‘THE BILINGUAL DECREES OF PHILAE. 37 
THE ROYAL BENEFITS—Continued. 


HIEROGLYPHIC TEXT. DEMOTIC TEXT. 
‘ ‘ : e 
r[p]‘y[we] (2) [ntrwt nw] Bat n shmw | n n- ntirw e(!) t}R-Kmy 
the idols _—_ [of the goddesses(?) of] Egypt of (the) statues of the gods(!) of Egypt, 
7f 
ew. | 
; they [doing everything i in their fonor 2 
h’(?) ['hwt?|-nir(?)-[sn?] | hr- ’r(é) [e] ty) ’r-w hbw e(?) n-ntrw n 
and(?) [their(?) divine things ?] making [to] let be made festivals for® the gods of 
“bwt slqr wdn 
sacrifices, [pouring out of libations(?) 
holocausts(?) and the rest of the things ‘done(?)] 
79 
n rpr?jw nw  nirw ee ih-Kmy | nm  n-nirwt tr—-w 
in (?) the temples of the gods [of Egypt?] Egypt and the goddesses all together . 
B (?) (mirwi? . . || 
and (?) [all the goddesses ?] 
7d 7h 
8a 
hr htpw(?) -sn hr hwt(?) [-sn]| |. . 2. mm n[w?] ‘rpyw. 
for(?) their cults(?) together with [their] temples(?). - » « ~» and (?) the(ir?) temples. 
(or: estates ?) 
THE THANKS OF THE GODS. 
7eé 8b 
| [| (m?-)’swy nn |] rdy-n nirw etic cs ha (Auepeke ane ann tae C8: 
[In return for these things]? have given the gods (The gods have given in return for] these( ?) 
nirwt |nw|] Bgt r—[zr?|-sn*(?) [rnpwt?]* | mt-nfr(!) 
(and) goddesses [of] Egypt all together(?) [years?] kindnesses 
7f 
‘S(w) m  q{[nw] | nhti ‘nh, ws; 
many in mitht, strength, life, welfare, 
snby n n—St ’byty 
health, to the king of U. and L,. Egypt, 



1 The traces make the restoration ntrw, ‘‘gods’’, of which we should think first very difficult. If we have to 
restore 7[p]°y[w#], this word, limited to female statues, alone requires a limitation of the gifts to ‘“‘the goddesses.”’ 
This shows the queen as feeling herself one of the goddesses in mentioning the goddesses first or exclusively. 
(The demotic betrays its confusion of “gods” and ‘“‘goddesses”’ in the feminine form ‘‘others’’). Meaning: the 
queen renounced an income from an alleged cult? 
* After Ros. hierogl. 5. Possibly for mm “‘these things’’ a fuller expression is to be restored. 
’ The traces would then seem to be accidental. 
*The trace below would suggest that the ideograph stood between the determinative (?) and the plural 
strokes, but it is of rather peculiar shape. I first read it mw. The text certainly varies from the Rosettana. 
* A verb ought to follow in this construction, which is usually “‘participial’’, according to the usage of Coptic 
grammar. 
° Instead of (e)x. 
7 Incomplete group. 
