A Late Ptolemaic Statue of Hathor from Her Temple at Dendereh Author(s): Hermann Ranke Source: Journal of the American

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A LATE PTOLEMAIC STATEE OF HATHOR FROMHER TEMPLEAT DENDEREH

HERM SSN RANE:E
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANLA

IN MAT1940, a life-size torsol of gray-black granite,2 with severalcolumnsof an inscriptionin Ptolemaichieroglyphsa was acquired 3 by the IJniversity Museumof the Universityof Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, andreceived the inventory number 40-19-3. A first brief report, with a front-viewphotograph, was publishedin the MuseumBulletin of September,19aIOa while a comprehensive publication had to be postponeduntil a more thorough investigationof this interestingpiecewas made. I. THESTSTUE The statue representsa woman standing,with her leCt leg advanced,against a narrow pillar, whichprobably reached up to the backof her neck.4 She is clothedin at least two garments. The lower one has short sleeves,of which only the right one is visible. It is rather tightly fitting but shows flat folds running from the right shoulderdown to the breast. ()verthis, an uppergarment,apparently of somewhat heaviertexture,5is worn. This upper garment,a kind of shawl or cloak draped closely over the figure, is evidentlya rectangular piece of cloth fringed on one border. ()ne end of it was wrappedabout the waist to form a skirt reachingto the feet. The free end, whichborethe Iringe,was drawnacrossthe right side, underthe right slloulder,acrossthe breastand over the leCt shoulder. The fringe now hung overthe left wrist, half the bordershowingin front and half hanging downthe back. The latter half was drawnclosely acrossthe back and a cornerof it broughtunder
1The exact measurements of the torso are: height 127 cm., greatest breadth 44cm., greatest depth 30cm. 3 According to a mineralogical analysis the statue consists of ' andesite.' In the lorer parts of the statue the stone shows whitish striations of quartz. 8 Together with two other Egyptian monuments in the possession of Mr. H. Kevorkian of New York City. 4As is the case for example with Philadelphia E 975, an approximately contemporary statue of a man from :&optos. 6 Whether of linen or of wool it is difficult to say. If the passage in Eerodotus II 81 should refer to our costume, we would have to assume a white woolen garment above a linen shirt. 238

the right shoulderso as to show slightly in front. It was held in placeby the left hand. The shawl is indicatedby broadfolds on both sides of the backand by narrower folds on the left side of the chest. Its upper borderwhich runs from the left shoulderto below the right breast, has been more thiekly folded.6 A triangle below the neck seemsto indicatea third garmentunderneath the othersawhich probablyconsistedo a simpletight-fittinglinen shirt. A shawlof the kind just described is not found among the diferent forms of Egyptian clothing. Neither the cloak-likegarmentwhich Amenhotep III wears in his statuette in the Metropolitan Museumin New York,7nor the large cloak worn by a noblemanon a relief of the Saitic time,8can be regarded as evencloselysimilarto it. The main difference, besidethe truncated formof the stylized fringed triangles,is the fact that the shawlof our statueis held in placeby one hand-a featureforeign to pureltr Egyptiangarmentsof this period.9 0n the other hand, our garmentcannotbe separated from very similar shawls worn by men, which we know from a numberof statues10and
6 In the case of the Koptos statues mentioned in note 10,1 this upper shawl is represented by four stylized folds. T Schaefer-Andrae? Dwe JE?lnst des alten Ortents 1925?

pl. 332.

hfonuments et Mdmoires de la Ptondation Piot? vol. 25,

8G. Benedite? "La cueillette du lis et le slirinon,"'

p. 9 and pl. V. 9 This fact distinguishes our shawl also from the cloak worn by the bronze statuette of a priest of the Saitic period? now in the Louvre, published by Boreux, Cat. Louxre II? pl. 53; Bosse? JIenschliche Ptigur, pl. 1 f.; Moller? Sletallkuvnst der alten Aegypter? pl. 29. 1. Statue of a man in brown sandstone, from Koptos, in the University Museum in Philadelphia (E 975). See Woptosn p. 22; American Journal of Archaeology? vol. 10?p. 347 S. 2. Statue of a man in black basalt?from Dime?in the Glyptothek in Munich. Publ. by F. von BissingBruckmann, Denkmaler agyptischer Skulptur, pl. 108a. 3. Statue of a man in black stone? from Dima in the iE:gyptianCollection of the State AIuseum in Berlin (11632). Publ. by H. Schaefer in SchaeferAndrae E:unst des alten Orients, 1925, pl. 4276. 4. Statue of an official in black basalt, from Dim
Petrie?

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reliefsl} carvedin Egypt during the time o the rule7and the origin of which is still Greco-Roman
disputed.l2

in the Egyptian Museum in Alexandrla. Publ. by Paul Graindorn " Bustes et statues portraits dltgypte romain," Le Catre, 1:7ntsersitd Egyptiene, Recuert de trasaw publH por la Aaultd des lettres3 pl. 58 and p 127 f.

