Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology

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™' «Jt« X„p&v* a"dK^^S|gP||j(]||^U^tgives

for ^as 'he evident valueof king, tick te avw km to* Ktnw xa!Pu"'t
althoughthe phrase must in that case refer to fiaaiXew? and not to
fiaatXeii..^

"I and 5fa,"Mr. Renouf says, + "are divineand priestly
titleswhich haveno reference to earthly geography;" but we think
it possible to show froman inscription whoseage gives it far more
authoritythan a text contemporary with the Rosetta Stone can
possess, that, whatever the original meanings of the words, the

EgyptiansregardedJ. as an appropriate title for the ruler of the
South,and J8Q as an appropriate title for the ruler of the North.
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In the reign of the Ethiopian kingSabaka,a very ancient and
muchmutilatedmythologicalinscriptionin the temple of Ptehu at
Memphiswas re-copied, and the copy set up in the temple in place
of the original. Thiscopy,nowin its turn much mutilated, forms
part of the British Museumcollection,in which it is numbered 135*
The text has been publishedby Sharpeg and translated by Goodwin. ||
The first part of the inscription relatesto the drowning of Ausari ;
the middle is absolutely indecipherable; and the last part details
the reconciliation betweenHeruand Suti throughthe mediation of
Sebu,and the partition of " the two lands," whetherof Egypt or of
the earth may perhaps be doubtful, betweenthem.

(Sr5>3HBAn is the name of the twenty-first nomeof Lower

Egypt, wherethe boundary-line betweenthe two divisions of the

* Rosetta Stone,lines 2 and 3.

t Stele of Damanhur, tine 2.

% Proc. Soc.Bib!.Arch.,Vol.XIV,pp. no, III.

§ Egypt. Inur.,PI. 36-38.

I! Mel. Egypt.,Serie3, Tom. I, pp. 247-2S5.

If Sharpe, Egypt.Inscr.,PI. 36, line 16.

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