Maspero, Gaston: Études de mythologie et d'archéologie égyptiennes (Band 8) (Paris, 1916)

INSCRIPTION OF UNI

(SIXTH DYNASTY )1

This inscription covered one of the walls of the tomb
which Uni built for himself at Abydos, in the central
part of the necropolis (Mariette, Abydos, vol. II., p. 41;
Catalogue général, p. 84, No. 522). It was found there
under Mariette and transferred by him to his Muséum
at Boulaq (Mariette, Notice des principaux Monuments,
1864, pp. 286-287), where it now bears the number 886
(Maspero, Guide du Visiteur, pp. 209-211). E. de Rougé
copied it there in 1865 and made a running analysis of it
intermingled with translations, which lie published in his
Recherches sur les Monuments (pp. 117-128, 135-149,
pl. VIL, VIII.). His work served as a starting-point for
the complète translations of Birch («Inscription of Una»,
in the Records qf the Past, lirst Séries, t. IL, pp. 1-8), and
the partial translation of Maspero {Histoire ancienne des
peuples de l'Orient, 1875, pp. 88-92, 1886, pp. 81-85) and of
Brugsch (Geschichte JEgyptens, pp. 95-102). The text
has been edited a second time, but somewhat incorrectly,
by Mariette {Abydos, vol. IL, pp. 44-49); it has again
been printed, with the corrections of Brugsch and Goléni-
schefï, by Erman {Commentar zur Inschrift des Una, in

1. Publié dans les Records of the Past, second Séries, vol. II,
p. 1-10.