Davies, Norman de Garis; Davies, Norman de Garis [Editor]: The Mastaba of Ptahhetep and Akhethetep at Saqqareh (Band 1): The chapel of Ptahhetep and the hieroglyphs (London, 1900)

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THE MASTABA OF PTAIIHETEP AND AKHETHETEP.

of liekhmara (XVIIItli Dyn.). In spite of these
differences it seems evident that one sign spells
both wch and ych (cf. below c=n). Sethe,
Verbum, l, §§ 202, 253, 10, believes that wch
was a more ancient form of ych, and connected
with Semitic names of the moon. In abbre
viated writing of dates, ■^=" • is word-sign for
i/hd (?), " month," the last radical being shown
in the common variant * , while the other
radicals are indicated by a very late variant
^^, for ybt, "net" (Br., P. G., 1078), and
by Copt. eBuoT, " month," though the semi-
consonant is of course rather uncertain.

v^ crescent with star : fig. 198, Pth., xxxix.
1. 2. Specific word-sign for ybd, "month."

^7^ half crescent with star: fig. 193, Pth.,
xxxix., 1. 2. Word-sign for half-month, i.e. 15th
dav.

p^-o (Hier., p. 30); hilly desert, spotted red,
with green base: fig. 212, Pth., xxxix., left, 1.

^-y same on staff or perch: fig. 208, Pth.,
xxxiii., col. 4, symbol with ostrich feather at
end on staff with streamer beneath: fig. 216,
'[]>., xxxix., 1. 3, on hawk-perch, the crossbar
above not indicated. Word-sign—so far as is
known-—not for a district but for the name of a
god, viz. that of the Vlth nome J3- of Lower



Egypt. His name reads

, Pyr.

N., 1. 850 = ^^^f- M., 1. 331, r. Masp., M.
Eg., ii. 265; Br., P. S. B. A., x. 450 ; Piehl,
Sphinx, i. 62.

c^n (Ilier., p. 31); two-crested mount, spotted
red, with green base : fig. 210, Pth., xxxix.,
left, 1.

A (Hier., p. 32); mound of earth : fig. 217,
Pth., xxxix., right 4 ; fig. 220, ib., xxxi., col. 4
(blue). A good instance of its biliteral value

^"%^ is in A A {Pth., xxxi.) = 7V {Perl. Pap.,
ii. 35).

a(?) probably a totally different sign from
the last. In Medwn, PL xi., it is large and
white. An instrument for taking angles (?):
fig. 196, AJcht. Word-sign for irhvt, " work-
shop (?)"; cf. Pth., xxxv.; Hera, p. 549; in
Pap. Parr, seems to mean "wood-yards."

A A (Hier., p. 32); double /—Wo heaps of
provisions (?): fig. 209, Pth., xli.: offerings, 22.

Triple heap: fig. 207, Pth., xli.; offerings,
22. Peculiar det. of heaps of provisions (?).
Cf. L., P., ii. 70, AAA (black); v. % Hi

lev.

p. 32.

(Hier., p. 32); flat land, blue; fig. 204,

Pth., xxxi. 2 ; v. ^.

sa (Hier., p. 33); divided land (?): fig. 206,

AJcht., fig. 215, AIM. Nome det.; in Pth. the
nome is imperfect, presumably the halberd. It
seems possible that some varieties of this sign
are to be connected with a draught-board.

piece of bank, or water, straight at one
end and tapering to the other, which is rounded:
fig. 219, Pth., xxxi. 3; red with green spots.
The same sign shown in B. H., ii., pi. vii.
(towards the left) is white dotted with red
(Champ., Not., ii. 373), but according to an old
note of my oavii it is filled with vertical ripple-
lines in the IVth Dyn. stela of Mer-hest in
the Gizeh Museum. Word-sign for its name
l^j, first read by Maspero, cf. Pyr. M., 194,
and L., P., ii. 84; Pyr. M., 343, and the
common title <?a also Masp., Et. Eg., ii. 207 ;
later usually written 6 J . The meaning is

probably "shore," "bank" of river or sea.
Probably the same as ^ = ( <=^> J \> (cf. yh -
i'och) ; possibly, also, the M.K. geographical
det. o is derived from it,



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