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MEMPHIS.
23
B. 90 x 87. Recto. Beginnings of 6 lines, ap-
parently accounts. Verso. Middles of 7 lines, list of
names with descriptions of house property. 1st cent.
C. 101 X 94. Middle of 13 lines from bottom of a
document. Details as to transferred properties, with
references to the records of the nth year of Hadrian,
127 A.D. This was folded up and placed on the
portrait 18, viiA, tucked beneath the bands.
D. 108 x 65, and 50 x 51. Two fragments with
beginnings of 10 and 3 lines, apparently a letter. 1st
or 2nd century.
E. 97 x 108. Three connected fragments, with
parts of 8 lines, the whole extent of an order to
Herakleides the banker to pay a sum of money.
Dated in the reign of Domitian.
J (1). 135 x 142. Parts of 18 lines from the top
of document. Census return of 105 A.D. in the dis-
trict of Dionysias.
K(i). 140 x 42. Parts of 11 lines, list dated in
reign of Hadrian.
(3). 152 x 115. Parts of 21 lines, whole extent of
agreement relating to leased land in a village of the
division of Herakleides, one party registered in the
Hermouthiac district. Dated in the 8th year of
Hadrian.
L (2). 120 x 75. Ends of 9 lines from bottom.
Letter, dated 27 Pakhons year 6 (?) of Tiberius or
Claudius.
N (2). 140 x 115. Two fragments. Verso. Parts
of 17 lines, apparently accounts with reference to a
date in the reign of Claudius.
0(2). 140x105. Parts of 12 lines. Elegiac
poem referring to Merops. 2nd century.
CHAPTER VIII
MEMPHIS.
50. The excavations at Memphis this year were
on three plots of ground. One plot, No. 45, of a
third of an acre, near the colossus, contained the
hind quarters of a colossal sphinx, the remainder of
which ran on into a different property and has not
yet been cleared ; some large blocks of limestone, and
a headless statue of a vizier were also found here.
Another plot, No. 17, of about an acre, in the Ptah
temenos, east of Mitraheneh, was cleared in alternate
blocks, descending to over twenty-five feet in very
tough black mud, but no sculptures were found in
the parts cleared, and the intermediate blocks were
therefore not moved. A third plot, No. 54, south-
west of the Siamen building (see Memphis, I, pi. i)
was excavated as the owner had been finding stone
in it. About half an acre was turned over, beside a
trench in the rest of the ground. The foundations of
a church were cleared, which proved to be formed of
blocks from the Ramesside temple of Ptah. All the
sculptures were copied, and many removed. These
will be best described by following the order of the
plates.
51. PI. xxvii. This is part of a large scene of
the king offering to Ptah in his shrine. It has been
reconstituted from five blocks, the connections of
which are only inferred. The god promises the king
to " give to thee to make multitudes of festivals
eternally." The largest block, with the figure of
Ptah, has originally belonged to an earlier temple,
probably of the xiith dynasty, as it has a Khaker
ornament along the present base of it.
PI. xxviii. It is not known whether the two large
blocks at the top of this plate are from the same
wall. That the top band of signs is nearly of the
same height, and the signs read the same way, points
to their being originally connected. It is probable
that when collecting building material from the ruined
temple, neighbouring parts would be taken together.
The left-hand block has the usual titles of
Ramessu II, and part of a hand showing where the
figure of the king had been below. Another block
with the figure on it may probably belong here, as
shown in the plate. (Hibbard Mus., Chicago.) An
unusual column of text in front begins with an
address to the king by the sixth hour of the night;
the hours are not known to be personified like this
elsewhere. On the right hand of the plate the top
line refers to " the stars the fixed ones." Below are
two apparently Libyan figures, who seem to be spirits
which are called on to " give all power from Arren "
and " give all stability from Ha." These names are
perhaps unknown so far, as they do not appear in
Lanzone. (Cambridge.)
Below in the plate are a part of a stand of offer-
ings and two pieces of a scene of Khentamenti and
a goddess in a celestial boat amid the stars, with two
sons of Horus before it, and two similar figures which
probably followed it.
PI. xxix. The sculptures here hardly need any
notes ; the present places of those brought away are
as follows: the two groups of offerings to Cambridge
and Carlsberg; the figure offering incense and the
block naming the menat and sistrum, also to Carlsberg.