5 Statuette of an official in black stone, from Bed rashein ( ?) ) in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Publ. by L. Borehardt, Statuen III (1930) pl. 128,no. 696 (cf.p. 38f.); Graindor,l.c pl. 59 and p. 129 f. 8. Statue of Hor, a priest of Thot in basaltv from Ale2candria,in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Publ. by L. Borchardt, z G. pl. 128} no. 697 (cfw p. 39); Graindor, a. c. pl. 65f. and p. 138f.; Art of Egypt, 1931, p. 283 1. Deni30n-:Ros3, 7. Torso of the priest of Eathor, Pen-nut gPanas)3 from Dendereh, in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Publ. by L. Borchardtv t. c. pL 127, no. 690 (cf. p. 34). 8. Torso of an oflicial in grey granite3 of anknown provenience, in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Publ. by L. Borchardt, I. c. pl. 127, no. 691 (cf. pp. 35-7). unknown, in 9. Torso of black granite, prourenienee the Gallery of Fine Arts} Yale lininrersity, New Eaven, Conn. Publ. by Jose Pijoan, ' E1 Arte Egypcio" Smma Artis) voL 3 (Madrid) 1932), p. 480 fig. 640. 10. Granite torso, of unknown prourenience in the Glyptothek at Copenhagen. Publ. by Maria Mogensen} La collection Xypttenne 193Q pl. 20J A86 (cf. p. 21 ) . 11. Torso of a man in black granite, of unknown proTeniences ill the Metropolitan Museum in New York (ace. no. X250) theight 91 cm.). Unpublished. 12. Torso of a man in black stone, from iKarnak, in the AlIard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam. Publ. by G. A. S. Snijder, A{nemosyne, Tertia Serres, vol. 7 ( 1935) s pl. 12, no. 3. 13. Statue of a priestf from Dendereh) in the Cairo Museum. Deseribed by Daressya jlnnates 17, 91. (Fragmexlt of a simiIar one rbid p. 93.) 14. Statue of a goddess (queen?), with head and fed preserved, in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo by aceident partly reprodueed on backgraund of pl. 4a in Georges Dutheit, La swIpture Gopte Paris, 1931. 1. King Ptolemy III, in the temple of :Shons at Rarnak. PublXby Lepsius Denkmaler IV, pl. 9a. 2* King Ptolemy IX) in his temple at Som Ombo. Publ. by von Bissillg-Bruckmane, Denkmaler pl.
116. }

holdsherleft armslightlybent)in Ihe woman the right part of the frontof her body,drawing in her left handa bouandcarries shawltight,13 meantto probably quetof threestylizedflowers7 Therighta hallgsdsw blossoms.l4 bepapyrus but empty. the body,its handclosed alongside the fact that the eet,the headand iExcepting partof theneckandof theleft shoulder thegreater of the statueis away the preservatio-n arebroken
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workmanit is a pieceof remarleable Artistically and of of armsand breasts ship. The molllding of the garment the renderillg the right shoulder, formof the bodyis indianathe waythe slender show the hand of a master cated underneatha statlleof this of no otherEgyptian artist. I know tme whichwouldequalit in this respect. of Thestyleis Egypti$n Onlyin the rendering the folds of boththe lowerand uppergarments the rightkneeis disarldbelow the breasts above of Greekforms which cerniblea reminiscence
Allard Pierson MuseamX'I Mnemosyne, Tertia Sernesw vol. 7 (1935), p. 243t Snijder assumes a very long garment of thin fabric which was wrapped around the body four times-an assumption which seems unnecessarily cotnplicated. As to its origin, Snijder follows A. Scharff, who considers it Egyptian, but he certainly goes too far when he claims that it is cseine uralte} traditionelle, typisch agyptische Tracht.' It is neither { uralt " nor typically Egyptian, and I still wonder whether its origin did not lie outside of Egypt. The from a cofflnof the 26th dynasty garment of a doormany which ScharS compares (ilgyptische Zeitschrift 74, p. 43 ) t seems to be quite different. The earliest known examples are two reliefs of the 30th dynasty, which Scharff describes in the same paper (ibid. p. 44 figs. 2 and 3). 13 This function of the left hand is more clearly indicated in a number of the statues of men mentioned in n. 10: cf. Berlin 11632 (Schaefer-Andraeop ctt. 4276) Philadelphia E 975. In our case the double functiorl of the hand, tightening the shawl and holding the fowers is rendered rather awkwardly. :t For this item I am unable ta quote an exact parallel. the well-known Egyptian custom of repreCf. howenter, stem senting the statues of goddesses holding a papyru3 the papyrus as the sacred pIant ln front of them. }3sor of Eathor in particuIar cf. Sethe, J. Z 64, p. 6 . The Ptolemaic statue of a man wearing a similar dress, also comes from Dendereh is descrikedby Daressy W}lic}l (lnrtales 17, 91) as holding "une fleur de lotus.'> z6Both hands are slightly chipped; a littIe more damage has been done to the lower part of the left legv The feet of a similar statue from Dendereh--unfortunately not the missing part of our piece-with traces of a closely parallel inscription, are mentionedby Daressy, Annales 17, p. 93, IV.

3. Private mrn,formerly in the collection von Biss ing. Publ. by von Bissing-Bruckmann}Op. Cit. pl. 120a. 1 The latest axld most elaborate discussion, with ample references to the earlier literature, is given by I)r. G. A. S. Snijder in his " Mitteilullgell aus dem

