The Store City of Pithom And the Route of the Exodus volume 1
The Store City of Pithom And the Route of the Exodus volume 1
Edouard Naville
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The first line of the text is quite legible ; but after this the engraver becomes more and more careless. He does not seem to have even calculated the length of the signs which he had to put in ; in the middle lines we see large signs badly drawn, irregular, and sometimes separated by blanks. Suddenly, at line twenty-four, the style changes, the engraver being perhaps replaced by one more skilful ; and we have hieroglyphics of the Ptole- maic style, much smaller, but well engraved and easy to r...ead. In such conditions, it is impossible to give a complete translation of the tablet, which contains many new words and geographical names, which add to the difficulty of decipherment. It is therefore only a first attempt, a rough sketcli, which I now venture to offer, liotli as regards the transcription and translation of tlie text. There arc many blanks in the inscription which might be tilled up by a careful comparison with the original. The plates are engraved from my own paper casts, and from ^photographs made by Mr.
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