THE BILINGUAL DECREES OF PHILAE. 33 
THE ROYAL BENEFITS—Continued. 

HIEROGLYPHIC TEXT. DEMOTIC TEXT. 
gb 5c 
Lm r()w a ie ee oh roi. (Katy? | Fiat a ian ects 
from theshares (drduo.pa) from [the temples?] temples [of Egypt?]. [He left their shares from 
vineyards 
5d 
dy—ns(!)? hnb | . . . fel-hk-n nG)y  e-wn-n}-le-w 
(which) were paid (from) gardenland and gardens?] like? those which had been 
5e 
2] ’w-mn [my] wn fer? |") ty? seer ai pit: 
[and fields?| to remain [like] that which existed [since?] | [paid ?] under his father. 
[r]k [yt-f]  n-—[st-sn?] 
the time (of) [his father] at [their place? 7. e., former 
condition]. 
5c ¥ 
[Ray | -n?] km E-ty(?)-f woy{-w](2) 
[(There) gave| His Majesty He gave (that) were remitted . 
5f 
wn hr [pr—-n—st?| | tsw hn-e hspt 
(that which) was with (7. e., due to) [the government](?), [the faxes of 9] the nomes (?!) until year 
5g 
toast?) x": X LX n—yhw-m;(?) | hn‘(?) n-s‘nhw 
(should) be [remitted’ to the roth year?] 19,’ (of?) the new(?) fields?’ and(?) the revenues 
m ([hir?]w nw s|‘nh?] h‘ | nm n-(?) yhw(?) 
With [the duJes of the fields of revenue(?) and | and the(?) [divine domains ?] 
5d ‘ 
yiwe hmw-ntr(?) n 
the office (-tax) (of) the prophet(s) (2) for the 
6a 
pr-[n-st?] _n(?) 'r—n{ f ?] shy' | ¢y(?) ht(?) nb(?) de) pes 
[royal] house, not(?) did [he] exercise the right giving [silver, gold (and) grain(?) much?] 



1 We should expect ‘‘(the shares) of the gods”’ (nirw), after Ros. demot. 9, and we are tempted to read or 
to emendate (m, etc.) thus. 
* Correct dy-sn. The disfigurement has caused the loss of the preposition 1. 
* Ros. Gr. 15-16? This would rather require: that which was due to the temples! 
4Seems to be demotic shy, shy, syh, syh, infinitive, or noun sht, sht, of the ordinary contract formula, which 
Griffith, Rylands Pap., 203; compared with Copt. shishi “power, might,’’ evidently too narrowly, as the masculine 
derivation p-—shish “ vengeance’ ’ shows, for which the analogy of the Greek éixn, “right”? and ‘‘punishment,”’ 
forms the connection. 
*The text of Ros. (Greek 14 to 15, demot. 8 to 9) seems to have been shortened here, in both versions, 
combining the ovvrates and the daméoyuo.pa, etc. ‘Therefore, I have not dared to restore too closely after the 
early model. ‘The most important guide for us is the trace of h(e) “‘like.”’ 
° The text looks like ’n—bn ‘‘to bring bad,”’ which, of course, would be senseless. I do not understand the 
single groups as reproduced on the plates and must help myself by assuming here strong corruptions. In the 
translation I have corrected boldly after Ros. Greek 16, demot. 9 end, Damanhur 15. For the obscure pronun- 
ciation of the preposition ‘‘at the time of, under,’’ see p. 41, note Ir. 
7 This shows that the remission of taxes not paid during the revolution in “the nomes,”’ 7. e., “‘the inland,” 
is meant. 
° This group resembles the orthography of m} (e. g., in Copt. mue, mui, ‘‘island,” or m;y, ““new’’), but must 
have a different meaning here. 
