Birch, Samuel [Editor]: Facsimile of an Egyptian Hieratic papyrus of the reign of Ramses III, now in the British Museum: [bekannt unter dem Namen. Der große Papyrus Harris] (London, 1876)

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Line 9. Grapes, bunches1 1,869 ;

Line 10. Fruit of the vine2 ptaru, measures 375 ;

Line 11. Dates, apts 1,668 ;

Line 12. Cattle, various, 299 ;

Line 13. Geese, live, 2,940 ;

Line 14. Geese, live,3 6,200 ;

Line 15. Waterfowl 126,300 ;

PLATE XYIb.

Line 1. Fat geese4 in flocks5 20 ;

Line 2. Natron, bricks 44,000 ;

Line 3. Salt, bricks 44,000 ;

Line 4. Greens, ropes 180 ;

Line 5. Greens, loads 50 ;

Line 6. Greens, foreparts6 77;

Line 7. Greens, uauat, 2 ;

Line 8. Sebax plants7 60 ;

Line 9. Past* fruit, bexens0 115 ;

Line 10. Cassia10 60 ;

Line 11. Onions, bunches 50 ;

Line 12. Select11 and pure, pounds 750 ;

Line 13. Corn for the divine offerings of the festivals of the heaven, and the annual

festivals which Ra-user-ma, beloved of Amen the living, the great god
Line 14. gave in addition to his father, Amen Ra, the king of the gods Mut, Chonsu,

and all the gods of Uas,12 besides the daily offerings made to double those

which were before13
Line 15. those which were before from his first year to his thirty-first year, making

thirty-one years, 2,981,674" bushels.

PLATE XYIIa.

Line 1. The offerings of the sacrifices15 augmented by the king Ra-user-ma, beloved

of Amen the living, the great god, to his father, Amen
Line 2. Ra, the king of the gods Mut, Chonsu, and all the gods of Uas16 for the

twenty-day offerings of the sacrifices.

mahu, " crowns " or
Ο

■' clusters."

ΛΛΛΛΛΛ <^^>

πι ι m i^ ^S>-
aluhama, " dried grapes " or " raisins."

Kind called turp.

Ο χβρβη, applied only to geese.

ΛΛ/WVv

I Xs—a saOi, to lead, drive, conduct.

Ι ω \\

η ww« ^j^ I A ^ senruhaOa. The word in

©

ΛΜΛ/Ά

reckoned.

\ bexfin, the quantity or form in which

lines 4-7 is uat, " greens."
7 Γ J 1 ^ ^ seha^-> a Part of the

onion, un-

determined plant.

c \^[ past, the root means " separated "
or " divided," but it is an undetermined plant.

10 kanana, or " cinnamon." Or else atenanau. See

above.

11 w π matt or mater, apparently a
quantity.

12 The Thehaid.

13 The scribe by accident has repeated the phrase.

14 Million is expressed by 29 times 100,000, the

highest cipher in this papyrus being the
tadpole, ^, hefnu, 100,000.

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16 TheThebaid.

âb, or "festivals."

Line 3. Ra-user-ma, beloved of Amen the living, making the festivals of the Thebaid
to Amen, from the 26th of the month Pashons to the 15th of the month
Payni,
Line 4. making twenty days, from the twenty-second to the thirty-first year, making

eleven years, with the offerings of
Line 5. the festivals of Southern Apet17 from the 19th of the month Paophi to the

15th of the month Athor, making twenty-seven days from
Line 6. the first to the thirty-first year, making thirty-one years.
Line 7. Best bread18 for offerings, great pieces 1,057;
Line 8. Best bread, great tails19 1,277;
Line 9. Best bread, large phalli20 1,277;
Line 10. Best bread, like enclosures,21 440 ;
Line 11. Best bread for offerings, great rolls22 43,620 ;
Line 12. Papyrus roots,23 for the place of incense, 685 ;
Line 13. Beer for the cellar, bottles24 4,401 making ;

Line 14. Best bread, flesh, and fruit25 for the shew26 places, great baskets 165 ;
Line 15. Good bread, flesh, flower, great baskets 485 ;

PLATE XVIIè.

Line 1. Best bread, flesh, fruit, for eating, great baskets 11,120 ;

Line 2. Best bread, flesh, fruit, for eating, tai21 9,845 ;

Line 3. Best bread, flesh, fruit, plates,28 for the chief [of the temple], 3,720 ;

Line 4. Best bread, for divine offerings, full baskets 375 ;

Line 5. Best bread, for divine offermgs, baats™ 62,540 ;

Line 6. Best bread, for divine offerings, jjers30 106,792 ;

Line 7. Best bread, for divine offerings, of white flour, pyramids31 13,020 ;

Line 8. Best bread, great loaves, for food, 6,200 ;

17 Apt ras, Southern Apet, or the Karnak quarter

of Thebes.

18 I nefer, " good," evidently some kind or

quality of bread ; the phrase after offerings
is -ft- α hetp äa, " great measures " or

" baskets " of some kind.

for-"

Δ

sat äa, " great ears " or
tails," "evidently alluding to the form in
which the loaf was made.

