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 PTAHHETEP AND AKHETHETEP.

common word-sign for ym). Sometimes = w^y,
"boat" (generally a mythological boat, and the
form of the sign generally modified accordingly).

2&Hi (Bier., p. 52) ; fisherman's boat, con-
taining net, on water : fig. 336, Ahht.

{Flier., p. 52); paddle: fig. 332, Pth.,
xxxix., left, 3.

[ (Hier., p. 52); bone harpoon-head: fig.
333, Pth., xxxii. 4; fig. 339, AIM. (Note
that in Hier., p. 53, 1] 1 and 3 are both base or

false, founded respectively on ^ and I.)

Harpoon ^=5- (wc, Hier., p. 52) on stand in a
boat with tow-line (?) (cf. bark of Sokaris, &c),
the whole placed on a sacred perch: fig. 327,
Pth., xxxiv. 1. Symbol of the Yllth nome of
Lower Egypt (in the Western Delta), and of
the Vlllth (in the Eastern Delta), the Heroo-
polite. Reading unknown. Cf. Methen, L., 1).,
ii. 3, top right.

^k (Hier., p. 53); bird-trap : fig. 335,

Pth., xxxii. 3.

mim cage or crate for birds: fig. 325, Pth.,
xxxii. 3. Det. and word-sign for name, s=>
" box."

Class XIV. Articles foe Personal Use,
Furniture, Food, &c. Pl. XV.

J (Hier., p. 54); conventionalized throne:
fig. 352, Pth., xxxiii., col. 6—blue or green.
Where in Ptahhetep the sign is repeated in a
row, it is in alternating colours (Pth., xli.,

cols. 2, 3).

S coffin : fig. 340, Pth., xxxix., left, 1,
Name, Inn. Det. qrs't, "burial." Cf. pq, Hier.,
p. 54.

Food-stand (Hier., p. 54) : fig. 345, Ahht.
Det. of J/-t. Cf. Medum, PL xiii. In Pth.,
xli. 15 has food only, no vases as in M.K.

the same, with slices of bread (cf. Hi

er

p. 54): fig. 346, Ahht. For the variety with
palm leaves, which seems to belong chiefly
to the period of debasement at the end of the

O.K., see Dendereh, pp. 42, 53.

[\ (Hier., p. 55) ; loaf of bread
AIM.

fig. 351,

© flat circular cake or dish, marks at the
edge, in some cases evidently the impress of
three or four fingers : fig. 350, Pth., xx^dx., 1. 2 ;
also ib., xli., offerings, 16; fig. 402, coloured,
where two grains are shown on the top. A det.
of offerings. Word-sign for pJit (?).

{y aws'A-vase piled with food : fig. 348, Pth.,
xxxvi. 2 ; fig, 349, it., xli., offerings, 20—con-
tents green (?). Det. of rwp't, " vegetable (?)."

(Hier., p. 55); staff: fig. 344, Pth.,
xxxiii., col. 8. N.B. The short staves of the
ox-herds (ib., xxxi.) are not much longer in
proportion. Yellow in Akhethetep.

;Sj (Hier., p. 55) ; fig. 342, AIM. ; fig. 408
(coloured), Ahht. In Pth. the pot is blue, the
stick red with the middle black. The pencase
is .partly covered with black leather, forming a
holder for the pens. For the value -*- ^ see
Sethe, Verbum, i., § 260. Setiie prefers to
interpret this spelling as for -»-»- sh, on the
strength of the Coptic equivalent, though the
spelling si is found even in N.K.

r, (Hier., p. 55); papyrus-roll: fig. 310,

*- y / a

Pth., xxxi., col. 2 ; in Akhethetep seal blue,
green in one example. Note that ' ^ <=^ is
not sc't, but mz'-t, "book," or "roll," fully
written in Pyr. W., 1. 601, and this value is

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