Part VI Leiden Explanation of Signs.pdf

EXPLANATION OF SIGNS

TRANSLATION.

are placed in spare brackets [: 1. Lacunae in

the original, for which no restoration is suggested, are represented

by dots. Words in rouizd brackets ( ) are not in the original,

but are added by the translators; those between angular

brackets ( ) are intended to be omitted.

The second person singular has been rendered by ‘ thou, thee’

in invocations, by (you’ elsewhere. In the very few instances

in which the second person plural occurs, it is indicated by the

use of ‘ ye ’ or ‘ you ’ (plur.) ; (bis) following a word indicates

that the word is followed in the original by the sign sp s?z,

implying that the word or phrase is to be repeated.

An accurate transcription of the magic names is given in the

transliteration ; in the translation we have rendered the sound

approximately without strict adherence to any one system,

generally following the glosses where they exist, as it was

thought that this would be the most useful .course for such

readers as are not Egyptian scholars.

RESTORATIONS

TRANSLITERATION.

For the system, see note preceding the demotic glossary.

Words transliterated with Coptic letters betwem asteyisks are

written in cipher in the original.

REFERENCES.

]In referring to the plates of the papyrus in vol. ii, Col. I. 1. I is

quoted as I/I and verso, Col. 11. 1. 3 as V. 2/3, &c.