NV\/V\ C

for ), « his daughter, who loves him^ Qim », and "^^M

[] 0 I i|, j (( her son, who loves her, Temnen ».

There is every reason to think that Si-Mentu had married his sister, and that Temnen was his as well as Qim's child. Usortesen is about to sacrifice a goose to his father, according to rite, and Mentuhotep bears an ox-thigh. . The inscription begins with :

mîZMîZK(MMB]fâ^

I ) ' ^ " The living Hor, who unités both lands, the

lord of diadems, who unités both lands, King of Upper and Lower Egypt (son of Râ, Mentuhotep), everliving; — his

true servant, who is in the inmost recess of his heart, and makes his pleasure ail the day long, the devoiit unto the great god, Iritisen. »

The formula of proscynem contains some uncommon varia-

tions of the usiial text. (Line 3 :) 1 ^ /\ H J) ^^^^^ ÏÏ

ri

^M^.Une5:)YfJ-ln:^l

(Line G

{sic)

/Vy\AAA

1 AWA^ « Proscynem to Osiris lord of Mendes, Khent-

Ament, lord of Abydos, in ail his places,, that he may give a funereal meal of bread and drink, thousands of loaves, liquors, oxen, geese, linen, clothes, ail good and pure things, loaves without number'', béer, spirits^ cakes of the lord of Abydos, white cream (?) of the sacred cow ', on which the Mânes ' like to feed ^ for the devout unto Osiris and Anubis,

lord of the bury ing grounds, the chief of artists, the Iritisen. »

The word

rd <^

is derived from

of the formative ^ 1 1, so that ^

^ , ^ ^ , by addition is tJie nian of d, the

for

Sensé doubtful, probably froiu

« without reckoning ».

, incalcsccre, ferccrc.

3. The cow bas a sun-disk, O, between Ihe horns, in the original.

4. The sign before the ^^ is a variant of ©, which is found often

in hieroglyphical texts of llie XI-XIII"' Dj-nastios. It is derived from the hieratic form of ©.

^' "T* Q() ^°'' T Si)' ^y ^ mistake of the scribe in the transcription of the hieralic original.

THE STÈLE C l4 OF THE LOUVRE

man who cats (litt. : scrapes) the hieroglyphics and engraves the scènes on the walls of tombs and temples. In one of the versions of Sineh's life (Inscriptions in the Hieratic and Demotic Charactevs, pi. XXIII, Ostr. 5629,

line 2), it is told that k ^ "^ ^ ^^ ~^ ""^ ^ ^ " '^^^®