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familiarto the Egyptianartist; hardlya real were art.ld of GEreek influence As to the identificationof the statue, there is verylittle evidenceoutsideof the inscription. The existenceor non-existenceof some headgear or crownmight have decidedwhethera human17or a goddesswas represented.Whetherthe bunch of on this point, wouldbe decisive,I am not flowers, ableto say. the statue has an inscriphowever, :Fortunately, tion. There were three long columns of hieroglyphs incised on the rear of the back pillar and four shorterones of varying lengths, on its left side, adjoining the left-hand side of the statue. These last four have been perfectly preservedof the last signs of eachcolumn, with the exception which were brokenofEtogetherwith the feet. Of the columns on the rear, the same is true concerning the originally lowest signs, but here we have a greater loss besides: while little seems to be missing on top of the first two columns,the great damage resulting,among third one suffered 18 destruction otherthings, in the almostcomplete of the name of the oEcial, with whose titles the
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A secondfact points in the samedirectioIl.The whichform a considerable othertitles of ourofficial part of the inscription,are quite similar to and, in parts - even in their arrangement- identical with thosefoundon the statuesof two high officials who of Dendereh,now in the Cairo Museum>19 lived in early Romantimes. They are a probably nw . t) Panas (p'-n-nw . t), son of mayor (t 1,mXy-r Psenthais ('sry-n-thy. t) and a certaiIl Sorax (7cwrks,formerlyread Georgios),who on the naos " thich he is holdingis called " son of Ptolemaios he appearsas " son of the while on the back-pillar of the army, Psenpkais" (p'-sry [ncommander p']-k'y). Neither of them is priest of the Ptolemaic rulers. Both seem to have belongedto a of whichthe anonymagnates, family of Dendereh mous man of our statue may have been an earlier member. Thus if the date of the statue is well fised, the inscription leaves equally little doubt as to its provenience. The oScial who is so prominently mentionedin it bears a number of titles which definitelyconnecthim with the city of Dendereh and its temple. We are able to state even more: the statue must have originallystood within the Deglns. nscrlptlon approsian temenosof the Hathor temple itselfs for it is to give The forms of the hieroglyphs priestsof this templethat the officialaddresses example, the for n sign The statue. the mate date for his name while they are repeatedlyformed with only two instead of four his requestto pronounce services,exactly as is religious their of the latest part performing or more waves, is characteristic :Soraswhosestatue of inscription the in case the periods. of the Ptolemaicand the Roman Dendereh. In our of temple the of in not stood once Ptolemaic, of is inscription the That not a man. a womanis represented, Roman times, is evident from the fact that the case,however, to consult have we difficulty this solve officialis called a priest of the "beneficentgods In orderto itself. well-known inscription the the and of the father-lovinggods," designationof severalPtolemaickings of Egypt. II. THEINSCRIPTION The title Ssot;pyerels, first given to Ptolemy III and BereniceII, occursagain with Ptolemy VII The cutting of the inscriptionin the very hard IIn but their time seems too early granite has been esecutedwith considerable and Cleopatra skill. occurs for our inscription. The title blow, awkward an by The stone was neverinjured with Ptolemy IV and Arsinoe III, and also with and most of the signs are quite clearly cut. The VI. This latter time PtolemyXIII and Cleopatra ratherclumsyforms of the hieroglyphsand their wouldsuit muchbetter,and althoughI cannotsee crowded arrangementare characteristicof late their rule, that that they werealso calledevgpyeves, Ptolemaicor early Roman times the lack of a is the most C., B. 51 and 81 between time is the likely date for our statue. 19 The inscriptions on these statues were published by
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16For the rendering of a very Greek artist cf. the statue of Isis, liches Verzeichnis, 1899, p. 32B. 17 I must confess, however, that is known to me which was set up of the Graeco-Roman period. 18Intentional ?

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Daressy, Recueil 15, p. 159, no. 8 (republ. by Borchardt, Statuen III, 690) and Annales 16, pp. 268-70. They will be quoted hereafter as " Cairo 690 " and " Annales 16 " re3pectively. Both must have stood in the temple of Hathor at Dendereh, in the vicinity of which they were found. Korax, among other titles, bears that of " brother of the king." For the reading Koras rather than Georgios see Sethe, ].Z. 58, 150.

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1. The Ttttes of the 0ffi121 hieroglyphicpalaeography makes a closer dating difficult. The use of a number of SigB8 iIl their The6etitles caIlbe dividedinto threegroups: well-knownPtolemaicphoneticvalues is obvious. courttitles, military titles and priestlytitles. The As-vase instead of the mr-chisel (in smr) i8 Tttles rare but occurs also in the inscriptionof Panas, a. Coqzrt and the sanze is true of the replacementof the speakinginsteadof the seatedman (in our inscripx :l tion after shD, in that of Panas after mrw.!). A X;@] sign resemblingthat of nys is usea for ntr-'z, reckn placing the more complicated form mentionedin &4 czcX Note 81. For the writing of hr hw with the jubilating man I know of no parallel, nor for the tonglleas a determinative of shr.w. ' The [ ...., ] prince,treasurerof the kirlgof The seated baboonis used as a writing for ss IJower Egypt, only belovedfriend of the king, the "scribe.)) A sign resemblinga vase is found pre- great prince (sr) in front of the people (rhy.t), ceding the words bw dsr in the speech of the great of favors in the house of Horus, of wide priests, while it follows the same expressionin a 6tridein the palace (stp-s; ) ." Ptolemaic inscriptionin Vienna (see Note 75). These titles hardlycorrespond to any particular The repeateduse of the small w for the flesh-sign office,even the designation"treasurerof the king (f) in the militarytitles goesbackto the similarity of LowerEgypt" havingbecomemeanillgless long of both signs in a carelesscursive,and may in our beforethis time. They containnothingmorethall case point to a cursiveoriginal. the owner>6 claim -whetherjustifiedor not-that Thereare very few mistakes(as e. g. o:ace zmy-r he had personalaccessto the royalpalace. pr for iwy-r). Before;' Hathor,the uraeus-serpent of Re" the word "priest" is omitted, and so is b. XiGitary Fitles the nameof lIathor after "fourth Priest." At the very end, when the carverhad becometired, once kn2$t> gp UnS4fl;Z^> nb standsfor k. SttizU' t@48S The addition of a meaningless8igN i8 hardly ever found, and, with the exceptionof the suffis *ofil Tgl|S desu .w that once is used instead of .n (in Zy.w, at the end), there are no traces whateverof "New Egyptian." The language is strictly that of the ciassicMiddleKingdoin,and even of the considerable phoneticchangeswhich the spokenlanguage 2t The court titIes of our official, where fragmentarily hadundergone sincethat titnehardlyan intimation preserved, can be partly restored from the titles found (tm for drn;;pronounce') is discernible. on the statues of Panas and Korax. 32 The traces of the badly damaged beginning of the The inscription itself 20 consists of three main do not allow us to restore rp'.ta as we find parts of very differentlength. The first and long- inscription in Cairo 690 and AnnaIes 16, 269. Perhaps we must est part contains the titles of a high officialof it restore something like rp'.t qer; cf. LE3orchardt, Statuen I)endereh. The secorLd part contains his address III, p. 36. 23For my restoration cf. Annales 16, 2B9. to the priestsof the templeof Hathor,the last one I supply an addressdirectedto him by the representatives the sitting man after mrw.t because it is found there and in Cairo 690. The same usage is found in our of this temple. inscription after s&'.
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(zmy-r) of the armyin .... " Greatcommander (my-r) of the chariotry,leader (wr) commander of his troops (ms'), chief of his recruits(?), 8 of his soldiers leader (S'-Xpy) aroundall his troops bronze of shelter his soldiers (mP)." a choice While some of these titles appear to be, alld some of them evidently are honorific epithets, rather than designationsof a real rank or function the first two must be taken seriouslyComand 'G#reat of the Chariotryn 'Commander manderof the Army.' The latter, placedin front of all the others,must have been the most important one. Whetherit proves our officialto have of one i. e. a militarycommander beena zrr,on7yos, of the Egyptiandistrictsor ' nomes' or not, I am not preparedto say.33 We know that a certain Pamencheswho in a Demoticinscriptionis called inscriptionbearsthe in his hieroglyphic T!pT\7OSn But we do not knowwhether title zmy-r period all Egyptian officialsof the Graeco-Roman al60 army' the of who were 'great commanders immewords the Unfortunately (rrprryo. were diately following the title in our inscriptionare rlot with certainty explainable. While in other ca6esthe title eitherstanas by itself or is followed by the name of the nome or nomes in which the it is here followedby officialservedas op{Ln7yos
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2 bGPs 4 <2X SQ,.uR 6 moires Miesion, 20 (1928), p. 33. Cf. ibid. p. 32 1. 5 and q t , 52 1. f., and ef. also A. Seharff, {'Der historisehe Ab- 2/ t a b E 2115 sehnitt der Lehre fur K6nig Merikare," Fitzungsb. d. g@?T n Bayer. Akad., 1936, Heft 8, p. 15 f., n. 6. t@X-l.41 Worterbuch3, 220. . ,> 27 For b'-tpy see Erman-Grapow, Recueil Cf. 28To be read dbwbt' h' tsy.w.f nb(.w). nb.y n Jbw h'.y "the plans de travauz 2d, 9: Xbwr.w of my lord were a shelter around me.' 9Unfortunately I am unable to identify with eertainty the signs after Stp and before m'. 80 Cf. Erman-Grapow,Wh. 3, 220. M.*a@Jlls8 al Cf. A. Alt's article "Eie murus aheneus esto" in EDMS 86 (1933) pp. 33-48, with a Ilumberof :13gyptian referenees. 82 The word '. t " wall " seems otherwise unknown ;n p2, a metaphorical sense. But ef. "wall of his nome'} Ea (&drn sp.t.f) as epithet of a high offieial in Dendereh, Annales 17, 91. For " ehoiee wall " ef. Wb. 4, 339, 13. The names of a number of such military commanders are known. See Eenri Henne, " Liste des strateges des nomes dgyptiens A l'dpoquegrdco-romaine," 86Cf. Heene, 1.c., p. 2f, n. 1. Metnoaresde l'Inststq4tfranQais d'archeologie orientale Fe fi be correctedto 0 4 t 86 Should Daress<s du Caire, tome 56, Le Caire, 1935. The question of the p. 29 discussed OI1 native No photograph of the text has beeIl published. 84 See Spiegelberg, L Z. 57, 88 . (not '&,)-{b br Sbr.ro ill the 87 Dr. Federn sllggests 'zG

