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An Inscription from Egypt
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
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A rectangular slab of marble, measuring 14⅜ in. × 12 in. × nearly 1's College, Cambridge; said to have been found in the neighbourhood of Memphis.
Dated the nineteenth year of Antoninus Pius, A.D. 157.
The letters are not all of the same size or shape, being squarer in the upper part of the inscription, 1–3, as and in the rest, especially the last three lines, approaching to the shape of written characters, as They have been coloured red, and many of them still are so.
(2) Μάλαλις, (4) Πιαθρηοῦς: I can find no trace of these places. The second, Prof. W. R. Smith suggests, may be the Place of Hathor.
(6) Iota adscript kept in this old formula, although it is omitted in (l).
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