June5] SOCIETYOF BIBLICAL ARCH.EOLOGY. [1894-action of the head, suchas nodding at each item, or perhaps it
meanssimply"adda unit."
0 .-"—□ \ and □ ^c\ (for nti pu ?) which are written
after summations, probably, as Prof. Eisenlohr notes, mark their
agreementwiththe number statedin the problem, " so it is."
Thissectiongivesthe value of ^, &, &, ^, -&, &, omitting,
for obvious reasons-^, (= i), T*s (= f, the equivalent \ + -fa being
givenby the preceding tableof the division of 2), and -£$ (= £).
WhyyV was included is not clear.
Thedivisionby 10 was of course of the highest importance.
It is the only number for which the scribe thought a fractional
division-tablenecessary.
PartIII. —The Stkem (completing)Calculation.
PI. IX, Commentar, p. 53 ff.
a. The firstsection comprises fourteen examples, headed by®, "chapter(?) of completion."
The operationis to take a fractional amount,e.g.,\ + -^, and
addmultiples of it until a more convenient fraction is produced.
Thefollowingtableshowswhattheseare :—
Amount. Multiplesto be added. Result.
No. 7. i + V hi i
„ 8. i f.i
» 9- i + t\ hi^1
„ 7*. i + & hi h
,, 10. i + A hi i
,, 11. T^1 hi i
„ 12. » + TT hi i
., 13- JL_ To ' JTTs L hi i
,» 14- [A] hi T..^1
„ is- -V 4- .1. hi /,
„ 16. 1 hi I
., 17.^11 3,^131
» 18. 1.^1 T»^9 -3^1 &
:, '9- (^1 213) 3'^13 -i
,, 20.^1 3J "3 A
All of those withtwo figures in the first columnhavethe second
traction basedon {. In Egypt this number is the relation onlyof
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