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and goddessespresiding over the birth"Familiar with ( 7) the councils of the goas and chamber. goddesses. Ee is not .............. (gap) . . the primeval onewhobeganto comeinto esistence as Priestof Osiris, the greatgod whois worshipped the firstoneof them. in (hry-zb)Dendereh and of Hathor,the uraeus-serpent of Re. Priest of Isis, the greatone,motherof the gOd, mistressof ' . t-dy who is worshipped in Priestof Isis withthe 1nny.twhoiB worshipped in (hry.t-b) Edfu. (hry.t-tb)Dendereh, together with the gods Priest of Isis, ' shetraverses the twolands.> Priest of Isis, ' possessor of sweet breeze.' sense "familiar with, initiated into" the counsels, etc. For a confusion between 'k " to enter " and 'k', cf. Wb. Priest Qf Isis, 'lady of phr.t'. 1, 233 and Brugsch, Dictionnarre, Suppldment, p. 287. Priest of Harsomtus, the greatgOd,the lord of The nearest parallel to our passage would be Rosettana h't. no. 25 (Sethe, Urkunden II 185): fb.f 'k .hrSbr.ro.en.
The tongue as determinative of sbr i8 unknown to mc perhaps there is a confusion with the 8igIl of Sbr.t (cf. Wb. 4, 261). a8 For this sign see Moller, Palaopraphie III 53, n. 3, and i. Z. 43, 124. S9 The meaning of this passage remains uncertain The reading n n.f ("he does not repel,2' Wb. 2, 337) or n nX . w . f (" he is not repelled " ?) and not nn Sp( t ) . f (" he is not angry," cf. Wb. 4, 454) is supported by the parallel passage Annales 17, 93, unfortunately also in an unclear and damaged context. The hatched part above the bird in our passage seems rather to be a break than the nw sign. Cf. also J. Polotsky, Zx den Inschriften der 11. Dynastie ( 1929), p. 31, and Wreszinski, Jgyptische Inschrsften, p. 111, 6-7. ' For &,'.t ' the primeval one " as an epithet of Hathor, cf. Wb. 4, 409. For &,'.t ,' bpr see Mariette, DendEah III 511, 76a, 80i. '1 For m tpy n.Sn cf. Wb. 5, 280, 19. In the gap other deities must have been mentioned.
49 So al80 Annales 16 (pillar). Gauthier (II 150) reads phr. t as an epithet of Dendereh. Cf. Junker, Onurislependev p. 37 ( psr. t ). This evidently corresponds to itnntes 16 (naos) hm-ntr .Ersm'-t 'wy ntr (thus! ) nb 8't. Harsomtus, as son of Eathor in her temple at Dendereh, always has this epithet. See Mariette I, 69 below, II 2 and passim.
t)

