Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale <al-Qāhira> [Hrsg.]; Mission Archéologique Française <al-Qāhira> [Hrsg.]: Recueil de travaux relatifs à la philologie et à l'archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes: pour servir de bullletin à la Mission Française du Caire (10.1888)

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Provincial and Private collections, Great Britain.

table. The inscription fills six horizontal lines. It is ill-cut, and in three places illegible.
The exécution of the tablet is also very coarse and scratchy.

It will be observed that in lines 5 and 6 the lapidary scribe lias erroneously sub-
stituted the féminine determinative |j^> for ^ after the name of Renpit-nefer. The date of
the tablet is probably late Ptolemaic or early Roman.

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The following translation of the above stela was made in 1885 by the late Dr. Birch,
and is in the possession of the curator of the Peel Park Muséum : —

'Act of bornage to Osiris, ruler of the West, great God, Lord of Abydos, who gives
sepulchral meals of oxen and birds and ail good and pure things off which a God lives, to
thy Ka, blessed Osiris Renpa-nefer Justificd, son of the one attached to the rolls, the singer
of the Ka . . . royal relative, the one in bis mbnth of the second class Harut'a, boni of the
lady of the house Ariu, Justified. He says : Oh, Osiris Renpa-nefer walking in the présence

of the great living god a second time.....the very great year of the sun, the devoted

to Osiris Renpa-nefer, justified to the great god in Abydos.'

II. A limestone stela measuring 2 f* in hcight by 15 incites in breadth. The top is
rounded. In the centre, the signet and libation cup are flanked by the two symbolic eyes.
Beneath this heading is seen a group of three persons in adoration before 'Osiris the great
God of Abydos' and 'Horus son of Isis the great God dwelling in Auienti'. Osiris wears the
Atef crown, a collai- and menai, ^nd%.grasps the 'coucoufa' sceptre with both hands. Horus
holds a similar wand in lus kû hand and the Ankh in lus right hand. Both deities are
seated on thrones. In front of Osiris is a, table of offerings laden with loaves, a libation
vase, ribs of beef, vegetables and a large bouquet of lotus lilies. The second register con-
tains eight figures ; namely three groups of persons seated on chairs, two and two ; two
standing maie figures in adoration; and two tables of offerings. The third register also con-