Mar.6] SOCIETYOF BIBLICAL ARCH/EOLOGY. [1894.
I confine myselfto pointing out the above instances,in support of
the value 11|\ , 'KS. (I , as one of the sounds, if not the sound, as
signedto the character 1 — 1 , when usedphoneticallyin compound
groups. It will be noticed that 1 — 1 is, in many cases,followedby
the bar, |, which, accordingto M. Erman,* maybe considered as a
kindof determinative added to substantives whichare written with
onesinglesignandwithoutany other determinative.
Withregardto the meaning of the group —*_ ( var. M I
mast,it is by no means clear. Thewordoccursin the well-known pas
sageof the d'Orbiney-pap>rus (p. 16, 4) where the Princess asksthe
Kingto let her eat the 1 — 1 I q mast, of the Bull. Hereit has generally
been translatedliver,andelsewhereby M. Chabas greatintestineA
Mr.Brugsch has suggested, that mast mayhavesomeconnection
withthe name of Amset, one of the four funerealgenii,whopre
sidesover the embalmed viscera. The determinativeswhichac
companythe said group are generally Q and F}, but in some
instancesa special sign,^ , is attached to it. It is illustrated by
a picture in a tomb at Saqqarah, described by Mariette,§ repre
senting a servant who brings on his left shoulder the leg of a
slaughteredanimalandoffersas sacrifice in his extended righthand,
the object above figured, which is painted in red and called
2 "6 , mast, in the descriptive text. Henceit would seemthatit
represents an internal organ of the animal's body, perhaps the
stomach. The group « occurs several times in the Ebers-
papyrus (pp.36, I. 9 ; 66, 5 ; 67, 7), but in neither passagedoes
the context giveany clue to its exact meaning.* Acgyptische Grammatik,§ 51. t Pierret, Lexicon,p. 226.
X Lexicon, p. 589 ; compare alsoP. le Page Renouf,ProceedingsVIII,p. 24S.
§ Mastabas, pp. 274 and 277.W<?
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