PHONETIC VALUE OF THE SIGN T==T

genii, who présidés over the embalmed viscer'a. The déterminatives whichaccompany the said grouparegenerally 9 and ^ , but in some instances a spécial sign, is attached to it. It is illustrated by a picture in a tomb at Saqqarah, descri bed by Mariette1, representing a servant who brings on his left shoulder the leg of a slaughtered animal and offers as sacrifice in his extend right liand, the object above figured, which is painted in red and called U "b , màst, in the descriptive text. Hence it would seem that it represents an internai organ of the animal’s body, perhaps the stomach. The group — »— occurs several times in the Ebers papyrus (pp. 36, 1. 9; 66, 5; 67, 7), but in neither passage does the context give anyclue to its exact meaning.