Nov.7] PROCEEDINGS. [1893.
1859,had been made by Miss Harris;thatthe original had been
mounted with the aid of Sir Gardiner Wilkinson, and was at
NettlehamHallin Lincolnshire. She did not recognize the tracing
of Dr. Eisenlohr as a copy of that papyrus. On examination, how
ever,it proved to be the original, withnumeroustextsand vignettes
omitted. Fivehieroglyphicinscriptions,completingthe part called
the papyrus of the Fayoum, were communicated by me to the
Leeman'sVolume.
My examination of the so-called " Labyrinth papyrus" enabled
me to show thatit is, in fact, a fragment of what was once a con
tinuousvolume. It is 67 inches long. It ends witha ragged edge,
where it was torn from the piece in the Gizeh Museum. The
sternsof the two boats withthreeinscriptions,and a double vertical
line,terminatethis portion. (SeePlateIII.)
The Fayoum sectionthereforemaybe completed by adding, at
the right, to the boat on the canal of the South, a stern witha hawk
as a figure-head, similarto that on the prow, facingthe same way,
and a post with a steering oar, each surmounted by a hawk's head.
Abovethe stern ornamentare two vertical lines:
\0)\The boat of the North, similarlyprovidedwith a stern post and
rudder,has the figure-head of the ram, but also repeats the sphinx
and palm leaf. Immediatelybehind the figure of Sevek, extending
fromthe middle of the papyrus to his shoulder is :It is a piece of singular good fortune that Mr. Hood also
acquiredand preserved a fragment whichcontainsthe end of the
Moerispapyrus. Its greatest widthis about threeinches. On the
left it has been trimmedwitha knife. The raggededgeon the
rightcontainsa thick curvedline which belongs to the basin num
beredby Dr. Pleijte XIV. The cornersI-IVand XIV are filled
witha terminal ornament, 2*3 inches longand 1/4 inches high,
formedby a vertical line and the inner horizontalline of the papyrus,
witha re-entrant curvein the shape of a consol. Linesa have three
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