40 EGYPTOLOGICAL RESEARCHES. 
THE ROYAL STATUES—Continued. 
HIEROGLYPHIC TEXT. 
od 
DEMOTIC TEXT. 
msntyw; | ‘h‘i-[s?]} r gs (m;3— nt- wnh?| 'rpy—nb 
(of) the sculptors (which) stands(?) at the side of | the (most) prominent place?] (of) Bs ler 
[Ane ae 2 ey ode ir dn t—Kml|y yr Pilwmys, 
[the image] of [her husband?],2 the son of the Sun, | (of) Egypt [at the side of the i image of king] Ptolemy, 
ge 
Ptw;rwmys ‘nh at Pth mr | ‘nh at Pth mr p- nir nt pr 
Ptolemy, living forever, beloved of Ptah, living forever, beloved of Ptah, the God Epiphanes, 
[ntr pr] ok saan nm p-twt p—[ntr 
[the God Epiphanes,| [together with the together with the image of the [god 
[ntr—tp?] piwt(?)*—ntr t—p,wt(?)? 
highest(?) god of] the (local) divine company of the divine circle 
hr-rdt nf hps nm qn e-f ty n—f hps qny 
giving to him the sickle sword of victory, who is giving to him a sickle sword of victory, 
of 
ht hrs py 1 shilwy?].) (rm rr 
sculptured on(!)‘ that decree which made (as) engraved on(?!) the decree of the priests of 
1od 
wbw [nw] prw-m;‘t(?) n hspt® IX(?)| | ’rplyw(?) n(?) hspt IX?) 
the priests [of the] temples in the year 9(?) the temp]les [from] the year  9(?) 
a he Ae oa S} R' Ptwrwmys| n pr—-‘ | Ptlwmys ‘nh at 
[Mesoré 9?|° of the son of the Sungod, Ptolemy, of king Ptolemy, living forever, 
‘nh _ et, Pthmr, hr Pth mr hr nf—|mt?|—qnw(?) 
living forever, beloved of Ptah, containing beloved of Ptah, containing his victories 



1The reading Bgt, ‘(the sculptors of) Egypt,’’ which we should expect after Ros. Greek 39, demot. 23, Philz 
II, 14c, can be forced only with difficulty on the stone; the big oval hollow, in which I first tried to find the sign bg, 
is secondary. ‘The traces look most like a broad ‘h‘ with a small ‘Ain stuck through it and, after’a gap, an s. 
This yields, of course, an awkward construction where we should expect, at least, the causative verb: s— ‘h‘ 
“it shall be established.”’ (The mention of “Egyptian style’? must stand in the gap before jh). 
2 We should expect  h;y-s, as above restored, but the traces are very different. After the rather probable 
high 2 (the crown), there seems to stand an irregular, very broad ; the traces under its nearer end like two 
legs (?). Read simply: “‘the king of Upper and Lower Egypt’’? 
’ The sense is secured by Ros. Gr. 39, ‘‘the chief god.” Tp “‘first, chief,’ is extant only in uncertain traces, 
and p;wt (or pszt?) “divine cycle, divine company,” is engraved as though it was misread nw. Cp. the “‘second’”’ 
decree, lines 15), 15d, for an apparently different treatment of the same expression. 
‘We imitate the ambiguity confusing the flat pictures on the stela and the portable statues in the round. 
* More favorable to the reading XIX (cp. 13d), but see the demotic. 
°I first thought of the date, not of the priestly convention at which the decree was passed, but of the day 
when the victory was reported to the king, and read “year XIX,” seeing an abnormally large and straight X in 
the two strokes over and before the IX and then, before these, the abbreviation for “‘year.”” The latter group, 
however, seems to be the last signs of ’rpyw “‘temples’’; therefore the expression “‘year’’ is to be found in those 
two strokes behind, so that we have to read “‘year [X.’’ Consequently, the decree of Rosetta is meant, especially 
its lines 22-23. ‘The priests evidently thought that the time was too short to execute the honors to the king set 
forth in the decree of year XIX, and rather connected the new honors with those of year IX without considera- 
tion of the fact that the latter had not been executed in many temples, owing to the insurrection. See ‘‘second”’ 
decree, hierogl. 75c, for the question of a reference.: 
7’ Thus the group (Ros. dem. 23) is to be read. See Rhind, Gloss. Moeller, No. 126. 
(Less probably t-pszt: 
“‘the circle of nine, the.ennead’’?) 
