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 12. Wood for burning,1 11,600;
Line 13. Charcoals,2 meser 2,300.

PLATE XXXVII6.

Line 1. The offerings to the books3 of the god Nile, which he added anew in the house

of the Nile, the father of the gods,
Line 2. together with the registers of the Nile, which were appointed in the pool of

Kabh,4 in the temple of Ra and Harma%u,
Line 3. the register books of the Nile, which are appointed in the temple of Anup,

lord of Sapt,5 in the land of Netau,6 besides the things which were

before,
Line 4. from time to time, from the first year to the thirty-first year, making thirty-
one years ;
Line 5. The books of the Nile, which the king Pa-user-ma, beloved of Amen, the

living and well, the great god, forty-eight7 of the years making thirty-one

years.
Line 6. The books of the Nile 272 making ;8
Line 7. Good bread for divine supplies, various, baata 470,000 ;
Line 8. Good bread for divine supplies, biscuits,10 pyramids, rings,11 879,224 ;
Line 9. Food, various, apts 106,910 ;
Line 10. Corn12 heaps, offering of bread, 49,568 ;
Line 11. Beer, various, hins 49,432 ;
Line 12. Corn,13 bushels 61,172^;
Line 13. Cows 291 ;
Line 14. Heifers 17 ;

PLATE XXXYIIIa.

Line 1. Calves 51 ;

Line 2. Bulls 2,564 ; total 2,923.

Line 3. Cattle 1,089 ;

Line 4. Geese, fat, 192 ;

Line 5. Geese, living, and other14 geese, 3,938 ;

Line 6. Goslings 364 ;

Line 7. Waterfowl 2,653 ;

sa en semn.

See above.

See above ; also

ft

Coptic JULOYCep, "thongs," a kind of
bundle or certain quantity of charcoal.

ω I III

'41

the Nil omet er was kept.
Π

8 The number of years which these refer to is
omitted.

J

111
some kind.

or "register."

IV WW $£. Kabh. " Elephantine," where

ol

sapt, the "district" or "nome."



r^-^i Netau, or Nau, the land

of the Ibex goat, Cynopolis, or the 16th
nome of Upper Egypt, generally repre-
sented by an Ibex goat and hawk standing
upon it.

7 That is, forty-eight books which registered for
thirty-one regnal years.

Δ

baat, cakes or measures of

I per sen, a kind of cake, circular in

shape, or a biscuit.

sesu, a kind of ring-shaped

qaunk.

cake.

Ο

III

?••Ϊ.? ^P^k^ft -Χ', "corn sack/

χαα or %anà, possibly the " vulpan-
ser," another kind of goose. It is mentioned
in the statistical tablet of Thothmes III.

Line 8. Doves 68 ;

Line 9. Geese15 1,928 ;

Line 10. Total of various fowl 27,143 ;

Line 11. Spirits, caabs 209 ;

Line 12. Wine, amphorae 7,154 ;

Line 13. White fat, pots 3,513 each ^-hin,16 making 6241 hins,

Line 14. Onions, pots17 12,712 ;

PLATE XXXVim.

Line 1. Grapes, pots 12,712 ;

Line 2. Natron, pots 12,712 ;

Line 3. Dates, clear, pots 11,822 ;

Line 4. Spices, pots 11,872;

Line 5. Green paint, pots 11,872;

Line 6. Stibium, pots 11,872;

Line 7. Frankincense, censers 848 ;

Line 8. Frankincense, sides18 424 ;

Line 9. Frankincense, pots 87,344, making dry frankincense, ten 23,008 ;

Line 10. Incense, baskets 6,420 ;

Line 11. Incense, pots 2,568 ;

Line 12. Frankincense, vases 1,304 ;

Line 13. Green frankincense, hins 85 ;

Line 14. Oil, hins 85 ;

Line 15. Fruit, jars19 254,240 ;

PLATE XXXIX.

Line 1. Fruit, baskets 2,572 ;

Line 2. Fruit, pots 154,672 ;

Line 3. Grapes, pots 11,872;

Line 4. Grapes, tendrils20 11,872 ;

Line 5. Heads of fruit 9,600 ;

Line 6. Honey, puha21 20,800, various jars, each \-hin, making 5,200 hins;

Line 7. Honey, jars22 1,400, each a hin, making 1,400 hins ;

Line 8. Honey for food, hins 7,050, \-hins 15 ;23

Line 9. Fresh fat for food, hins 1,419, \-hins 25 ;

Line 10. Tas wood, logs 3,036 ;

Line 11. Head24 ointment, jars25 848, each \-hin, making 224 hins ;

ι ra

Xuas, another kind of goose.