2o i] 8 ,0=^ J^. <r"=' haJii äa, refers either to a
great measure or basket, hetp, of bread, of
that shape, which is the ()«*» Q ta
en bah of the Calendar of Medinat Habu.
Brugsch, Wort., s. 1534. Probably one of
the fanciful shapes of bread, like our present
" twists " and " rolls."

si t\ <=> ! ^ g==i mer nu ta, " enclosures of
the land," another form of bread.

23 fj- tna, or heteps, « great baskets " or "mea-
sures."

Ο

III ^^

the wird t'ama means "papyrus," when
manufactured as in a "roll" or "book," the
Coptic 2C03JUL, as it is for the place of
incense tern supposed " or

s^ftjl

t'amä teru,

CT3 R "" Ö he1 ûk heq. The second
hekt must mean the bottles or quantities.

ruhusu. This word occurs

1 τ

I I I

in Select Papyri, pi. xiv, 1. 3, and xvi, 1. 2,
in connection with sai, " viands," and hek,
" beer," and other eatables. It was mea-
sured, 100 hetps, or baskets, of it being-
mentioned. Here in the subsequent line it
is measured with the bread and viands by
"great baskets," ^l^M hetp-äa.
Perhaps it expresses fruit or a kind of grain.

maa, place where they

could be seen, like the Hebrew " shew-
bread."

rf^f I 0 Q "ft " -il- t\ % ^ t'ai or t'nai

en her arm, the bat. This expression must
differ from the preceding.

β v\ Ü 4 Ö &ah vases) plates, or quantities
of some kind.

J y VÏSk ί^=Α bàat, a kind of loaf.

A round loaf or biscuit.

Probably the kind called pyramis, pyramous,
or pyramid, by Athenaeus, xvi, p. 647 c ; iii,
4 δ.

Line 9. Best bread, ornamental pastry,32 24,800 ;

Line 10. Best bread, biscuits,33 1,665;

Line 11. Best bread, great loaves, 992,750 ;

Line 12. Best bread, baked34 loaves, 17,340 ;

Line 13. Best bread, white pyramidal loaves, for offering, 57,200 ;

Line 14. Best bread, pyramidal loaves, 456,700;

Line 15. Best bread, buns, kolusta,z'° 441,800 ;

PLATE XVIII^.

Line 1. Best bread, for offering, loaves, 127,400;

Line 2. Kiki,36 white pyramidal loaves, 116,400;

Line 3. Best bread, cakes, 262,000 ;

Line 4. Total of good bread, different loaves, 2,844,357;

Line 5. Viands and flour,37 sacks,38 344 ;

Line 6. Flour, apts 48,410 ;

Line 7. Fine flour, apts 28,200 ;

Line 8. Meal, plates39 3,130 ;

Line 9. Spirits40 of wine, amphorae 2,210 ;

Line 10. Spirits of wine, caabs 310 ;

Line 11. Wine, amphora? 39,510 ;

Line 12. Total spirit and wine, mnas 42,030 ;

Line 13. Beer various, hins 219,214 ;

Line 14. Sweet beka,41 mnas 93 ;

Line 15. Sweet beka, hins 11,000 ;

PLATE XVIII&

Line 1. Fresh incense,42 amphora? 62 ;

Line 2. Incense, apt, various, 308,093, amounting to43

Line 3. Incense, for burning,44 amphorse 778 ;

Line 4. Red beka, amphorse 31;

mäti, the last character is uncertain, perhaps
I) as in the word mata, " dress." Brugsch,
Wort., s. 606.

the fire," or " biscuit," as all bread was
baked, and this must refer to some additional
action of the fire.

O^ α ^ ^ ••"Ü ° or^tii «fa en.....

Last character doubtful, as it does not recur ;
pusa is cooked loaves of some particular kind,
as of bat, "barley," but such are not mentioned,
although the last character might be a form

of .•''' a corn or barley measure.

____. kaluffla, the καλλιστευς, " a

Ι Mill

pointed cake," or kind of Egyptian bread.

Pollux, Onomastikon ; Lauth, Zeitschr. für

ägypt. Spr., 1868, p. 91.

«

ΛΛΛΛΛΛ ("*)

Ali X>____qaunka, perhaps κικι.

nchusa. See above.

j\ eemOem. Coptic
TCAXJUJUte, sacculus.

PΕ

I I

suak, " chopped up," or " mince.'

Ö tut, same as tut, a kind of dish or
platter on a foot.

Ό sethu, Brugsch, Wort., 1418,
" mead " or " effervescent wine."

41 J Δ ζ) Ö beqa, Brugsch, Wort., 455, " olive

oil," "fine oil"; "oil" or " sesamum," or,
according to some, " dates " or " conserves
of dates," probably " palm wine."

**- sent neter uat, perhaps " fresh " or " "Teen."
13 The number of pounds weight is here omitted.

441Δ Ί^ -^x '4sqau"some action °f fire'

as fumigating or lighting.