AN EGYPTIAN LINEN MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENT
AN EGYPTIAN LINEN MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENT PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C. With an illustration of a gardening scene including three figures watering and tending trees, the tree on the left a Tamarinde, brought into Egypt in the Persian occupation, with three lines of script below written in a simplified form of demotic character reading, 1) possibly ... itn.f "his sun-disk"; followed by Da name of a district in the Tanite nome; ... Sn "garden"(??); 2) ... mAA "to see"; ... possibly aA "great"; ... possibly tw.k "you..." (verbal prefix of 1st Present verbal construction); 3) ... name of a plant; ... possibly n "of" qnH"(the) shrine"; possibly in-nA pAy.f "If his..." 90 x 120 mm.
AN EGYPTIAN LINEN MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENT
AN EGYPTIAN LINEN MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENT PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C. With an illustration of a gardening scene including three figures watering and tending trees, the tree on the left a Tamarinde, brought into Egypt in the Persian occupation, with three lines of script below written in a simplified form of demotic character reading, 1) possibly ... itn.f "his sun-disk"; followed by Da name of a district in the Tanite nome; ... Sn "garden"(??); 2) ... mAA "to see"; ... possibly aA "great"; ... possibly tw.k "you..." (verbal prefix of 1st Present verbal construction); 3) ... name of a plant; ... possibly n "of" qnH"(the) shrine"; possibly in-nA pAy.f "If his..." 90 x 120 mm.
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