THE BILINGUAL DECREES OF PHILAE. 39 
HONORS FOR KING AND QUEEN—Continued. 
HIEROGLYPHIC TEXT. 
8 
Orw’w;p;dr;(t) 
Pth mr Pere. °c 
beloved of Ptah, and [his ante wite] Cleopatra, 
ntrwy pr(wy) m(?) hnt(?) [Awt-] ntr 
the two Gods_ Epiphanes, [in the temples?]! 
CHO ees nirwy mr(wy) [ytwy| 
much(?) together with the Gods Philopator 
—sn? hé nirwy mnhwy 
| eh begot] them (!) and the Gods Benefactors 
[gm];—sn hé ntrwy snwy 
who created these, and the Brotherly Gods 
oa 
shp|r(?)  [-sn?] nirwy nzwy 
who begot [these], (and) the Gods Saviors, 
25(!)n(w)%-sn [glm;—sn. 
their ancestors, who created these. 
beloved of Ptah, and of queen Cleopatra, the] 
DEMOTIC TEXT. 
9b 
mr Pth UP bantrw 
Gods 
hn n-rpy(w) nm | n—nt 
the temples and those which 
nt pr 
Epiphanes, in 
nm n—nt 
and those which 
[mr—ytw 
| Philopator 
nirw 
Gods 
ni(u) _n- 
belong to the 
od 
mn || n—r- t(y)-hpr-w 
who begot them 
nt(u) nirw 
belong to the Gods Euergetes] 
n—nirw sn(w) 
ge 
nm n—nt nt(u) | 
the Brotherly Gods 
and those which belong to 
'r-t(y)-hpr [n—’r]-t(y)—  bpr—w nm 
who had begotten [those having] begotten them and 
n- [nt nt(u) 
those [which belong to the Gods 
e t(y)—‘y-w.] 
their forefathers, to increase them.]° 
n—nirw nt nhm 
Soter, 
THE ROYAL STATUES. 
ob 
Miwtw s-[‘h‘| rpyt | n hqt 
And be [set up] an image of the queen, 
nbt-t,wy 
the mistress of both countries, 
Orw’w,pwdr;(t), snthmt n s, R 
Cleopatra, the sister-wife of the son of the Sungod, 
oc 
Ptw;rwmys ‘nh | [stl Pth mr 
Ptolemy, living [forever], beloved of Ptah, 
nirwy pr(wy) [h?]t m kt 
the two(!) Gods(!) Epiphanes, [. . 
1Cp. Ros. hierogl. 5. 
executed?] in work 
Visible are m (the key), the ear of hnt—head, the hawk utr, 
of 
Pee ee 
[And be set up] an 
t—pr—‘t 
the queen 
rpyt 
image 
(of) 
99 
| Glwptré <i yp oa eee eee ee 
Cleopatra, [the (sister?)-wife of king Ptolemy, living 
i [e-h 
forever, beloved of Ptah, the God Epiphanes, according to 
ypt n 2AM S91 es 
Egyptian (?) sculpture (?)-style to be placed (?) into 


©) 
, incorrectly for ‘ }¢. 
2’'The plural mechanically placed according to the following enumeration, while the second decree seems to 
have the correct limitation to ‘“His Majesty” (73d). 
3 Read: 2fn(w). 
The following relative sentence here only as superfluous addition. 
Comparison of the other 
decrees will show that the synonyms for ‘‘parents’’ are carefully selected and kept in a fixed, climatic order while 
the demotic does not possess a literary style sufficiently developed to imitate those variations. 
“ Head, two (3?) feet, and less distinct traces of the wings of a rather rudely sketched bee are visible. 
® Thus, following the version of Ros. dem. 22. 
