Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology

Mar.4] PROCEEDINGS. [1890.

Oq'C

Noteson Egyptian Textsof the MiddleKingdom.—II.

By F. L. Griffith.

I have recentlyreceived,through the kindness of Dr. Krebs,
a copy of his valuable Dissertation* on the great inscription of
Khnumhotepat Benihasan. Manypassagesare most satisfactorily
explainedin it, but in some casesProfessorMaspero'stranslationf

of 1879 is to be preferred.

Theoriginalof this important inscriptionwas written withrather

more than the usual amountof carelessness. RidiculouserrorsJ

(*~ A ^ for <rz> ^ ^ , 1. 30, superfluous =±s=,1. 82, omission

of 1 1 1. 137, eta,etc.) prove thatlessobviousmistakes maybe

looked for in obscure passages. Thecopiesalso are not entirely

satisfactory.

Lines80-81. AhartsmttM-na-sf a lwe!=i U ==

4 IS I W 1 1 1 _a^i 1

mc sic

Aha always takes , viz. ■ Y l\ m tne PaPyr' (Saneha,

Prisse,Mathematical-Rhind): at Siut§ (I, 247, correctedby Erman

in pi. 21) and at Rifeh (VII,50) a A •

Read|-^trfpg^|^etc.

" (As prince in Menat-Khufu) I established it (the city)andits

treasuresgrewin all kinds of things."

Lines81-3: smnkh-na[J | ,7, , I), , ,.

Thiscan hardly be explained as it stands. Possibly[J [es] \f, [-|

is1 the "chamber of the kas" in the temple as at Siut [J {j (I, 1. 285,

* De Chnemothis Nomarchiet Commentatio, Berlin 1890 (in Latin).

+ Rectuil de travaux, i, p. 160 ff. Compare alsoPiehl'snotes,A.Z.,xxv,

P-34ff.

X Dr. Krebs has silentlycorrectedsomeof these.

§ The referencesare to my own publication,The Inscriptionsof Siutand Der

Rl/eh,Triibner,1889. I prefer to quote the number of the tomb, not of the

plate,as a revised editionof the texts mnywellbe hoped for.

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