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THE EXODUS PAPYRI.
of things where the "daily panegyry" was the great
pleasure of life, and where the " smasher for daily
offerings" supplied " heaps of offerings every day,"
and where the Egyptian from sunset to the fourth
hour of the night assuaged ad libitum, his artistic
and political, his devotional and corporeal, aspira-
tions. We see from the above that there was com-
munity of interest between author and performer
on these festive occasions, Author taking care to
impress upon the public the idea that the loudness
of the shouting of the victories of Barneses was in
accurate correspondence with the strength of the
liquor he supplied. The chief difficulty in such a
barefaced production is to know what is really
meant by its being written here in the form of a
letter from a junior scribe, Pinebsa, to his superior,
Amen-m-Apt, whose death is celebrated in this
same bundle of papers. It seems more specific and
historical than the former one; but, after what I
said upon the other, 1 cannot consistently desire
the reader to suppose that Pinebsa ever actually
sent this song as a letter. It would be a very
unmeaning private epistle; and even granting that
great men's letters are sometimes collected and
copied out by private zeal or friendship after their
death, yet why should the same privilege be ac-
corded to this Pinebsa? Par more probable is the
supposition that this "section" merely particu-
larises in the usual method the panegyry and
temple at which the funeral was celebrated. But
if so, a highly noticeable historical fact would be
deduced, namely, that Rameses the Great was
of things where the "daily panegyry" was the great
pleasure of life, and where the " smasher for daily
offerings" supplied " heaps of offerings every day,"
and where the Egyptian from sunset to the fourth
hour of the night assuaged ad libitum, his artistic
and political, his devotional and corporeal, aspira-
tions. We see from the above that there was com-
munity of interest between author and performer
on these festive occasions, Author taking care to
impress upon the public the idea that the loudness
of the shouting of the victories of Barneses was in
accurate correspondence with the strength of the
liquor he supplied. The chief difficulty in such a
barefaced production is to know what is really
meant by its being written here in the form of a
letter from a junior scribe, Pinebsa, to his superior,
Amen-m-Apt, whose death is celebrated in this
same bundle of papers. It seems more specific and
historical than the former one; but, after what I
said upon the other, 1 cannot consistently desire
the reader to suppose that Pinebsa ever actually
sent this song as a letter. It would be a very
unmeaning private epistle; and even granting that
great men's letters are sometimes collected and
copied out by private zeal or friendship after their
death, yet why should the same privilege be ac-
corded to this Pinebsa? Par more probable is the
supposition that this "section" merely particu-
larises in the usual method the panegyry and
temple at which the funeral was celebrated. But
if so, a highly noticeable historical fact would be
deduced, namely, that Rameses the Great was