Mar.6] SOCIETYOF BIBLICAL ARCHEOLOGY. [1894.
recordsof offices exercisedand honours obtainedandthosedeclara
tionsof piety and charity whichrecallthe Book of the Dead, ch. 25,
—did we not know, from the date uponthe Munich stele,that the
dedicatorof bothlivedsomeyearslonger.*
Thesteleat Munich has other featuresof interest. Theopening
" proscynema" is followed by a form of the offering-list not to be
found,so far as I know, exceptduringthe earlier yearsof the Middle
kingdom.t Then comesthe usual festival-calendarand,afterit (and
againin I. 15,) a blank spacefromwhichthe name and titles of the
dedicator have been carefully erased, as on his other stele,at
Leyden; \ though there the erasures are not such as to make the
signsillegible.
It may be useful to give here the more important variants
between Dumichen'scopyandmine(distinguishedas D. and C).
Thereare besides, manysmallerdivergencies,scarcelyworthnoting;
such,for instance, as those in the curious list of divinities (lI. 7, 8,)
which can be controlled fromthe two similarlists at Paris § and
C. , &c. Morenoteworthyare :—
L. 6 ; D. www , C. w*~\. The phraseOnutnb(t)rnpt 5 hru,
® ei D d
" (on) eachof the five extra days,"can be best paralleled in Sharpe
I, 25.II* The dateat Leyden is Usrtsn I, year 44 = Amnmhat II, year 2 ; that at
Munichis indistinct, but cannot be earlier thanAmnmhatII, year 6 and is pro
bablyat least year13. Erman(Aegypten,234,)takesthe Leydendateto be that
of the dedicator's death. If that be so, the date at Munich mustratherindicate
the time at which the stele was erected as a posthumous memorial. But in that
case,we might expectthe formula, / ~w^ &>^ I It" *-^
&c,, .. ...or the like. i -xrx^l^1 © ^^
t The otherexamples; Piehl, 82, A. Sharpe, I, 25, Louvre, C. 14, Abydos,
II. 53*.
X Erman, l.l. Whetherfromdesignor accident, the otherrecurrencesof the
nameand titles, in eachof the inscriptions, haveremainedundamaged.
§ Louvre, C. 15.
|| A.Z "8i 18 - Rec. Ill,nS. For D. ~"~ Jft , 1 read T^3) , and
r.ff)Ofi} ® \\l_l 111-1
for Q sil ' a $H {"c) Rtyt, as L'D- n» i49 d- 9'
1 Cf. M. Miiller, Rec.IX, 174. I do not see that any other translationis
herepossible,
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