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C. GEOGRAPHICAL PAPYRUS.
PAPYRUS No. V
(PLATES XV-XVm.)
Fragments of a papyrus about 5 feet in
length by 10^ inches high relating to the
geography of Egypt and the Fayum. It is
written in small and clear hieroglyphic hand-
writing, and perhaps originally formed part of
a second roll of the Great Fayum Geographical
treatise, portions of which are preserved in
the Gizeh Museum and among the private
collection of Mr. Hood, of Nettleham Hall, in
Lincolnshire.
It is impossible, however, to fit the Amherst
fragments on to the pieces now known, but
the papyrus itself relates to the same subject
and is written in the same handwriting as the
Gizeh and Hood documents.
On a small strip at Nettleham Hall, recently
published by Lanzoni, occurs the cartouche
of one of the Ptolemies (? Euergetes II), thus
dating the document to Ptolemaic times.
The first half of the papyrus (Pis. XV-XVI)
is divided into eight vertical columns, each being
subdivided horizontally into five compartments
containing figures of the crocodile-god Sebek.
To the right of each figure is written the name of
the god and of the nome or locality over which
he was supposed to preside. In several cases
the place-names have been destroyed: in the
following list of the nomes of Upper Egypt I
have, for completeness sake, inserted between
brackets these destroyed names.
PLATE XV.—THE NOMES OF
LOWER EGYPT.
Column I.
[No. 1. fS Ta-Khent, Nubia.]
" 2' ll^b© Tlics-Heru, the Apollinopo-
lite Nome.
3. M
©
Ten, the Latopolite Nome.
4. _ . T Mert-rd, the Theban Nome.
5qj©
[ „ 6.
Herui, the Coptite Nome.
Column II.
A-du, the Tentyrite Nome.]
rsi q
7. y J © Sekhem, the Diospolite Nome.
„ 8. y\© Abez, the Thinite Nome.
f „ 9. -JL'3 Min, the Panopolite Nome.]
*-^p— ©
„ 10. v_^T^^ Uazt, the Aphroditopolite
Nome.
C. GEOGRAPHICAL PAPYRUS.
PAPYRUS No. V
(PLATES XV-XVm.)
Fragments of a papyrus about 5 feet in
length by 10^ inches high relating to the
geography of Egypt and the Fayum. It is
written in small and clear hieroglyphic hand-
writing, and perhaps originally formed part of
a second roll of the Great Fayum Geographical
treatise, portions of which are preserved in
the Gizeh Museum and among the private
collection of Mr. Hood, of Nettleham Hall, in
Lincolnshire.
It is impossible, however, to fit the Amherst
fragments on to the pieces now known, but
the papyrus itself relates to the same subject
and is written in the same handwriting as the
Gizeh and Hood documents.
On a small strip at Nettleham Hall, recently
published by Lanzoni, occurs the cartouche
of one of the Ptolemies (? Euergetes II), thus
dating the document to Ptolemaic times.
The first half of the papyrus (Pis. XV-XVI)
is divided into eight vertical columns, each being
subdivided horizontally into five compartments
containing figures of the crocodile-god Sebek.
To the right of each figure is written the name of
the god and of the nome or locality over which
he was supposed to preside. In several cases
the place-names have been destroyed: in the
following list of the nomes of Upper Egypt I
have, for completeness sake, inserted between
brackets these destroyed names.
PLATE XV.—THE NOMES OF
LOWER EGYPT.
Column I.
[No. 1. fS Ta-Khent, Nubia.]
" 2' ll^b© Tlics-Heru, the Apollinopo-
lite Nome.
3. M
©
Ten, the Latopolite Nome.
4. _ . T Mert-rd, the Theban Nome.
5qj©
[ „ 6.
Herui, the Coptite Nome.
Column II.
A-du, the Tentyrite Nome.]
rsi q
7. y J © Sekhem, the Diospolite Nome.
„ 8. y\© Abez, the Thinite Nome.
f „ 9. -JL'3 Min, the Panopolite Nome.]
*-^p— ©
„ 10. v_^T^^ Uazt, the Aphroditopolite
Nome.