DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18088#0026
Hi THE SIGN PAPYRUS.
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Foundation.
Sep (a kind of cake).
Cycle.
Canopy.
Embalmed.1
Gods.
House.
Fields, or field.
Loaf of bread.
1e s a J M I Tie of Ii,icn'
1 i.e., duly buried and tberefore deified, being assimilated to Osiris. This notion is common in the religious texts.
The name of the hatchet neter means god, but this word was no doubt required for another sign . Why the above
expression was chosen for the name of the hatchet sign is not easy to understand, since the hatchet seems to have no
connection with burial; probably the notion of 'hatchet' was lost in that of 'god,' and perhaps in common parlance a
deceased person was spoken of as the god, or neter, so and so, where in inscriptions we find maa kheru. Granting this, the
commonest application of the word neter furnished a name for the sign | ; but I know of nothing to support the view that
neter was generally applied to deceased persons. (For the exact meaning of neter, see Mr. Renoufs Hibbort Lectures, 1879.)
- An important transcription, which however scarcely settles the question as to the reading of the sign.
XIV.
(ft?)
4.
(10
(•)
1
111
1
fl —J
11 <?>
rill
lost.
o s
(°) ^e:<?)
lost.
0 M r! to
1e *- ^> 1 p8
111
lost.
nl al n
2
cm
^ i
1 ,
\> ' i
o^D _o
o I A ' Mi
Land
Foundation.
Sep (a kind of cake).
Cycle.
Canopy.
Embalmed.1
Gods.
House.
Fields, or field.
Loaf of bread.
1e s a J M I Tie of Ii,icn'
1 i.e., duly buried and tberefore deified, being assimilated to Osiris. This notion is common in the religious texts.
The name of the hatchet neter means god, but this word was no doubt required for another sign . Why the above
expression was chosen for the name of the hatchet sign is not easy to understand, since the hatchet seems to have no
connection with burial; probably the notion of 'hatchet' was lost in that of 'god,' and perhaps in common parlance a
deceased person was spoken of as the god, or neter, so and so, where in inscriptions we find maa kheru. Granting this, the
commonest application of the word neter furnished a name for the sign | ; but I know of nothing to support the view that
neter was generally applied to deceased persons. (For the exact meaning of neter, see Mr. Renoufs Hibbort Lectures, 1879.)
- An important transcription, which however scarcely settles the question as to the reading of the sign.