δ BOX su neb haum, each ^ of a

hin for the reckoning, which is 624^ hins, by
error of scribe.

Vj utu or hutu, perhaps " onions.'
*ώ» sper, a peculiar kind of vessel.
\ Y^ Ö mehtu.

20 Π 2§E \ÎJ sxep. Cf. Brugsch, Wort., s. 1314.

31 This last word must be a subdivision of the
hin.

22 ^^\ ν Œ mehtu, a kind of vase or measure.

23 That is, 15 additional pots holding \-Mns.

21 api or tepi, " hair or head ointment."

25 1 ^X\ ksï^ t? ^ perhaps bas or besa, " vases."

Line 12. Ointment, pots 3036, each \-hin, making 758
Line 13. Beans,27 shelled,28 pots 11,998 ;

PLATE XLa.

Line 1. S%ep,29 pots 11,872 ;

Line 2. Sxep, in cups 106,000 ;

Line 3. Tenruka, in baskets 106,000;

Line 4. Fodder, trusses 159,000 ;

Line 5. Fodder, loads 11,872 ;

Line 6. Vases of mud,30 hands 71,200 ;

Line 7. Shu31 flowers, bunches 43,900 ;

Line 8. Green fruit,32 pints 4,240 ;

Line 9. Incense bearing trees, living,33 106,000 ;

Line 10. Fruit of the date, dishes 11,872 ;

Line 11. Paint, jars 12,040 ;

Line 12. Milk, jars 12,040 ;

Line 13. Milk, in hins 198 ;

Line 14. Aluhama34 fruit, in cups 99,000 ;

Line 15. Teph35 fruit, harahuta™ 848 ;

PLATE XL&.

Line 1. Tamarisk flowers, tetmer 858 ;

Line 2. Tamarisk flowers, handfuls 8,480 ;

Line 3. Flower crowns 43,640 ;

Line 4. Vine37 twigs, handfuls 78,000 ;

Line 5. Plants, processional nosegays 114,804;

Line 6. Plants, hetep 114,804;

Line 7. Gold figures of the Nile, misa38 6,784 ;

Line 8. Silver figures of the Nile, nusa 6,784 ;

Line 9. Eeal lapis lazuli figures of the Nile, nusa 13,568 ;

20 Here an error of one in the reckoning, as it
ought to be 759.

:=>0

275b>

"beans."

Ill

or furu, ΟΎρΟ, <LpO,

28 ΓΠ J^ νλ '-----" faß, Coptic âOrq, is a

kind of bean, a word of uncertain meaning,
and here applied to some mode of preparing
the beans.

29 See above. Brugsch, Wort., s. 1314, a kind

of fruit or tendril.

ÎJ

λ^^λλ uteb. the bank of a river or furrow.

wvw I

It is difficult to know what is here intended
by the %ai-en uteb, as it is intercalated among
flowers and herbs, unless it is the name of a
kind of plant.

A kind of plant not known.

Î ω uat, apparently for " green," but possibly
for hut, " white fruit." The preceding word
also read " flour."

Or a hieratic group expressing the article or
section.

See above,
Ο

teph, unknown kind of seed or fruit.
□ X 111 r '

Carat weights.

Έ? 1 λΚ v\ \jj sabaru, of fruit or

vines. This word, perhaps, " stems,
C&pocnre, of vines, pods, or bushes."
There was a place called ci-ίϊίΓρον.
Eisenlohr reads " cards of milk."

Ρ—.

Ό

\*

ι I nusa, "a weight," appa-
rently small, as it is applied to the different
figures of the Nile in stone and metal. It
is applied as a measure of lead in the sta-
tistical tablet of Karnak of Thothmes III,

Lepsius, Auswahl, taf. xii, 1. 35, as "* ι ι

with an oval determinative, in the same sense
as bricks, teb, or ingots is applied to that
metal, either referring to the form in which
it is worked up, or the shape of the ingot or
mass, as the word " statue " here is men-
tioned.