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Sect. VI.]
AGE OF THE SUPHISES.
61
commenced with the manifestation of the Decan of
the G. P. Y. #; and that the Division of the Great
Panegyrical Month contained one Julian year and a
half, and commenced alternately with the manifesta-
tion of the Decan of the G. P. M., and that of the
opposite Decan. It now remains to apply this explana-
tion of the periods of Panegyries to dates found upon
the monuments.
The first date which I have found accompanied by a
King's name is in a tomb in that part of the great
Memphite burial-ground which is adjacent to the Great
Pyramid and to the Second Pyramid. This date I give
in Plate III., No. 12, omitting the usual mention of
offerings which precedes it.
I have already, in speaking of the Tropical Cycle
(Sect. 2), had occasion to prove that the dagger and
palm-branch signify " First Year;" and I gave what I
think to be the reason for the deviation from general
usage in the disposition of these characters. The same
is the case with two other groups in this passage,
which I read " First G. P. M.," and " First Division
of the G. P. M.," the interpretation of which is quite
certain.
The inscription which I am now considering relates
that a certain person made offerings in the commence-
ment of the First Year of the First G. P. M., and the
First Division of the G. P. M.; that is, in the com-
mencement of a Great Panegyrical Year; and that he
lived in the time of King Num-Shufu. In a similar
inscription, on the outside of the tomb, evidently re-
* For an example of the mention of the Decan of the G. P. M.
see Plate III., No. 10, " The G. P. M. (of) Smat," from an inscrip-
tion in a tomb near the Pyramids of El-Geezeh.
AGE OF THE SUPHISES.
61
commenced with the manifestation of the Decan of
the G. P. Y. #; and that the Division of the Great
Panegyrical Month contained one Julian year and a
half, and commenced alternately with the manifesta-
tion of the Decan of the G. P. M., and that of the
opposite Decan. It now remains to apply this explana-
tion of the periods of Panegyries to dates found upon
the monuments.
The first date which I have found accompanied by a
King's name is in a tomb in that part of the great
Memphite burial-ground which is adjacent to the Great
Pyramid and to the Second Pyramid. This date I give
in Plate III., No. 12, omitting the usual mention of
offerings which precedes it.
I have already, in speaking of the Tropical Cycle
(Sect. 2), had occasion to prove that the dagger and
palm-branch signify " First Year;" and I gave what I
think to be the reason for the deviation from general
usage in the disposition of these characters. The same
is the case with two other groups in this passage,
which I read " First G. P. M.," and " First Division
of the G. P. M.," the interpretation of which is quite
certain.
The inscription which I am now considering relates
that a certain person made offerings in the commence-
ment of the First Year of the First G. P. M., and the
First Division of the G. P. M.; that is, in the com-
mencement of a Great Panegyrical Year; and that he
lived in the time of King Num-Shufu. In a similar
inscription, on the outside of the tomb, evidently re-
* For an example of the mention of the Decan of the G. P. M.
see Plate III., No. 10, " The G. P. M. (of) Smat," from an inscrip-
tion in a tomb near the Pyramids of El-Geezeh.