For &,t, a variant of t/\ etc., and its locatioIl, see Gauthier IV 163-5 and Junker, Onurielegende,p. 3Bf. gl The same titles, which were borne by neither Panas or Korax, are found in Wreszinski, op. cit. p. 97, 1. 3 (cf. p. 101). ro'b-priestsof the "beneficent gods2' are mentioned in the decree of Canopus, 12. 62 Cf. Annales 16 (pillar) . A { fourth " priest of Hathor is found in Mariette IV pll. 6 and 15. 68 The hieroglyph seems to show a seated deity with a bird's beak. The sign following it is unknown to me. It is not that of the god Min. 6'Cf. Annales 16 (pillar) < | @ ? But the disk with the two uraei is certain. Could ' sanctuaries of the kings' be meantl Cf. Wb. 2, 331-32. 66For {my-r-pr alone, among other titles of a priest of the Ptolemaic period, cf. Wreszinski, Sg. Insch. p. 144f. Cf. Annales 169( rlaos) 7MV fQv Xi t3 . 67Cf. Annales 17, 93. For s.t-I.lr(.w) as a rsameof Edfu see Gauthier, Dict. gdogr. V 84. 68 Cf. Annales 17, 93
66

naos ) and

Cairo 690. 48For Hathor bWnty(.t) S.t rnshn.t see Mariette II 34a and 3a above. Esor Isis with a similar title cf. i,bsd. III Db, 16, 43p. " This evidently corresponds to Annales 16 (naos) hm ntr n ?esjr ntr '+ (thus' ) hry Jb wn.t, following the same title hm-ntr n 's.t wr.t nb.t i,.t-dy. '6 hm-ntr has to be supplied before Eathor; cf. Annoles 1B (nao8) For hry.t-tp as an epithet of iE[athor see Mariette III 21v, 25d. '6Identical with Annales 16 (naos). Cf. also flnnates 17, 92. 1. 5, and Mariette II 76. 'tCf. kDb.t-t'.wy as a name of Dendereh, Wb. 5, 10 and Gauthier, Dictionnaire gdographique, V 173. The parallel in ilnnales 16 ( pillar) has gyj In our text the reading dbn. S t, . wy aeems to be intended. For a superfluous ' cf. Junker, Srammatsk der Denderatewte p. 6. *8 Identical with itn7aks 16 (pillar) folIowing the same title.

tA

,ao ( 0 avS<,

back pillar );

alBo

M&w7hQ ug

XmGi11No'Y?440b5n
Annales 16 (pillar) @@J, and Bj h.t-ntr n pr-'' n fton, Wreszinski, op. cit. p. 145 (statue of the Ptolemaic period) . Cf. also Ahmed Bey Kamal, Steles ptolemaiques 22049 (p. 45 ), 1. 3. The baboon as a Ptolemaic writing for se {' scribe " (obviously because of Thots role as scribe of the gods) i8 known from Cairo 31099; see Spiegelberg, Die demottschen Inschriften (Catal. gindral 1904), p. 30. 68 Cf. the temples of first, second and third rank in the decrees of Rosetta and Canopus alld 2 N tS Annales 17, 92, among the titles of a high official at Dendereh.

and a long time before - Isis and IIathor were

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A Late Ptolemaic Statue of Hathor frorn Mer Templeat Dendereh of }Iorus or IIarpokrates,Isis-13:athor of Denderehwas worshipped as the motherof Eorus of Edfu. She was also considered the wife of Osiris tho, however, at Dendereh only had a lessershrine and must have playedthe role of a prince-consort. Combined with Isis in this first priestly title we {;nd "the gods and goddessespresidingover the birth-chamber,n' i. e. over the annex of the Dendereh temple in which the birth of Horus was celebrated. In the secondplace we find the title ' priest of Osiris, the great god who is worshipped at Dendereh.' It is followedby vpriest of Hathor, the uraeus-serpent of Re ' and four more forms of Isis-Hathor,which all are known as epithets of the goddessof Dendereh,the first of which ('the one with the mny.t') however,is here distinctly connected with Edfu. Besides,our officialis called (fourth priest,' and from the parallel passagein the inscriptionof Soras we learnthat; of Hathor of Dendereh' has to be supplied. To this closer circle of deities of Denderehalso belongs Harsomtusa who was worshipped as a son of :ESathor (his special sanctuaryof hst was situated in the immediatevicinity) and the 'sanctuaries of the sull-gods( ?) in Dendereh ' which otherwiseare unknownto me. The only place outside of Dendereh,in which we are certain that our official held a priestly office,was Edfu, ca. 170 kilometersto the south, where he was priest of ;IIorus who wields the lance' and wherehe held anotheroflice the meaning of which evadesme. Finally he was priest of one or two gods which,unfortunately, I am unable to identify, and whichhaveno counterparts in the parallelinscriptions.The firstone is perhapsThot who appearsamong the deities worshipped with Hathorin her temple at Dendereh. The sign following is unknownamong Egyptian hieroglyphs, and among the places of Thot worship 63 noIle showsan approsimately similarwriting. The sign in itself might be a variant of that of the god XIin,but about his worshipat Denderehnothing is known. Althoughthis last questionmust be left open, it is obviousthat the officialof the Philadelphia statue, so far as his priestly functions went, was closely connectedonly with the temple of Dendereh. ELis connections with Edfu werevery slight
83

Priest of the beneficentand father-lovinggods. CFourth priest (of iEl:athor of Dendereh). Priest of Thot ( ?) of ( ? and ?) . Priest of the sarletuariesof the 6ullgods(?) in Dendereh. .... (hry-h' ?) and overseer of the houseof the nome of Edfu (wts-hr). Priest of Horus who wields the lance in (the seat of Horus' (Edfu). Scribeof the web-priests of the temple (and 7) of the secondtemple (gap) [NN] son of the commander of the army . . . nAt-(?) p'-sry . . *n* Between the strictly military and the strictly priestlytitles, there are inserteda few epithetsof a more generalkind, which seem to be relatedto the secondratherthan the first category. This i8 obvious in the first case - the " gods and gOddesses" probablycomprisingthe various deities who were worshipped in the temple of Dendereh. As to the immediatelyfollowing words, I feel unable to offer a satisfactoryexplanation. The words "the primeval one," etc. clearly refer to Hathor who in Dendereh was conceived of as creatorof the universe. The following titles, twelve6 of which begin with ' priest of > deservea special commentary. As first and foremost of the deities whose {priest' our official is designatedwe find 'Isiss the great one, the motherof the god, the lady of r) . t-dy61 who is worshipped in Dendereh.' 62 This name, with its epithets, is well known from the walls of her temple as the chief name of the goddess of Denderehwhomwe are accustomed to call by her earliername s ELathor.' In Ptolemaictimes consideredone and the same goddess. The f0wn8 hornson the headof the seatedwomanas determinativeof the name' Isis n give to this identification a graphic expression. Since Isis was the mother
eo Counting { Eathor, the uraeus-serpent of R#'," before which hm-ntr has been omitted by the scribe, it would be 13, compared with 6 ( or 7, counting Earsomtus, before whom the title hm-ntr has been left out) hm-ntr titles in the case of Panas, and 14 (one of which iB given twice) in the case of Sorax. 01For ,.t-dy as a name of the tempIe of Hathor at Dendereh (and of a particular part of this temple ?) see Gauthier, Op. Cit. I 124 f. and Junker, L Z. 43, 123. The original meaning of ,.t-dy seems to be unknown. e2 The same title, with slight variants, iB borne by Panas as well as by Korax.

