Petrie, William M. Flinders [Bearb.]: The royal tombs of the first dynasty (Part I): 1900 (London, 1900)

THE INSCRIPTIONS.

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may sIioav that this again was intended to re-
present Sm'ty, in spite of the form fH^I in
Sety's list at Abydos. See Setiie in A.Z., 1897,
p. 3.

viclently f

D

KJ

is ev

C7

n

J of Sety's list

(reading Mr-by^p(w) ; cf. id., ib., p. 2. It is
diffienlt to decide whether the early spelling is
to be read Mr-pw-b\f or Mr-by^-pw, and for pir
we might read py in either case. The precise
meaning of the name is doubtful. The Horus
name of this king (in 11) is =, ^z-yb, "sound
(or soundness) of heart."

PL vi. 8. Ntr'wy and dual kingdom titles of
Merpaba, followed by | (?) <=&=, '[^Yl^P m~
scribed within . The last sign is probably
silent in such cases, and is to be treated as a
kind- of determinative sign. It signifies hi,
"Residence" (Hieroglyphs, p. 35). Qed-hetep
may be the name of the king's tomb-city or
of his Residence. The uncertain sign closely
resembles | with loop at side (Hieroglyphs,
p. -48), of the narrow form usual in inscriptions
of the Illrd and IVth Dynasty.

PI. vii. 1. Three plovers'1^, reading Rekhyt
(Ptahhetep I., figs. 84, 410), perhaps a proper
name.

2. t^1 pr-by" (?) suggests that D ^ in the
royal name may possibly mean " house of
wonders." With it is the Horus title of kin«;

£*-=>.

The

see xvii. 26. This title is written '
first group is to be read S-mr rather than Mr-s,
as is shown by the similar writing of the title
im.r in pi. xxx. The last sign, by comparison
with other examples, is certainly the udder &c.
£*-=> (Hieroglyphs, p. 18), reading h as an alpha-
betic sign, and hi, "belly," "bowels," as a word-
sign. Since it is very rarely used in 0. K. as an
alphabetic sign, Ave may almost assume that it
here has the word-sign value ; and we may
recall the Nebty name of Pepy I. n n " who

is beloved by the chef." Chet must in such a
case have been considered as the seat of the
nobler feelings, and so have had the meaning of
(jn\6.yxvovi " bowels," in the New Testament.

This meaning seems entirely lost at a later
period. In the very early names the word chet
is common ; cf. ntr h't, the Horus name of
Tosorthros (?) of the Saqqareh Pyramid; ib h't
Hvio(?), vii. 10, xxvi. 63, xxvii. 64; Hr'w tp
hi(?), xxv. 52, 55, 56; Hrir nb hi, xxix. 83.
Here S'mr-hi probably means " Close friend of
the affections." Or hi might mean " family,"
the sense being derived from its primitive mean-
ing of " loins."

4. The animal at the top may be a dog or
perhaps a lion. Probably it may be interpreted
as the animal figure of some god, described by

Lord

f

the compound group beneath as ^^
of the Residence of Life."

5. A representation of the canopy for the Sed-
festival (Hieroglyphs, p. 36, Naville, Bubastis,
pp. 3 et seep/.) on a stepped base inscribed with
three characters . . I a/ww (?)

6. The sign

" king " (erased), and
Hb-sd, the name of the Sed-festival.
9. The characters [_J

W^

xxxii. 33 for the third sign.

(?)
A

and

3 Mm

(?); cf.

10. *«*—^(?), "Star of the family? of
Horus," a place-name (?) recurring in xxvi. 63,
xxvii. 64.

11. ^3L

scent."
12. crz]

n

Mr-it, possibly meaning "loving

\ followed by an unknown sign.

stands here for I, as in ix. 11 compared with
ix. 3.

PL viii. 1. Dual kingdom and Nebty titles
preceding the name n M which is probably to
be read Q'-c, Qa-a, " High of hand." The Horus
name of the king (2) is the same, but in 29 Ave
have another Nebty name | sn, which, as

AAAAAA

Prof. Petrie has pointed out, may well have led
through its hieratic or linear forms to an

r?[ /www

erratic reading 0 "^^ QHb in tne Ncav King-

1 A \AAAAA

dom, since Qebh occurs in a corresponding place
in the Ncav Kingdom lists.

4. Sio-ns suggestive of
Residence."

cxr><

" Northern

5. See the complete example, ix. 9.