DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18088#0020
10 THE SIGN PAPYRUS.
VI.
3.
6.
u
(P)
(—)
© ==(!) u,
ft ^ T
Pill
The arms " ka."
mcasurini: Jino.
lost
.... (3
Measuring line.
Bolt.
•signs, °,-=^ and * ~ , are included in the animal series preceding. The scribe seems to have aimed at making each list as
he came to it complete at the expense of the others. In the alphabetic list no stringent order, phonetic or otherwise,
is observed, nor does the arbitrary order here adopted influence in any way the arrangement of the other signs.
On page 7 fourteen signs remain. If wc take this as the original number on page 6, and assume that the
alphabetic list begins at the top of page 6, we obtain fourteen on page 6, and ten on page 7 = 24 alphabetic signs.
There are twelve certain signs remaining in the hieroglyphic and first hieratic column. Those arranged in the usual
phonetic order are as follows : P, _a; y , <^>', |, ©, J, **-=* ; A, U, K A. Of the remaining twenty-six
signs that are usually considered alphabetic, or might have stood in the list, namely, , A (], ^j>; (a} £\- J ; ,
Ji, j&a; m, (?) •(?); ~, P, —, JtOJ; ~, J, :=, ^,
the two reptiles and <1-=^ have appeared on the preceding page : the birds and animals, five in number,
_Bk.J ^> Si' -2s6» may I,eraaPs be relegated to the bottom of pages 4 and 5: is equivalent to
on the last page': five others, (® ^ —h— P and a or g§ may be replaced as in the transcription.
Thirteen signs remain, namely, [)[), J, ^zz, fO, c^O, IflYL ^=^, }, S=», <=>, and Q or
Of these the first may well have been omitted, the third seems to occur on page 17, the sixth may not have been
considered alphabetic. The last g& is doubtful and unlikely in this position. The total would thus be twelve certain
+ five probable + nine = twenty-six, or two more than the estimate. These two may have found a place at the bottom
of pages 5 and 6, making fifteen signs to a page.
With the fragments of page 8 is included one, 1 A 13°, with remains of five hieratic groups. It is evidently
broken from the right hand fragment of a pair. The groups may perhaps be transcribed as follows :_
2.
5.
(Jm)
(==(?))
(IB)
(«)
J l S 9 (")
(1)1
I
Leg(?)
a
Wooden instrument used in winnowing (?)
Lake, water.
Lotus . . .
This is rather a tour de force, but the fragment is a puzzle. It certainly does not belong to page 8 ; but being
mounted with it, it should be placed near it, nor can any place bo found for it with the other fragments. Also a page
near the outside would be more probably damaged and lost than those inside, and this part of the papyrus was near
VI.
3.
6.
u
(P)
(—)
© ==(!) u,
ft ^ T
Pill
The arms " ka."
mcasurini: Jino.
lost
.... (3
Measuring line.
Bolt.
•signs, °,-=^ and * ~ , are included in the animal series preceding. The scribe seems to have aimed at making each list as
he came to it complete at the expense of the others. In the alphabetic list no stringent order, phonetic or otherwise,
is observed, nor does the arbitrary order here adopted influence in any way the arrangement of the other signs.
On page 7 fourteen signs remain. If wc take this as the original number on page 6, and assume that the
alphabetic list begins at the top of page 6, we obtain fourteen on page 6, and ten on page 7 = 24 alphabetic signs.
There are twelve certain signs remaining in the hieroglyphic and first hieratic column. Those arranged in the usual
phonetic order are as follows : P, _a; y , <^>', |, ©, J, **-=* ; A, U, K A. Of the remaining twenty-six
signs that are usually considered alphabetic, or might have stood in the list, namely, , A (], ^j>; (a} £\- J ; ,
Ji, j&a; m, (?) •(?); ~, P, —, JtOJ; ~, J, :=, ^,
the two reptiles and <1-=^ have appeared on the preceding page : the birds and animals, five in number,
_Bk.J ^> Si' -2s6» may I,eraaPs be relegated to the bottom of pages 4 and 5: is equivalent to
on the last page': five others, (® ^ —h— P and a or g§ may be replaced as in the transcription.
Thirteen signs remain, namely, [)[), J, ^zz, fO, c^O, IflYL ^=^, }, S=», <=>, and Q or
Of these the first may well have been omitted, the third seems to occur on page 17, the sixth may not have been
considered alphabetic. The last g& is doubtful and unlikely in this position. The total would thus be twelve certain
+ five probable + nine = twenty-six, or two more than the estimate. These two may have found a place at the bottom
of pages 5 and 6, making fifteen signs to a page.
With the fragments of page 8 is included one, 1 A 13°, with remains of five hieratic groups. It is evidently
broken from the right hand fragment of a pair. The groups may perhaps be transcribed as follows :_
2.
5.
(Jm)
(==(?))
(IB)
(«)
J l S 9 (")
(1)1
I
Leg(?)
a
Wooden instrument used in winnowing (?)
Lake, water.
Lotus . . .
This is rather a tour de force, but the fragment is a puzzle. It certainly does not belong to page 8 ; but being
mounted with it, it should be placed near it, nor can any place bo found for it with the other fragments. Also a page
near the outside would be more probably damaged and lost than those inside, and this part of the papyrus was near