50 EGYPTOLOGICAL RESEARCHES. 
THE SPECIAL FESTIVAL DAYS FOR KING AND QUEEN—Continued. 
HIEROGLYPHIC TEXT. DEMOTIC TEXT. 
hh‘ tp(y) "ht hrw ..'. . . ...| mm (bE) thy — "hi(?)® hw IX(+x?)~ 
and the first month, Cayi il &. teria Sele eee ete orss (mouth) day 9g  (??), 
[ms|wt n hat 
[the birth]! of the queen 
nbt twy Orw’w)p,dryt 
and mistress of both countries, Cleopatra, [the birthday of queen Cleopatra. 
14b . 
(are krete tp m(!)? ig RPM, Fai > t-hyt 
[because (these days were) the beginning of Since these days were] the beginning 
14b 
()hi-nb(t) ’;|hwe? wrw [x] wnlyw] n—mt-nfrw é—r—hpr n rm(t)—nb] { aes: 
all things excellent], numerous ones, for those being | (of) the benefits which came to all men [under 
tb(y)w-rG) n- n-st ‘nh—zt 9 pr ‘nh at Pth [mr] 
under the rule of the king, living forever: the rule ?| of the ike living forever, (by) Ptah [beloved],” 
Perse rts a ke Ssp [p|- ss ms,  p-S(s)p t-’ ;wt-hrt 
[the birthday of the king]* and the receiving (namely:) [the] birth, the receiving (of) the high(est) 
: 14¢c 
ywt- | f(!)—mnkit? br ms{t]® 2 rar * - 
(of) his benevolent dignity and the birth (day) (of) | dignity [and the birthday 
r4d 
| Gllwptré 
[his sister-wife, the princess and mistress of both countries | of queen Cleopatra, 
14d : 
[Orw’pidr|;t hw(w)" []pn ‘rq | XVII nilrt nt pr my(?) ’rw(?) my-hww, 
Cleopatr]a, these days: the last, the 17th the God[dess Epiphanes, may(?) be't made these days, 

1 See below, r4c. ‘True, we find in 13d the singular ms(t) ‘‘birth,’”’ against the plural of the above orthography, 
but such late inscriptions vary in their expressions, in order to show that the learned writer is familiar with the 
orthography of all ages. 
* Erroneously for 7 in Ros., which we follow. 
* So far after Ros. Greek 46, hierogl. ro. In the latter passage the traces of wrw become now intelligible only — 
by our parallel text. 
*’This expression was intended, as we see from the following repetition of the reference to the coronation 
day, but omitted by the present text, through confusion with the preceding reference to the king. The “‘living 
forever’’ would fit better after the mention of the birthday. 
5 Rather thus than ‘jf ‘‘great,” cp. also Ros. hierogl. 11 and above, p. 32, note 3, on the changing epithets of 
this expression. 
° The traces lead to the sign ms in a somewhat awkward form. (No other reading is possible. For the mar- 
riage day as an official yearly festival, analogies are lacking.) 
7 A broad h, perhaps a trace of a small w behind. Below only two of the vertical plural strokes are visible. 
The following abridges Ros. hierogl. 11. 
’’The date looks disfigured, at least in the season sign. We might find a trace of the day number in the 
horizontal stroke running under this group. It is not sufficiently explained as prolongation of ’r—f; it looks like 
IX—at least in the original form prolonged further to the left, where an X or XX might precede it. Such a 
restoration can not be harmonized, however, with the hieroglyphic traces, especially of r4d. 
* The visible traces allow no certain restoration like ’}wt ‘dignity, office.”’ 
The space is, it must be admitted, quite insufficient for mr followed by the article p-; the engraver may 
have omitted some signs here. 
The text of Ros. dem. 28 seems to be corrupted here, where we must expect a wishing form, like Coptic 
mar-u; this is also required according to the hieroglyphic text. I restored it accordingly. 
