Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum . 1^ I Lifl 3u ROYAL SCRIBES, PRIESTS, ETC. 121 hasoui,^ gathered in plaits rouiiil tlio loins, and forming a kind of apron in front: on his feet aresandals. He holds before him a small tablet, wliich, when complete, had probably a roundedtop. On it is a cartouche, surmounted by a disk and plumes, and based on the Egyptian symbolfor Noub, or gold. The cartouche contains the prenomen of Ramcsses III. the Sun, the directorof truth (I) approved of the Sun; and at tlie sides are two notched jjahn-branches, emblems ofyears,^ based on tadpoles
Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum . 1^ I Lifl 3u ROYAL SCRIBES, PRIESTS, ETC. 121 hasoui,^ gathered in plaits rouiiil tlio loins, and forming a kind of apron in front: on his feet aresandals. He holds before him a small tablet, wliich, when complete, had probably a roundedtop. On it is a cartouche, surmounted by a disk and plumes, and based on the Egyptian symbolfor Noub, or gold. The cartouche contains the prenomen of Ramcsses III. the Sun, the directorof truth (I) approved of the Sun; and at tlie sides are two notched jjahn-branches, emblems ofyears,^ based on tadpoles, emblems of multiplicity,^ seated upon objects resembling signets,emblematic of the suns orbits,* from which time springs. At the back is a single vertical lineof hieroglyphics, the names and titles of the functionary, viz. the good hard of the lord of thetwo worlds (the hing), attached to his majesty at his side (?), tlie royal scrihe of the tables of allthe gods, Phtahrnai, or Phtah-mere, truth speaking. The office of royal minstrel seems to havebeen
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