: “who perform 
their hours.’’ At the end of the line is a group which appears to be at a first glance either a high » or an asymmetric 
my: “‘like, as.’ It is, however, more probable that we have the hind part of wv, and of an u, of which latter also 
the first stroke may be visible. No certain trace of the determinative (a star) is visible in r5a, yet the word seems 
to be intended after Ros. 11 (entirely misunderstood and changed to w by Chabas). 
* Hb appears on the stone often like md. 
* The space requires more than ‘for the soul (k;) of’’ which we should like to supply after Ros. 7. 
4’The book-roll would not fill the great space and the ¢ is so unusual that we must suspect an attempt to 
engrave an / under or over it; also the following traces do not fit the necessary restoration after Ros. very well. 
°Thus after Ros. Greek 50. See Philz, II, 16c, on the change of the duration of the festival from five to 
three days. 
° For (y)wt. The side-support in the sign of the sacrificial table is not quite certain. 
7 This strange form after Ros. 12 (for ’y—-tw or ’rt?). 
® Literally: ‘“‘serve.”’ ag 
* The hopeless traces lead to the conjecture that the scribe tried to correct the above erroneous reading of 
Ros. 29. The correct word wnwt ‘“‘hours’’, which must be expected here, can not be read into the text, but the 
initial signs of erpe(y) ‘“‘temple”’ are visible. 
” Thus (after Ros.) on the assumption that the engraver, working mechanically, disfigured various signs; 
e. g., the oblique stroke of Kmy seems never to have been on the stone, nor the usual horizontal stroke above; the 
group looks more like hn “in.” 

