PIIONETIC VALUE OF THE SIGN

Thebes ( Mission française du Caire, vol. II, 3e partie, XIII, 25). The sign appears also in the naine of the tassel

■y — r-r^ /www

2, where the following variants

1 general ly written yield the value

viz.

& £ û Q -rijKi I

' Sarcophagi of the Mentu-hotep, XIth dynasty (Lepsius , Aelt. Text, pp. 6, 21 and 23).

Tomb at Beni-Hassan, Xllth dynasty (Champollion, Notices, II, p. 343).

o Temple of Seti I (Mariette, AbycLos , \, p. 50).

I confine myself to pointing out the above instances, in support of the value as oneof the sounds, if not

the Sound, assigned to the cbaracter ieehi, when used phonetically in coinpound groups. It will be noticed that t=t is, in inany cases, followed by the bar, 1, which, according to M. Erman1 2 3 4, may be considered as a kind of determinative addèd to substantives which are written with one single sign and without any other determinative.

With regard tothe meaning of thegroup (var. ^ ^

màst, it is by no means clear. The word occurs in the well-known passage of the d’Orbiney papyrus (p. 16, 4) where the Princess asks the King to let lier eat the e=i jl ^ màst , of the Bull. Here it lias generally been translated liver, and elsewhere by M. Chabas great intestine h M. Brugsch5 lias suggested, that màst may hâve some connection with the naine of Amset, one of the four funereal