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THE MASTABA OF PTAHHETEP AND AKHETHBTEr.
NOTES BY THE EDITOE.
The Norries,
43. The series of nome-signs occurring in
the estate-lists of Akhethetep 011 Pls. iv., xiii.
and xiv. are of great interest as displaying well
the essential parts of the badges and throwing
light on their pictorial significance. In regard
to this, the late Ptolemaic lists, on which our
knowledge of the Symbols has hitherto been
principally based, are very unsatisfactory. In
some cases the differences between the early and
late forms of the nome-signs are so great as to
render identification difficult. For the Old
Kingdom we can Supplement the Akhethetep
series by others from the Memphite necropolis,
viz. by that of Ptahhetep (Ram., Pls. xxxiv.,
xxxv.: see also the corrections to these plates
in Part I., p. 40, of the present work) ; that of
the VIth Dynasty tomb of Sabu (Mar., Mast.,
p. 383, for which Mr. Davies has given me
his notes of the original sculpture in the Gizeh
Museum) ; and the early IVth Dynasty tomb
of Methen (L. D., ii. 3-7). The lists of Ptah-
hetep and Akhethetep contain a few nome-
signs from Upper Egypt, but naturally the
data which they furnish principally concern
Power Egypt; the nomes mentioned in the
tomb of Sabu are exclusively Avithin the limits
of the northern country. AVith regard to the
southern badges, a good deal of material might
also be gleaned from the tombs of Upper
Egypt1; this will not be discussed here, but
it may be noted that in the celebrated inscrip-
tion of Una from Abydos (1. 14) a curious and
unexplained group, obscurely written, seems
to represent the name of the Aphroditopolifce
nome, the northernmost of Upper Egypt (see
World's Best Literature, Egyptian Litera-
ture, p. 5297). We now have the same group
drawn clearly in Pls. iv., xiv., and the bronze
halberd head, harpoon head, or blade, evidently
corresponds to the " knife" of the Aphrodito-
polite nome in the Ptolemaic lists (see Part L,
p. 33, PI. xviii., No. 407). The peculiar form
of the group, written as it is without the
usual hawk-perch, is paralleled by that of the
1 Subjoined are badges of tlie southern nomes XX.
(or XXI.) and XXII., from the tomb of Khenu-ka at
Tehneh. They are copied from drawings kindly furnished
by Mr. George Fräser. The appendage to the tree appears
here plainly as a flower.—N. de G. D.
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THE MASTABA OF PTAHHETEP AND AKHETHBTEr.
NOTES BY THE EDITOE.
The Norries,
43. The series of nome-signs occurring in
the estate-lists of Akhethetep 011 Pls. iv., xiii.
and xiv. are of great interest as displaying well
the essential parts of the badges and throwing
light on their pictorial significance. In regard
to this, the late Ptolemaic lists, on which our
knowledge of the Symbols has hitherto been
principally based, are very unsatisfactory. In
some cases the differences between the early and
late forms of the nome-signs are so great as to
render identification difficult. For the Old
Kingdom we can Supplement the Akhethetep
series by others from the Memphite necropolis,
viz. by that of Ptahhetep (Ram., Pls. xxxiv.,
xxxv.: see also the corrections to these plates
in Part I., p. 40, of the present work) ; that of
the VIth Dynasty tomb of Sabu (Mar., Mast.,
p. 383, for which Mr. Davies has given me
his notes of the original sculpture in the Gizeh
Museum) ; and the early IVth Dynasty tomb
of Methen (L. D., ii. 3-7). The lists of Ptah-
hetep and Akhethetep contain a few nome-
signs from Upper Egypt, but naturally the
data which they furnish principally concern
Power Egypt; the nomes mentioned in the
tomb of Sabu are exclusively Avithin the limits
of the northern country. AVith regard to the
southern badges, a good deal of material might
also be gleaned from the tombs of Upper
Egypt1; this will not be discussed here, but
it may be noted that in the celebrated inscrip-
tion of Una from Abydos (1. 14) a curious and
unexplained group, obscurely written, seems
to represent the name of the Aphroditopolifce
nome, the northernmost of Upper Egypt (see
World's Best Literature, Egyptian Litera-
ture, p. 5297). We now have the same group
drawn clearly in Pls. iv., xiv., and the bronze
halberd head, harpoon head, or blade, evidently
corresponds to the " knife" of the Aphrodito-
polite nome in the Ptolemaic lists (see Part L,
p. 33, PI. xviii., No. 407). The peculiar form
of the group, written as it is without the
usual hawk-perch, is paralleled by that of the
1 Subjoined are badges of tlie southern nomes XX.
(or XXI.) and XXII., from the tomb of Khenu-ka at
Tehneh. They are copied from drawings kindly furnished
by Mr. George Fräser. The appendage to the tree appears
here plainly as a flower.—N. de G. D.
□