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38 COL. IV

29. e-'r-k wh a 'ny cze a hn e°r-k t hqe n grwgws hr
?bn tap ch n sh nte 7r-k cs e°r-k scne

30. wt-w e pe-w(?) mc wt nfr wt rse

31. e°r-k wh a t 're n ntr-w 'y n-k a hn nte p hn phr
n tkr e°r-k 5ny \v( mhrr nte-k t se-f 11 hsy hn p(?) >rt n
7h-t km-t

32. nte-k ty-f a p (h hr phre-f n t wne-t n rn-s nte p
wyn hp

33. wc s a mr-f a h-t-f n p nt hr hne a t 5r-f phr n tktk
e°r-k 'ny wc swt n cyw n cy XVI IV-t n ht IV-t n [wt ?]

34. IV-t sst IV-t 11 Hme-t nte-k 5r-w n wc swt nte-k
sp-w n snf n qwqwpt nte-k mr-f n wc mhrr n ch-f n p rc

35. hsy e-f qs n hbs(?) n s-stn nte-k mr-f a he-t-f n p
hm-hl nt hr p hn hr phr-f n tkr e [mn mt-t ?] n p [t . . . .]
n'm-f(?)

Col. IV.

1. wc ss-(?)mst e-hr 'r-s p ntr co 'y-m-htp pe-f swh-'yh hr
'ny-k wc tks n h n zyt

withdrawal into or to oneself, an idea naturally associated with sleeping or
lying down (str n-k 4/8) and best seen with the verb se, which by itself means
'go/ while se n-f (uje means 'go away/ 'go home,' 'withdraw.'

1. 29. 'ny cze a hn, probably = kXcttttiv mao-ai. B. M. Pap. XLVI. 172.
e-'r-k sene — eKujd.it-, an isolated instance at present. The following
is the anoXvais of the Gk. papyri, B. M. Pap. CXXP 333.

1. 31. t se-f ?i hsy — -xoq ng^cie, cf. Sah. o^-yoje ng^cie evava-yrjaav
1 Tim. i. 19, and u^cie 'be drowned' (Peyron). The literal

meaning is ' thou shalt cause him to go as one praised (pleasing).'
Similarly in I Kbam. iv. 9, 14, 20 drowning is expressed by *r-f hs-tp R(,
' He did that which pleased Re (the sun god).' hsy has det. of sun and
in some cases the divine det. ^ prefixed to the word-sign, cf. 15/12.
In Gk. our expression is rendered by inOiucrov, ' deify/ or possibly ' con-
secrate,' which proves that the meaning 'blessed dead,' i.e. 'divinised,'
was not yet forgotten: Xaficov fj.vya\ov eK0ecoaov Trriya.La> vSart, kcil \af3aiv
navdapovs creAr/ihokovs 8vo endeuKrov vbaTi TtOTafiiU) Pap. Bibl. Nat. 1. 2455 >
tacrov na\afiu)Trjv eis KpLvivov ecos av curodecodr] B. INI. Pap. CXXI. 629 ; ano-
6cocroi> eis [yaXo, &c.] Berl. Pap. I. 5-

hsy—as a proper name = ao-^s (Spiegelberg, Eigennamen, p. 7*),
lit. 'praised' or 'blessed'—is an euphemism for 'drowned.' No other
meaning is ascertained in demotic for the word as subst.; and that it