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II. THE GEOGRAPHICAL PAPYRUS.
By W. M. F. Petrie.
B.
(Paper presented to the Committee, July 28, 1885.)
On my return from Egypt this summer, Mr.
Poole showed me some of the papyri which
I had brought last year from San, and which,
despite their completely charred state, had been
satisfactorily unrolled by Mr. Hunt, of the
MSS. Department. Among these were two
which Mr. Poole saw to be of particular interest.
One was a hieroglyphic-hieratic sign-book, of
which some three hundred hieroglyphic signs,
with their transcriptions and pronunciations
written in hieratic, still remain. As Mr. Griffith
is now engaged on this, I will leave this on one
side. The other papyrus contained parts of a
calendar of feasts, and two mentions of the
name of Khuf u. I at once said that it ought to
be published, so that students could work on it
without the vast risk of its travelling. As no
other copyist was available for such an illegible
manuscript, the whole of it being burnt entirely
black, I set aside other matters, and have pro-
duced a copy of all the fragments, ready for
the lithographer. It is hoped that proofs may
shortly be in the hands of students ; but mean-
while 1 may give a few notes on the points
I have observed, the copying, however, having
taken so much time that I cannot attempt to
work on the reading.
The original papyrus was about twenty-five
feet long, and probably about six inches high ;
it was rolled up as usual, and both ends and
one side of the roll were burnt to white ash,
leaving the other side carbonized; hence we
only have about J to f of the whole length, in
a series of separate strips, "8 to 2-2 inches wide,
and each about four inches long, in place of the
Avhole height of the roll. From these I gather
that the papyrus was a sort of religious Gazetteer
and Calendar, divided into thirteen parts.
Part 1. A list of great festivals, &c, beginning
with the new year.
Part 2. A list of the nome capitals in succes-
sive columns, naming the sacred bark, sacred
tree, cemetery, feast-day, forbidden objects,
agathodaimon, land, and lake of each city.
The town-names are altogether burnt awav.
The first four remaining are not identical with
any of the Edfu list, though they should, by
their position, be Tentyra, Diospolis parva,
Abydos, and Panopolis; but the rest are the
same as at Edfu (excepting some curious varia-
tions), and we still have here Hermopolis,
HibiUj Cynopolis, . . . Memphis, Letopolis,
Apis, . . . Busiris, Athribis, Cynopolis, and
Sebennytus. Towards the end, however, it
appears as if two nomes had been omitted, as
there is not space for all the number. The last
column gives the title of each of the lines,
" name of tree," " name of cemetery," &c.
Part 3. Lists comprising the sacred animals,
and apparently arranged according to them.
We see the piebald bull, Hapi, the black bull,
Ka-ur, the white bull, Be-lcJiat; the ram,
monkey, panther, pig, jackal, and the birds
By W. M. F. Petrie.
B.
(Paper presented to the Committee, July 28, 1885.)
On my return from Egypt this summer, Mr.
Poole showed me some of the papyri which
I had brought last year from San, and which,
despite their completely charred state, had been
satisfactorily unrolled by Mr. Hunt, of the
MSS. Department. Among these were two
which Mr. Poole saw to be of particular interest.
One was a hieroglyphic-hieratic sign-book, of
which some three hundred hieroglyphic signs,
with their transcriptions and pronunciations
written in hieratic, still remain. As Mr. Griffith
is now engaged on this, I will leave this on one
side. The other papyrus contained parts of a
calendar of feasts, and two mentions of the
name of Khuf u. I at once said that it ought to
be published, so that students could work on it
without the vast risk of its travelling. As no
other copyist was available for such an illegible
manuscript, the whole of it being burnt entirely
black, I set aside other matters, and have pro-
duced a copy of all the fragments, ready for
the lithographer. It is hoped that proofs may
shortly be in the hands of students ; but mean-
while 1 may give a few notes on the points
I have observed, the copying, however, having
taken so much time that I cannot attempt to
work on the reading.
The original papyrus was about twenty-five
feet long, and probably about six inches high ;
it was rolled up as usual, and both ends and
one side of the roll were burnt to white ash,
leaving the other side carbonized; hence we
only have about J to f of the whole length, in
a series of separate strips, "8 to 2-2 inches wide,
and each about four inches long, in place of the
Avhole height of the roll. From these I gather
that the papyrus was a sort of religious Gazetteer
and Calendar, divided into thirteen parts.
Part 1. A list of great festivals, &c, beginning
with the new year.
Part 2. A list of the nome capitals in succes-
sive columns, naming the sacred bark, sacred
tree, cemetery, feast-day, forbidden objects,
agathodaimon, land, and lake of each city.
The town-names are altogether burnt awav.
The first four remaining are not identical with
any of the Edfu list, though they should, by
their position, be Tentyra, Diospolis parva,
Abydos, and Panopolis; but the rest are the
same as at Edfu (excepting some curious varia-
tions), and we still have here Hermopolis,
HibiUj Cynopolis, . . . Memphis, Letopolis,
Apis, . . . Busiris, Athribis, Cynopolis, and
Sebennytus. Towards the end, however, it
appears as if two nomes had been omitted, as
there is not space for all the number. The last
column gives the title of each of the lines,
" name of tree," " name of cemetery," &c.
Part 3. Lists comprising the sacred animals,
and apparently arranged according to them.
We see the piebald bull, Hapi, the black bull,
Ka-ur, the white bull, Be-lcJiat; the ram,
monkey, panther, pig, jackal, and the birds