Zeitschrift, p. 143, and Lexicon, V, p

4. P. Le Page Renouf, Proceedings , VI, p. 99; W. Max Millier, A sien und Europa , p. 79.

group

PHONETIC VALUE OF THE SIGN â- — a,

CTTD

M. Karl Piehl bas recently produced two more instances in proof of the sound ( Pro-

ceedings, XIV, p. 45), and I now beg to point out some further examples, which were chiefly obtained by comparison with each other, of the numerous lists of funereal offerings, where the sign :n==i occurs in thenameof theobject called —1 2. In these lists, from the earliest times down to the XIXth dynasty, this group is placed between

and and in the corresponding place shows the fol-

lowing variants, viz. : —

0 g (| tombs at Saqqarah, of the IV th and VIth dynasty ’ il* (Mariette, Mastabas, p. 119 and following). temple of Semneh, XVIIIth dynasty (Lepsius, Denkm., 2 III, pl. 48, 6).

tomb of Ptah-hotep, IVth dynasty (Dümichen, Resultate, XIII, 1. 6).

tomb at Saqqarah, Vth dynasP (Mariette, Mastabas , —g— p. 269; and Recueil d. T., vol. III, Unas, 1. 125). An allitération contained in a text of Mariette’s Abydos (I, plate 33, 4)

— Temple of Seti I at Abydos

lias been already quoted by M. LePage Renouf ( Proceedings , IV, p. 63). The same passage occurs in Seti’s tomb at

1. See J. de Rougé, Textes géographiques, p. 38; P. Le Page Renouf, Transactions , II, p. 304; Maspero, Mélanges d’archéologie, II, p. 298; Karl Piehl, Recueil de Travaux, II, p. 30, and Dictionnaire du Papyrus Harris, p. 39.

2. Dümichen, Hist. Inschr., I, pl. 36, 1. 26; ibid., II, pl. 6, 1. 7; and Lepsius, Ælt. Texte, pl. 10, 1. 12.