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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PLATE XXXIV&.

Line 1. Striped persea wood, cubits 2 ;

Line 2. The sycamore stand of a balance of 3 ells 4 spithams ;

Line 3. Wood plugs1 and clamps2 of a bin,3 1 ;

Line 4. Olive ground laid out4 1, making 534; acres ;

Line 5. Vineyard of different kinds of trees laid out, 2 ;

Line 6. Corn for the sacred supplies of the festivals of the heaven and the annual

festival which added
Line 7. the king, Ra-user-ma, beloved of Amen the living, the great god, to his great

father, Turn, lord of the land of An, Ra, Haremakhu,
Line 8. in addition to the daily5 supplies which were doubled before the living

lord from
Line 9. commencing at the first year and terminating at the thirty-first year,

bushels6 197,624 ;
Line 11. The offerings to the sacrifices which were added by the king, Ra-user-ma,

beloved of Amen the living, the great god, to that house,
Line 12. in addition to the sacrifices which were at first, year by year commencing

in his ninth year, and continuing to his thirty-first year, making twenty-
three years ;
Line 13. good bread offered to the place of offering, great baskets 460 ;
Line 14. good bread in shape of a phallus, quantities7 4,400.

PLATE XXXV«.

Line 1. Good bread for offerings, great loaves8 23,000 ;

Line 2. Good bread, bushels of offerings 80,500 ;

Line 3. Good bread, loaves of burnt offerings9 30,200 ;

Line 4. Good bread, great cakes 460,000 ;

Line 5. Good bread, tall pyramids 80,500 ;

Line 6. Good bread, white pyramids,10 for offerings, 920,000 ;

Line 7. Good bread, white pyramids, caps11 103,500 ;

Line 8. Good bread, kallusta,12 loaves 34,500 ;

Line 9. Good bread for offerings, loaves 80,500 ;

Line 10. Cakes,13 pyramids 80,500 ;

teruu, applied to papyrus rolls
for incense. Vide supra.

m V\ ^r^- äkanä, an object made of

■wood. Something of the same kind is men-
tioned, Lepsius, Denk., iv, 46, 9. m G #
äkanu, with the determinative of a face.

7 fy the hetp, " table " or " mat," or else tna,
" basket,"

Same expression.

ra

Δ

a form of the word

maqaru, apparently

makarut,

« a bin," " magazine," or " box." Cf.
Brugsch, Wort., s. 368.

Öäperu, " prepared."
àmeni t, here determined by o, a solar disk.
Tj hetp.

hau, simpler form of

ra

ha ha, "flame." Brugsch, Wort., 910.

rv 0 A c^3> tahut, kind of pyramidal

cake.

J J 1 berber, form of J J Λ

ben ben, " a pyramidion," or " loaf." Cf.
Brugsch, Wort., p. 406, berber, " grain " or
" corn."

y...... -JE I \\ * 1 *^\

3 v\ff=n kalusetu, the bread called

καλλκττβδβ, Lauth in Zeitschr. für ägypt. Spr.,
1868, p. 91. Coptic KpoX, ΚρΟΎχ

I I i

qau

a peculiar bread.

Line 11. Total good bread, loaves various, 1,760,420 ;
Line 12. Rations of food of beef, 69,000 ;
Line 13. Rations of barley,14 11,500 ;

PLATE XXXVè.

Line 1. Rations of food, flour,15 tapurata™ 2,425 ;

Line 2. Rations of flour, small sacks17 46 ;

Line 3. Beer, pints18 198,260 ;

Line 4. Spirits, mnas 1,380 ;

Line 5. Spirits, caabs 2,390 ;

Line 6. Wine, mnas 16,100 ;

Line 7. Total of spirits, wine, mnas and caabs 20,470 ;

Line 8. Cows, 363 ;

Line 9. Heifers, 1,886 ;

Line 10. Bulls,19 703 ;

Line 11. Steers,201,242 ;

Line 13. Cattle, 5,311 ;

Line 14. Total of cattle, various, 11,960 ;

Line 15. Cows of the leucoryx, 230 ;

PLATE XXXVIri.

Line 1. Geese, living, 1,150 ;

Line 2. Goslings,21 living, 2,300 ;

Line 3. Waterfowl, 1,380 ;

Line 4. Total of waterfowl, living, 17,250 ;

Line 5. Honey, pints22 92 ;

Line 6. Frankincense, Icaherka pots 9,200 ;

Line 7. Frankincense, vases of cakes,23 45,000 ;

Line 8. Fresh frankincense, pyramids 1,150 ;

Line 9. Frankincense baskets, hetps 34,500 ;

Line 10. Frankincense, baskets 26,500 ;

Line 11. Frankincense, vases 26,000 ;

Line 12. Papyrus covers,24 made for frankincense, various, apts 33,550 ;

14 sai J Û Ω bat, as distinguished from flesh,
in the sense of corn, flour, or vegetable.
This word bat is probably a variant of
beti, "barley"; also bat. a par-

J



tieular kind of bread. Brugsch, Wort.,
p. 371.