PI. xxx. The top block on the right has
23
B. 90 x 87. Recto. Beginnings of 6 lines, ap-
parently accounts. Verso. Middles of 7 lines, list of
names with descriptions of house property. 1st cent.
C. 101 X 94. Middle of 13 lines from bottom of a
document. Details as to transferred properties, with
references to the records of the nth year of Hadrian,
127 A.D. This was folded up and placed on the
portrait 18, viiA, tucked beneath the bands.
D. 108 x 65, and 50 x 51. Two fragments with
beginnings of 10 and 3 lines, apparently a letter. 1st
or 2nd century.
E. 97 x 108. Three connected fragments, with
parts of 8 lines, the whole extent of an order to
Herakleides the banker to pay a sum of money.
Dated in the reign of Domitian.
J (1). 135 x 142. Parts of 18 lines from the top
of document. Census return of 105 A.D. in the dis-
trict of Dionysias.
K(i). 140 x 42. Parts of 11 lines, list dated in
reign of Hadrian.
(3). 152 x 115. Parts of 21 lines, whole extent of
agreement relating to leased land in a village of the
division of Herakleides, one party registered in the
Hermouthiac district. Dated in the 8th year of
Hadrian.
L (2). 120 x 75. Ends of 9 lines from bottom.
Letter, dated 27 Pakhons year 6 (?) of Tiberius or
Claudius.
N (2). 140 x 115. Two fragments. Verso. Parts
of 17 lines, apparently accounts with reference to a
date in the reign of Claudius.
0(2). 140x105. Parts of 12 lines. Elegiac
poem referring to Merops. 2nd century.
CHAPTER VIII
MEMPHIS.
50. The excavations at Memphis this year were
on three plots of ground. One plot, No. 45, of a
third of an acre, near the colossus, contained the
hind quarters of a colossal sphinx, the remainder of
which ran on into a different property and has not
yet been cleared ; some large blocks of limestone, and
a headless statue of a vizier were also found here.
Another plot, No. 17, of about an acre, in the Ptah
temenos, east of Mitraheneh, was cleared in alternate
blocks, descending to over twenty-five feet in very
tough black mud, but no sculptures were found in
the parts cleared, and the intermediate blocks were
therefore not moved. A third plot, No. 54, south-
west of the Siamen building (see Memphis, I, pi. i)
was excavated as the owner had been finding stone
in it. About half an acre was turned over, beside a
trench in the rest of the ground. The foundations of
a church were cleared, which proved to be formed of
blocks from the Ramesside temple of Ptah. All the
sculptures were copied, and many removed. These
will be best described by following the order of the
plates.
51. PI. xxvii. This is part of a large scene of
the king offering to Ptah in his shrine. It has been
reconstituted from five blocks, the connections of
which are only inferred. The god promises the king
to " give to thee to make multitudes of festivals
eternally." The largest block, with the figure of
Ptah, has originally belonged to an earlier temple,
probably of the xiith dynasty, as it has a Khaker
ornament along the present base of it.
PI. xxviii. It is not known whether the two large
blocks at the top of this plate are from the same
wall. That the top band of signs is nearly of the
same height, and the signs read the same way, points
to their being originally connected. It is probable
that when collecting building material from the ruined
temple, neighbouring parts would be taken together.
The left-hand block has the usual titles of
Ramessu II, and part of a hand showing where the
figure of the king had been below. Another block
with the figure on it may probably belong here, as
shown in the plate. (Hibbard Mus., Chicago.) An
unusual column of text in front begins with an
address to the king by the sixth hour of the night;
the hours are not known to be personified like this
elsewhere. On the right hand of the plate the top
line refers to " the stars the fixed ones." Below are
two apparently Libyan figures, who seem to be spirits
which are called on to " give all power from Arren "
and " give all stability from Ha." These names are
perhaps unknown so far, as they do not appear in
Lanzone. (Cambridge.)
Below in the plate are a part of a stand of offer-
ings and two pieces of a scene of Khentamenti and
a goddess in a celestial boat amid the stars, with two
sons of Horus before it, and two similar figures which
probably followed it.
PI. xxix. The sculptures here hardly need any
notes ; the present places of those brought away are
as follows: the two groups of offerings to Cambridge
and Carlsberg; the figure offering incense and the
block naming the menat and sistrum, also to Carlsberg.
PI. xxx. The top block on the right has