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LEGAL DOCUMENTS.
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is probably the determinative of a noun of
multitude in the singular. Above, in PI. i.,
1. 10, we have the plural d>mw.
From 11. 16, 27 and 30 we see that srwd,
w'rt in all probability followed by mhtt, is to
be restored at the end of this line. For dJm
srwd cf. note on PI. ii., 1. 7. To the instances
there quoted add Mae., Karnalc, xxxvii., 1. 30
= BfiUGSCH, Thes., 1296, 1. 13, for both ts and
srwd, and cf. B. H. I., xliv. 8.
iH: a difficult word requiring special study.
For the present I shall content myself with
pointing out that from these papyri and else-
where we can gather that there were two, or
probably three, territorial divisions of the
public service (military and public works), as
follows :—
a. The "the uart of the beginning
of the South," i.e. for the Thebaid, probably
extending from Elephantine to Siut, or perhaps
Hermopolis. This is constantly named on the
stelae of Abydos, and in the Theban papyrus,
Bulalc, no. 18, but never at Kahun.
b. The h, "the uart of the South,"
named at Kahun, PI. xvi., 1. 10, PI. xxxv., 1. 41,
probably distinct from the last, and for Middle
Egypt corresponding more or less to the
Heptanomid. It may, however, be only an-
other name for a, in that case meaning Upper
Egypt, to include Middle Egypt.
c. The i^r^>" the Northern uart;' i.e. of
Lower Egypt, often mentioned in the Kahun
papyri connected with the Sopdite family, viz.
in Pis. ix., xii., xiii.
Outside the Kahun collection b and c are
known onlv in the title <S <=± \> (?) (?) <S ^ % °°=^ ,
" administrator (?) of the uart, for the Court-
citizens (?) in the uarts of Middle (?) and
Lower Egypt," Mae., Gat. Ab., no. 847. a. can
be abbreviated to _f ^ (Cat. Ab., 803, &c).
Probably the other two can likewise be de-
signated by _| ^ alone. So in PI. xiv., 1. 6,
&c,
probably stands for u'rt rst.
I. 3. I cannot explain the sign in red ink,
but it is evidently an abbreviation, cf. 1. 7.
I. 3". fj^, cf. note to PI. xii., 1. 4. In the
earlier uputs (11. 17 and 28), she is simply Q a .
1. 28; z=5|i J®, PI. xiii., 11. 19, 21) may be
merely the name of a town in the Arabian
nome ; but I suspect it to be one of the
two divisions of Lower Egypt into territories
east and west of the main river branches,
and which seem to be called together in
Una, 1. 14. If so, it would be the whole
eastern border of the Delta, corresponding to
the yt) Tea-eft of Judith i. 9. There was a
® for the city or district, see PI. xiii.,
1. 21.
L4a- 1M^(?> ^•'nos- 792>
854, 908,
s ) may be applied
either solely to the widowed mother in 1. 4, or
possibly also to the three unmarried sisters
named in 11. 5-7. One would suspect it to be
an appellation of women without dower and
without rank, but as these women at Abydos
appear to belong to families of some conse-
quence, one may suggest that they were such
as were without natural male protector, and
therefore placed as "wards " under the guardian-
ship of a city or guild.
lL ^ i ^ i were ^y profession stone-
masons, cf. ex. gr. El Bersheh II., p. 24. As
to the sisters of a soldier being of this
class, we may compare the remarkable title
j^wv^^j, Gat. Ab., 914, which seems to
indicate a systematic connexion of the soldiers
with the stonemasons in the necropolis, unless
j is here merely the "force" of stonemasons,
&c, such as is constantly mentioned in the
quarry-graffiti, L. D., ii., 138c, 149e, &c, &c.
I. 7. The sign in red ink is again uncertain ;
it might, however, read , as an abbreviation
of Hetep Usertesen (for which see Appendix B),
e 2
21
is probably the determinative of a noun of
multitude in the singular. Above, in PI. i.,
1. 10, we have the plural d>mw.
From 11. 16, 27 and 30 we see that srwd,
w'rt in all probability followed by mhtt, is to
be restored at the end of this line. For dJm
srwd cf. note on PI. ii., 1. 7. To the instances
there quoted add Mae., Karnalc, xxxvii., 1. 30
= BfiUGSCH, Thes., 1296, 1. 13, for both ts and
srwd, and cf. B. H. I., xliv. 8.
iH: a difficult word requiring special study.
For the present I shall content myself with
pointing out that from these papyri and else-
where we can gather that there were two, or
probably three, territorial divisions of the
public service (military and public works), as
follows :—
a. The "the uart of the beginning
of the South," i.e. for the Thebaid, probably
extending from Elephantine to Siut, or perhaps
Hermopolis. This is constantly named on the
stelae of Abydos, and in the Theban papyrus,
Bulalc, no. 18, but never at Kahun.
b. The h, "the uart of the South,"
named at Kahun, PI. xvi., 1. 10, PI. xxxv., 1. 41,
probably distinct from the last, and for Middle
Egypt corresponding more or less to the
Heptanomid. It may, however, be only an-
other name for a, in that case meaning Upper
Egypt, to include Middle Egypt.
c. The i^r^>" the Northern uart;' i.e. of
Lower Egypt, often mentioned in the Kahun
papyri connected with the Sopdite family, viz.
in Pis. ix., xii., xiii.
Outside the Kahun collection b and c are
known onlv in the title <S <=± \> (?) (?) <S ^ % °°=^ ,
" administrator (?) of the uart, for the Court-
citizens (?) in the uarts of Middle (?) and
Lower Egypt," Mae., Gat. Ab., no. 847. a. can
be abbreviated to _f ^ (Cat. Ab., 803, &c).
Probably the other two can likewise be de-
signated by _| ^ alone. So in PI. xiv., 1. 6,
&c,
probably stands for u'rt rst.
I. 3. I cannot explain the sign in red ink,
but it is evidently an abbreviation, cf. 1. 7.
I. 3". fj^, cf. note to PI. xii., 1. 4. In the
earlier uputs (11. 17 and 28), she is simply Q a .
1. 28; z=5|i J®, PI. xiii., 11. 19, 21) may be
merely the name of a town in the Arabian
nome ; but I suspect it to be one of the
two divisions of Lower Egypt into territories
east and west of the main river branches,
and which seem to be called together in
Una, 1. 14. If so, it would be the whole
eastern border of the Delta, corresponding to
the yt) Tea-eft of Judith i. 9. There was a
® for the city or district, see PI. xiii.,
1. 21.
L4a- 1M^(?> ^•'nos- 792>
854, 908,
s ) may be applied
either solely to the widowed mother in 1. 4, or
possibly also to the three unmarried sisters
named in 11. 5-7. One would suspect it to be
an appellation of women without dower and
without rank, but as these women at Abydos
appear to belong to families of some conse-
quence, one may suggest that they were such
as were without natural male protector, and
therefore placed as "wards " under the guardian-
ship of a city or guild.
lL ^ i ^ i were ^y profession stone-
masons, cf. ex. gr. El Bersheh II., p. 24. As
to the sisters of a soldier being of this
class, we may compare the remarkable title
j^wv^^j, Gat. Ab., 914, which seems to
indicate a systematic connexion of the soldiers
with the stonemasons in the necropolis, unless
j is here merely the "force" of stonemasons,
&c, such as is constantly mentioned in the
quarry-graffiti, L. D., ii., 138c, 149e, &c, &c.
I. 7. The sign in red ink is again uncertain ;
it might, however, read , as an abbreviation
of Hetep Usertesen (for which see Appendix B),
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