Cf. P. Boylan, Thots the Eermes of Egypt (London,

And (gap)

daily

every

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indeed and are sufficiently explainedby the close priestsof the templeof Dendereh, as we are accusrelationsbetweenthe temple of IIathor and that tomed to find them on Egyptian temple statues of her son Eorus. If he really was a r^T7Tyos, since the time of the MiddleiEXingdom. his priestlytitles wouldfavorthe assumption that the vows Tsruptrvs, the district of which Den- }gs S ^o S + dereh was the metropolis,> was under his superWhether thesepriestlytitles corresponded XIllViU5%@a7^n8 to any ireportantofficialfunctions in the temple oten&?..t 36g,,, 0D r, it is difficultto say. We lmow that the rpn7yei in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt often took the p jf , i o n 5X4$t1/X/s place of the aIleientnomarchs,who always were high priests of the leading nome deity. The title //2Gap///C 1 [> T 'priest of the great Isis,, the mother of the god,, in ').t-dy, who is worshippedin Dendereh to- ' He says: gether with the gods and goddessesof the birth' O ye great priests of Dendereh, chamber ' may indicate that our ofEcialheld a Ye ';godnsfathers and god's treasurers" leadingpositionin the priestlycollegeof Dendereh. who are in ).t-dy, Toward the erld of these priestly titles which All ye veb-priests who are in their monthly connecttheir bearerwith Egyptiandeities we find ofEce the title ' priest of the berleficent gods and of the Do praise the gOdfor me in the ';great father-lovinNg gods,,'which has servedus abovein house,"when you enter therein, fixing the statue chronologically. Do pronounce my name in the ';house o The real priestly titles were followedby others, the flame," whenyou perform yourofEces the larger part of which have been destroyed at the festival times They begin with ' scribe of the w'b-priests of the Do rememberme in the Inidst of the temple arld ( ?) of the secondtemple' and show ;pr-nw at the time of revealing the perhapsthat our official also had a function i face of the goddess? the administration of the temple, Following this long array of titles, and preceding the word dd.f ' he says,' which introduces If our oflicial addresses the '; great priests the official'saddressto the priests of Dendereh, (Eqn.w;-ntr) of Dendereh," " the god's fathers once 6toodhis name. Most unfortunately,it has and gOd's treasurers within t) . t-dy" and all ';un bbeenalmostentirelyobliterated-not a single sign priests" duringtheir monthlydutiesin the temple, am I able to identify with certainty. It was fol- his intention seems to be to mention the entire lowed by ' son [of],>'and then by the title imy-r priestly personllelin the Hathor temple o Denmst, 'commanderof the army,'which father and dereh. In the folloving optativeshe distinguishes son had in common. WVhether the following sign three differentplaces within the temple at which belongsto the title ('the victoriousarmy?) or he wants to be remembered: the "great house'> begins the propername?I am unable to say. It (r-wr), that is the sanctum sanctorum, the wouldbe temptingto assumethat the namebegar " houseof the flame,) and the " pr-nw " (however with p>-sry. WVhat follows is entirely destroyed. A supplementationto p'-sry-n-k'y might make 66 For sdwty ( )-ntr as a priestly title cf. Wb. 5 B38. our official identical with the zrr,oar7yyos Woras, 66 For this writirlg of ibd cf. Junker, (Iramm., p. 144. who has so many titles in common,bllt the traces 67 Cf. Annales 16 ( pillar ): dm . tn rn.y m b'h ,s ) t wr.t. on our statue do not seem to fit.
vision.64

{ELitod>2=F066

0sTo the determinativd of k'.t I know of no parallel.

2. Addressof the Offiicial to the Priests of Dendereh This enumeration of the titles of our officialiB followed by a poetically worded address to the
e4

The text of Annales 16 (pillar) has instead Ct. This s reveaIing' of the goddess is sho Mariette II, pl. 64a.-After the gap the inscription switches over to the Ieft side of the pillar. 70Read m mn.t n.t r' nb and cf. AnnaZes lf; (piIIar):
e9

Cf. l)aressy, Annales 18, 186; Spiegelberg ]. Z. 57

and Sethe, t7rk. II 67 3.

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The' EXa great unD.cS princes ^ I n D (hzty t sq 11 . w-' 1 *I wr. t w) * andthe

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A Late Ptolemaic Statue of Bathor from Ber Templeat Dendereh priests (hm.w-ntr) in Dendereh,the chief lector priest in the place of inebriation>88 the hry-sstD of the purification of the god (tb.w-ntr)>who has accessto the sacredplace, they said all together: v It is you ( ?), C)pious one [ . . . ] It is [Hathor] the lady of Dendereh, the mistress of all the gods, the eye o Re- there is no other one besideher. The great Isis, the lady of t'.f-dy-the only one, the like of whorndoes not exist, AxldEorus of Edfu, the great god, lord of the
7S Cf. Mariette, IV 17, where a h'ty-' ?n ht and a h'ty-' wr are seen in action behind the priest mentioned in n. 74. Cf. also Annales 17, 90.