I

;;

ο

ruhusu, "flour," or a "fruit."
> 1 û ί'αρηηιθα, appar-

ently the form in which made up

ft

0em Bern.

form of ha, or else the Coptic ΠΟΎ, " great "

or " pied." Cf. also JJ δ Lepsius,
Denk., ii, 2.

Χ ω

seben, a kind of cattle, or else " va-

rious."

Ö Serf, a kind of vase or liquid
Measure, apparently small, as a cup, on ac-
count of the numbers and quantities men-
tioned.

"jj" %, ^ neqa. This form is found
Lepsius, Todt, xvi, c. 31. line 9. either ->

81 (n ^J J5T5 mesai either "young birds" of
another kind of duck or goose.

23 5 \s^ ü ü Ö &α*•> "a pint," or quantity or
liquid held in a vase.

23 ~ kau. This appears to be a cake or

piece of some shape of frankincense of which
the s=s \ Ö deb, or jars, were full. Ka is
supposed to mean " things," " supplies," &c.

24 JiL"^^0 terwu' The " stemS" °r "r00ts•"

The manner in which these were used for
frankincense does not appear, whether for
covers of the pots which held the frank-
~3nse, or wraps to hold it.

Line 12. Fruit, tet mer*5 690 ;

Line 13. Fruit, pints 23,000 ;

Line 14. Fruit, heteps having feet,26 34,500 ;

PLATE XXXVIè.

Line 1. Fruit, heteps various, 1,150,000 ;

Line 2. Fruit, tanaru27 4,600 ;

Line 3. Fruit, baskets 23,000 ;

Line 4. Papyrus slips, in apts, various, 23,000 ;

Line 5. Doum28 dates, heteps 4,600 ;

Line 6. Dates, pyramids 4,400 ;

Line 7. Seed of kata and flowers of kata,29 bushels 23,000 ;

Line 8. Lotus, handfuls 4,600 ;

Line 9. Asi,30 various, apts 483,000 ;

Line 10. Asi, handfuls 231,500 ;

Line 11. Crowns of flowers, 46,000 ;

Line 12. Nosegays of papyrus, 483,000 ;

PLATE XXXVIIa.

Line 1. Papyrus, great ponds 63,000 ;

Line 2. Reed,31 baskets32 72,000 ;

Line 3. Asi,30 vases 69,000 ;

Line 4. Menh flowers, in apts33 26,500 ;

Line 5. Dates, matasu 241,500 ;

Line 6. Grapes, pints35 8,600 :

Line 7. Tendrils36 of vine, handfuls 7,200 ;

Line 8. Vegetables, nosegays 115,000;

Line 9. Vegetable heteps 115,000 ;

Line 10. Grass, heteps 4,600 ;

Line 11. Leaves of atenruka37 92,000 ;

-ft t'et mer, a quantity of some

kind.

Λ

M <=£= g Λ- δ Vi lieUp har mt From tMs

it is evident that the hetep represented a
stand or vessel, with or without feet. The
hetep was a kind of flat altar or table, on
which food offered was placed.

37 a \isV λ ) ks*V ft tauarili apparently a
dry measure, like the basket or pottle, but
uncertain how much it means or implies.

28 hukaha. See above.

j] kata, probably a kind of grain,
of which there were both flower and seeds,
or else fragments, ^Otp ketsi, or N1^? ket-
sija, of flowers and seeds.

30 See above.

31 ξ? \u sanaru or sal. Cf. Brugsch,

Wort., 1170 and 1169, probably the Saris of
Theophrastus IV, 8, here classed with reeds ;
the papyrus, sari, and mnasios being the
three species.

II

Ό ti ti, vases of some kind. The

same word re-appears in line 3, perhaps
" dishes."

33 " Cups," or " small vessels." The plant menh
is supposed to be Colchicum, or a kind of reed
called mnasios.

II!

mata, a measure, probably

the "bushel," or "one." Brugsch, Wort.,
p. 362, a kind of corn, in which case it
would express the fruit counted singly.

-pj (user, apparently a measure,
perhaps a variant of ^__ Ö taser or ser ;

this last word seems also to have meant
" cheese."

ΐ? I <^se >S\ ^X sabaru. determined

7 J y .m ι III

by a flower, something made, or portion of
a plant which could be held in the hand,
and therefore solid, such as the twig, bunch,
or tendril.

Π e^=a □ ^Tr sept, probably the Coptic COTCT,

the pure flowers of the atenruka or tenruka,
a plant or cucumber, the taste of which was
sweet, or like honey—like the sugar cane.