Mar.4] SOCIETYOF BIBLICAL ARCHEOLOGY. [1890.
schedule): 1 f=T>t agreeingwith m would referto 1 ^ ^ above,
ill Hi ■ 1 being almostequal to |J g , but being preferredto
it owing to the compound fj a jJ Cj3.
" I established a ^a-house for the kas of my father."
Strictly speaking, I believe a man had only one ka, but the
pluralis usedsimilarlyelsewhere,*perhapsin the sense of ka-statues.
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Lines104-113: The meaning is very doubtful.
sica. (I o JK7 |f : in 1. 185 if is equivalent to e=*^ or \\ :
whether it is the determinative of, or separate from(] 0 J O is
not certain:f* I must quotea later text, the very curiousrecord of a sale of land,
publishedby M. Bouriant, Rec.de trav., ix, 100. It is dated in the 66th yearofIIIIIIIHP I * MWA
O Hi £& • '^'1's mayP6'^3?8^ translated : " Whereas is given ar
dudti? to thee the price of this land, namelyto this my mother (whois the
servantof the kas ( N. B. ) of the priest and Kherheb Nekht menthu),uponthe west
of the canal of Hermonthis. (Therefore')is assured to him ahantusmnnftthe
landwhichwas of Aputa," I.e. lines 5-8. It would be of great importanceto
knowwherethis uniquedocumentis to be found.
t Max Miiller'singeniousand plausible interpretation,Rtc.detrav.,ix, p. 170,
includesan apparently wrongidentificationof the sign TT with the 0 series,
somevarietiesof which resembleit very closely: but the doubled stringl| is a
distinctivemark. f\ 0 J ^ " to sweep together,"andQ ~^ilJ " to offer."
Brugsch,Wtb.,Supplement,p. 30, may be compared.
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