this third one may have to be translated) which are knowi as side chapels of the 'great house' n tenclerez. On the other hand, there is a distinctionas to the time in the dependentclauses, which follow the three optatives: praisethe god for me-when you enter; pronounce my namwhen you officiate at the festivals; remember mc at the festival of revealingthe face of the goddess. The arrangement seems to lead up to a climax. Ee wants to be remembered at all times, from the momentat whichthe priests enter the temple to the moment when they see the face of the goddess in her innermostsanctuary. The rhythmicalform of the brief strophewith its 3x 2 half verses is perfectly clear, and it is also clear that these half versesdo not containan identical number of stresses. The loose rhythm reminds us of that of Ooptic religious poetry.72 :Fora restorationof the last gap I have no suggestion to offer.
3. Speech of {he Prtests of DendVereh, addGressed to the 0,17icio1

The inscriptioncomesto an end with a speech of the representatives of the temple of Dendereh, addressedto our official,to which I know of no Egyptian parallel. From it we must hope to get an explanationof the fact that the statue thus inscribedrepresents not a man but a woman.

priest with the title t carrying two shrines in Mariette, IV 17. The title hry-sst) 'bw ntr occurs also at Akhmim: see Ahmed Bey Kamal, op. cit. 22074 (p. 70), 1. 12, and 22095 (p. 85), 1. 6. 76 Cf. qesW nmt.t (m) bw dsr, Wreszinski, op. cit. 105, 1. 2, 3 ,gnv7o and w'b m pr Pth, ibid. p. 109, 1.3 (both of the Ptolemaic period). 76For dmd(.to) m sp see VVb.5, 459 IIb 6. For the writing of dmd see Anncales17, 93. 77 For 'k'-zb " sincere " cf. Junker, A.Z. 43, 110. 78 That the name of Hathor has to be restored is clear from the epithets following. Cf.
i8
Been

74 A

as title of Panas (Cairo 690) and

S<a@@|WoOnIl

18@

j.'t'>1Q

bst.Ss:r
;gt1<t32S,W6

o On

as the ofiicial title of Hathor of Dendereh, ibid., 1. 3. 79Cf. Mariette, III 75a: vn. 80Cf. rbid. 65a, third row: nfr.t twty.t mXt.t.s. 81I assume that the sin stands for the similar one which shows a sistrum in the raised right hand: cf. Junker, i.Z. 43, 112. 82For this late writing of nb '&lord " see Borchardt, Statuen III 696, and cf. Junker, Gramm. 516. 8SRead 'py (or py) spsy bvnty. . . "the noble winged disk in . . . " and cf. Mariette, II 76, and III 64 (third row) ' the noble winged disk in all his sanctuaries." 84 Cf. Annales 17, 93: wn.sn dmd( .w) hr qiS tw. 86 Read hr shry. t . . ., or the like and cf. Wb. 4 220. 86 For jU7 S) k r mn? ' ' 8TFor this wish for a lifetime of 110 years cf. Wreszinski, op. ciZt.p. 144, 1. 3 from bottom. The earliest reference to this round number of years in Egyptian literature is found at the end of the instructions of Ptahhotep: see Erman, Egyptian Lsterature ( London 1927) p. 65. Its occurrence in Gen. 50, 22 has often been noted. 88 For s. t-tboy. t as a name of the temple and to of Dendereh, see Gauthier, op. cit. v 89. Eathor is called bst, ( . t ) s . t tboy . t in Mariette, III 20r, 80i.

Z L81=;782

7vn1veS9 o 83d%Ga<; ti

e, l
>
40

Ain
t z At86to6aft

e
t |

z Cg=tc;;gw><//Go?///> io.o

Cf.Wb.1, 517 f. H. Junker, Roptische Paesse des10. JahrhundeCs I, II, Berlin, 1908-11.
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has to be abandoned.The first signalthoughit resemblesthe sign rwd, and although it dif3ers ***-*-* slightly from the certaindmd sign towardthe end for They rejoice over ( ?) what] thou hast done seemsto be ratherdmdthanrwd. of the inscription, them. . n . k for ( m) sb( . f ) n . k7 Xlaythey cause thy name to remain as remains Besides,a writing of nwsb oSered,'7 is rather unlikely. On hast "what thou the sky and thy house to endureas endure3 the otherhand,the wordsdmd( . w) m spa" united the earth. the speechproper. mayverywell precede They are united,watchingoverthee, in dispelling together," But to begin this with n. k pw " to thee be[evil from theet] Thy son shall remain upon thy seat after thee, longs . . . '>, again meets with grave difficulties. an ingeniousidea of Dr Walter after 110 years, and the son of thy son like- In this emergency l?edernmay providethe solution. N.k may be a wise! "' scribalerrorfor nt. h. Betweenn and k (the space We see the addressof our officialto the priests is unusuallywide!) a t may have been left out of Hathoris followedby a secondand last address, erroneously, and the speech of the Denderehoffithe speakersof which are not identical with the cials may have begun with the words nt.k pur men addressedbefore. They are also priests of 'k<'b " it is yoll, O pious one . . . ", or "yoll are Dendereh,but they have not the same titles. In- a pious one . . . ". At any rate, the follorwing stead of thegreatpriests(hn. w-ntr), the C;fathers words -"It is [IIathor] the lady of Dendereh, and treasurersof the god" and the wtb-priests, the mistressof all the gods, the eye of Re,' are in the temple,we find "the perfectlyclear. whowere unctioning 'great princes (hDty w-' wr.w) and the priests It is very probablc to say the least- that they (hm.w-ntr) inDendereh,"the"chieflectorpriest referto the statueon whichthis speech waswritten, " and the " secretcoun- and we may be near the truth if we fill the lacuna at the place of inebriation ellor of the purificationof the god." They may with somethinglike "who has made this great of the temple. representthe administration gift to the temple." The followingsentencelnenUnfortunately, this speech is interrupted by tions " The greatIsis, lady of ' . t-dy" who alongthree lacunae, the Srst of which renders a clear side of Hathor,is often found in the reliefs of the of its beginningextremelydifficult. Dendereh temple89 and " IIorus of Edfu, the anderstanding The first questionis whetherthe wordsfollowing great god, lord of the sky, ete.", whomwe see de4,d.n "They said" belong to the speechproper picted in the same temple as the companionof or not. Gunn'ssuggestion(by letter) to translate Hathor.90The predicateto this doublesubJectis what they say, united (or: with one accord) in missing, but the words "(which) thou hast done coming to thee, is"- dd(.t).sn dmd(.w) 7n (or made) for them" which follow the second ty(.t) n.k puy and to begin the speechitself by lacuna,suggest that somethinglike " they rejoice with a over" or " they are grateful for " will have to be ' O pious one . . . she is Eathor '>meetst double difflculty. One would expect that dd.sn restored. has to be taken in the same way as before, i. e. Thus it seemsto me hardlypossibleto avoidthe "what conclusionthat our statue representsthe goddess (they said,) sdnw.f-form, not relative-form they said." Besides, it seems to me much less Eathor of Denderehherself, and that the test likely that, in a statement like this, the oflicial incisedon her backpillaroncementioned the name would have been directly addressed (in coming of the manwho had the statuecarvedfor the main to thee) insteadof referredto in the third person. temple of his district and who dedicatedit, perOn the other handsto begin the speechwith dmd haps to replacean older image which had fallen and to translate('A uniting for you it is, O pious into decay. IIe entrustedan excellentartist with one (of the gods of Dendereh,or the like)"- -- the work and he decidedthat the goddessshould to fit appearin the moderngarmentof his timeX dmd m sp n. k pw 'k-b . . . , does not see-m with the following " [gEhr] etc. pw " which can the unique speechof Under these assumptions, etc." My first attempt only mean "it is iEIathor, as given in the Bulletin of at an interpretation, 89 Mariette I pls. 34, 42, 50, 57, 68, 69 etc. September1940, "firm is what thou hast oSered, 90 Mariette I pls. 24, 52, 73, 77; II 14, 52, 67, 74; thou pious one" - rwd msb( . t ) . n . k pw 'k'-b III 40, 41. sky, the noble winged disk presiding in

