. Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Egypte . u(ivaaiap-)( ysv(6fX£vos\ vTtoixvnfioL- TOypâ<p{os) j3ov\{ris) TrjS AOLUTTpOTOtTilJs) This inscription appears to date from about tlie middle of the m centuryA. D. Mr. Grafton Milne tells me that it is interesting as giving therare epithet -Polieusi lo Sarapis, hilherto only known on an inscrip-tion from Xois. The dedicator was minute-secretarv at the senate of a townwhose name is lost, the inscription beingeut short. It mav hâve heen Koptos,though no senate is known to hâve exis-ted there. But as it was as important acity as Arsinoe, He
. Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Egypte . u(ivaaiap-)( ysv(6fX£vos\ vTtoixvnfioL- TOypâ<p{os) j3ov\{ris) TrjS AOLUTTpOTOtTilJs) This inscription appears to date from about tlie middle of the m centuryA. D. Mr. Grafton Milne tells me that it is interesting as giving therare epithet -Polieusi lo Sarapis, hilherto only known on an inscrip-tion from Xois. The dedicator was minute-secretarv at the senate of a townwhose name is lost, the inscription beingeut short. It mav hâve heen Koptos,though no senate is known to hâve exis-ted there. But as it was as important acity as Arsinoe, Hermopolis, and Hera-kleopolis, ali of which had local senatesafter 2 15 A. D., ihere is no reason whythere should not bave been one atKoplos. G. Prehisloric Drmving from Maala. —While ridîng over the prehistoric ceme-teries of the Maala district (oppositeAsfun) I collected some fragments of bro- Pi„ 5 ken pottery, amongst which there was onepièce inscribed with the interesting drawing shown in the illustration (fig. 5 ] Annales, 1907. ^. [12] —so- it represents a bull held aloft upon a pôle, and supported by means of afork at the top. Tliis was probably a tribal standard, but it does notseem possible to identify it witb any of tbe known standards. Originallythe pot must bave been some 5o centimètres in lieigbt. I give an ap-proximate restoration of it in the sketch. I]. P. Weigall. NOTES DINSPECTION M. GEORGES LEGRAIN. XXXIX LE NOM DHORUS DE DARIUS. 1i il La cachette de Karnak nous a rendu un fragment de terre émailléejaune, haut de o m. oG cent, et large de o m. o55 miil. qui semble êtrela partie supérieure dune ^ monaït. Un anneau demême mutière, faisant corps, servait à suspendre cetobjet. Deux lignes dIiiéroglyphes, gravées en creux,verticalement, sur la face extérieure, nous fournissentle cartouche de Darius et aussi le nom dilorus ou dedouble que, pour ma part, je ne connaissais pasencore. Le texte est malheureusement brisé par en le rep
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