THE BILINGUAL DECREES OF PHILAE. 51 
THE SPECIAL FESTIVAL DAYS FOR KING AND QUEEN—continued. 
HIEROGLYPHIC TEXT. DEMOTIC TEXT. 
14e 
a1 1(?7) [’r-ltw ’bd?-nb [m hb(w?)] ‘rq ee rete ees Th Les Pigs aD 
(and) the 22nd(?),! be held every month [as festival(s?)*] | the last, the r7th and . . . | a festival 
m prw—m;‘t(?) nw Bqt r-;w-sn mltwtw| hr—bt-nb hn n-rpyw n_ t—-Kmy 
in thetemples of Egypt allof them, and [be | every month in thetemples of Egypt 
I4eé 
wh { ‘h(w?) sqr ] wt(?)nw h'‘ tr-w nt(u)[-w ’r gll wine 
setup ovens‘ (and) be poured out]? libations and} altogether and be [made holocaust(s), libation(s) 
14f 14f 
C)hi-nb twt n-r(!)® m hbw- | ’pn | nm p-sp n—mt-| | nt-n(?)-hp ’r-w 
all things proper todo, at these ~~ festivals| and therestof thethings] whichitis proper todo 
th ’bd—nb. n(?) [n]— hb(w?) (hr?)— ’b#}® [-nb?] 
every month. (them) at(?) [the?] festival (s) [every; month. 
"1T—-W m [N-nt é-w’r-w ‘b 
(Which things) are done’ in(!) [The (waysin) which they (have to) bring sacrifice(s) 
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r(;)w—’ pn s¥m3 n  s—[nb?]!° nt(u)—w t§ | hr-t(?) n-rm(t)w 
these rules (?)® (they are) prescribed (?) to everybody (?) they be imposed" on the people 
' Proposed because we must expect the larger number to follow the smaller. The last number might have 
this place, however, as being less important, and the signs before the two certain vertical strokes are very difficult. 
The upper trace might be an irregular (rather triangular) ten; the lower trace looks somewhat like an arm, but the 
space for such a sign is insufficient. It might be a narrow ten, the space before it hiding two strokes of XVII. 
2 ‘The determinative below is a sundisk rather than a star, as in Ros. 11, but both readings are possible. 
8 Singular, ‘‘a festival,’ Ros. 11. 
4For burning holocausts (which excluded larger animals). 
° Literally: “struck (i. e., hurled) down.’’ 
° Disfigured in a remarkable way into one sign (like the ‘‘sacred eye’’) by the engraver. See Ros. 11 for the 
correct form. 
7 Or: the better things (to be) done; see below. 
8 Literally : ‘‘chapters, paragraphs.” ‘The meaning “rules, prescriptions”’ is otherwise not known. Cp. above 
the same word in line roa. ‘The preposition m is unusual. 
* The determinative of two feet may be found with some space for a small sign above. Our text enables us to 
understand the obscure group, Ros. 11. Lepsius’s edition (Auswahl 18) gives an absolutely senseless s’w with 
which no later Egyptologist could do anything. Young, Hieroglyphics 28, and Champollion-Figeac, L’ Egyple 
(German ed. ot 1839, pl. 77; after the Déscription?), show the group to be uncertain, perhaps on account of being 
erased and corrected, or engraved tentatively and incompletely. ‘The reproduction in Budge, The Rosetta Stone, 
vol. I, plate 1, likewise shows the ’w very indistinct, as though it had been corrected; through the s runs an oblique 
scratch which could be interpreted as though sim, poorly engraved or abandoned, was intended, provided that the 
scratch is secondary. We see how far all editions of this important text are from being exhaustive. We can now 
restore and explain the very obscurely worded Greek text of the Rosetta stone, line 48-49: 7as re ywouevas (7. ¢., 
mavnyipes) mposbélabai (sic!) rots raplexouévors év Tots iepois. ‘The best Greek scholars have preferred to leave this 
untranslated, others have been misled by the wrong restoration mposé[ces]._ I understand the passage with the 
help of the Egyptian versions thus: ‘‘and that the (newly) celebrated ones (i. ¢., festivals) be imposed as new 
(duty) to them that present themselves (as priests) in the temples.”” The demotic text, Ros. 1. 2 (see above), 
explains the Greek text completely. The hieroglyphic text follows it fairly well according to our new version. 
Whether our redaction contains the original reading or a correction of an unfortunate, unintelligible archaism 
may be decided later. SSm literally, “explained, described.”’ 
S$ after Ros. 11. Perhaps, the nb ‘‘all’’ of Ros. was omitted in our text; it is difficult to find space for it. 
"The word corrected over (with h‘ “‘procession’’?) so that it would hardly be intelligible without the help of 
the parallel texts. 
™ Stone e. 
8 Our text shortens the expressions of Ros. 29. 
4 Literally: ‘commanded, ordered, prescribed.’’ ‘The preposition which follows remains uncertain. 