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A late PtolernaicStatu,eof Ilathor frornBer Ternpleat Dendereh to the gods that they may foreverprotectthe pray donorand his family, that they may watch over and that, after the himagainst all evil influences, durationof 110 years of life, he be folclassical in lowed his officeby his descendants.

of Dendereh,and their profuse therepresentatives to the official,would be best esaddressed wishes plainedas the expression,in a typical Egyptian way,of their gratitude for the dedicationof the statue. The third part of the speech, containing thesewords,presentsno difficulties.The speakers

THE VOCATIVE IN IIITTITE H. G. GTJTERBOCE

ANKARA

no special vocativeform has been grammar. In the grammars Hittite in known l and Friedrich2no menpublishedby Delaporte to Forrer,3 tion of the vocativeis made. According and H. Pedersen,5the nominative 4 Sturtevant 6 even warned functionsalso as vocative. Sommer his readersnot to regard the plain stem forms found as "evidencefor an vrhichare occasionally vocativewithoutending." It is here indoeuropean to explaincertainforms with and withproposed out ending as vocativeforms, and the instances must thereforebe examinedin detail.
UNTIL NOW,

1. Tzz STEBI FOR}I USB AS VOCATIVE' The most obviousexamplesof the stem form are found in the Sumarbi myths pubsed as lToc. lished by Otten in SUB XXXIII ( 1943) . It should be noted that these tests appearedmuch later than the studiesmentionedabove. Had they been knownearlier,even Sommerwouldprobably not have denied the existenceof the voc. so catethat in gorically. First it must be emphasized
1 L. Delaporte, Sllements da la Grammaire Eittite (Paris, 1929) . 2 J. Friedrich, Hethitisches Elementarbuch, I. Teil: Kurzgefasste Grammatik ( Indogermanische Bibliothek, Heidelberg, 1940) . Mitteilungen der Altorientalischen 3 E. Forrer, in: Gesellschaft, IV ( 1928-29), p. 35. 4 E. H. Sturtevant, A Comparative Grammar of the IIittite Language (Philadelphia, 1933), p. 166, 186. B H. Pedersen, Hittitisch und die anderen indoeuropaischen Sprachen (Kgl. Danske VidenskabernesSelskab, K0benhavn, 1938), p. 21, 15. Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 6 F. Sommer, in: (OLZ), 38 ( 1935), 28 f.; F. Sommerund A. iFalkenstein, Die hethitisch-akkadische Bilingue . . . ( Bil. ) ( Bayerische Akadernie,Munchen, 1938), p. 147, n. 2.

generalthe namesof gods in the Eumarbimythological tests are written with case endingsexcept when they are combinedwith Akkadianelements etc.). Since our texts are writtenvery (like A-7VA carefully,the use of the stem form in someplaces cannotbe explainedas accidental. The following 7 examplesshowthe stem form used in address: XXXIII 102 II 4f. (Ullikummiepic, 1Sttablet, ANA DlrnpaEur7 fragment c): nK arunas kernuuddor Dlqnpaluri EGIR-paqnemtsvktzzi " The Sea spake again to Impaluri: isvtamas ' O Impaluri! Hear these my words! "' SXXIII 106 III 30 f. (Ullikummi, 3rd tbl.): DA.A-as ANA DUpelluri[EGIR-parnemi]skfuan dais UL-ua sakti DUpelluri rnerni,annawattaUL kiskt udas " Ea spake again to Upelluri: ' Knowst thou not, O Upellrui? And did no one bring thee word? "' udda[r SII 6S, 17 f. (test 4 a): DKurnarbtsV dais] merniskfucln ANA L]tSUS:[E:AL-SU Eumarbi " ] . . . [A LtSUKKAT-I DMxktsanu spakethe wordsto his vezir: ' O Mukisanu, ! . . . "' my ve%ir I 3 fE. (test 4 b): salli[s arunas 109 SXXIII udd]ar ANA DKumarbtEGIR-pa rnerni[s. . . ]-as clssmzarnemias DXU ktuan dawsV tas] " The great DINGIR. MES[-as clf qnarbi to :Sumarbi: words the again Sea spake Father of the ' [. . .] . . . word, O }<umarbi, ! "' GEods
XQuotations given after the cuneiform editions (roman figures refer to KUB = Keilschrifturkunden aus Boghazkei) and after my fourthcoming translation (German edition to appear as Nr, 16 of " Istanbuler Schriften," Turkish edition in the publications of the Turk Tarih Kurumu-Turkish Eistorical Society).