Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology

June5] PROCEEDINGS. [1894.

No. 84. Foodof cattle. This is extremely inaccurate and

unintelligible; the following mayhelp:—

1

1. Estimate of the food of the
   stallof cattle


2. Bull eats 4 fine bull of south 2


3. 2 2


4. 3 common cattle 2
   5- 1 2


5. Total of these bulls 8


6. Makes in beteti-com heqat


7. Makes in 10 days


8. Makes in a month


9. Makes in double heqatnorthern
   corn(?)
   I defy anyoneto make senseof all this.
   .. (food) : common(food)
   heqat heqat

4 2

2 6

2

6 10

9 7*

(^9075)
200 (sic) 90 (sic)
6i454 3°
Thenumbersafter84, facsimiled in PI. XXIV, do not belong to
the Mathematical Text.
The " motto " No. 85 is perhaps a piece of cryptic writing; I
haveto note onlythatthe end of I. 1 is broken awayandthe lower
halfof the last signis hidden by a patch : the sign shouldbe ao,
not /wvwa, as read by Eisenlohr.
No. 87. These curiousjottingsare : —
{o^TTH^^M©- "Yearii, 2nd monthof
harvest,one entered Heliopolis."
«?
a. 1. ^"^ JM „-<=>.^a^^_"^ %. "1stmonth of
II OQI I — /W^AA
inundation,da;f 23

2. k *l
   Zaru."

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ceived.

V

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4- 7\

%. © to-morrow (?) to

fc'S " Day^25 ; the newswas re-

©. ThatZaruhad been entered."

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