36 EGYPTOLOGICAL RESEARCHES. 
THE ROYAL BENEFITS—Continued. 

HIEROGLYPHIC TEXT. DEMOTIC TEXT. 
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m-—(?) [hr—-h3t?] | [dy(?)-sn?] wn tr-w | é-w s—mn[-w?] nt(u)—w ty 
[beforehand ?], [letting them?] be(?) allofthem they established [them?]* and they took 
6h 
[—sn?] n{ty?] myfwey mil. 4 . o 2 0. 
[them?] From those [which (were?)] oppressive(?) of(?) | (away)® [the taxes for the service of the Goddess Phila- 
7a 
phy(w?) ty C)h(w)t on ee tw «6 ote es ae 
the honors(?),! taking (away?) the thing(s) of delphe and the Gods Philopator as being burdensome 
(i. e., taxes for) 
6f 
| wdnw nw [ntrt?| sn(w)—mrt . . n-rm(t)w nb(?) 
the sacrifices of [the Goddess?] Loving the Brother | to] the people all (?) 
h‘ ntrwy mr(wy) (y)twy. 
(Philadelphe?)? and the Gods Philopator. 

’'Skw rdy—-n hat nb(t) 
Also gave the queen, the mistress 
74 7b B 7c 
iwy | QOrw’w;prdr;(t) snt hmt Pr—‘t Glwptré t-snt t | shmt n 
of both countries, Cleopatra, the  sister-wife The queen Cleopatra, thesister (and) wife of 
n Salt Piw;rwmy(s ‘nh 
of the son of the Sungod, Ptolemy, living 
at, Pth mr SiON Dlr www st ee 
forever, beloved of Ptah, [presents of?]* ki[ng Ptolemy, living forever, beloved of Ptah, 
sie ey 7d 
hz, nb, | Swt-nb(t) n—[m;‘t] mt—pht (1) w - Weegee 
silver, gold, allstones [genuine] (7. ¢., precious), | gave] (signs of) honor [of gold, silver, stones] 
my—‘s 3 [kt?-|w (2) m ‘(t) ‘S(y?) n n—kt(1)—w® 
in great quantity for [the others?] (of) genuine’ in great quantity for the others — 



1 Two words, the sense of which remains doubtful for the present. For py I have compared the demotic ~ 
mt—pht(y): “that which becomes, is due, honor.”” ‘The trace of the determinative might point to the arm with 
a hook (or to the plural ending -w?). The /;-sign of m(y)}w seems to be certain, although on the stone it looks 
more like the ideogram (s)mn. ‘The word means “ weighty, burdensome.”’ 
2 This means Arsinoé, the sister and wife of Ptolemy II. The group which I have restored to “goddess ”’ 
might be merely the feminine article, 4. ‘The above expression refers to the arduopa of one-sixth, from gardens 
and vineyards, formerly paid to the temples, then transferred to the royal house, under pretext of a cult to the 
divine queen, which began in her lifetime. (See Mahaffy, Empire of the Ptol., 143.) That cultwas based, I believe, 
principally on the return to the old institution of sister-marriage, by which the royal house of Egypt once had 
imitated the gods. The above expressions referring to it are very remarkable, trying to disguise the material 
aim of the institution. The true character of that tax is, however, betrayed by its parallelism with what is 
mentioned before as oppressive usage. (The orthography of sm “‘brother’’ with the phonetic complement nw is 
not rare in Greco-Roman time. The graphic arrangement of the groups, with the object written before the verb 
and pronounced after it, is the same archaism which we find in the name of Ptolemy ‘beloved of Ptah,” 
written Pth—mr(y). 
3 The space somewhat narrow for this? An indistinct bird only visible. 
* Not participle: “(they being established)” as written here. Cp. Ros. Gr. 33, dem. 19. 
° Apparently thus, although the ornamental filling stroke (usually a dot) under the sign ty is not regular in 
our text. : 
° Not the usual orthography for the plural of kt, but archaic. 
’’Thus rather than [¢-w] my-—‘sy, which would be too remarkable an archaism for demotic. 
