Miscellaneous works of the late Thomas Young, M.D., F.R.S., &c., and one of the eight foreign Associates of the National Institute of France.

  • Thomas Young
Date:
1855
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Miscellaneous works of the late Thomas Young, M.D., F.R.S., &c., and one of the eight foreign Associates of the National Institute of France. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    L. 1. [On the fourth day of the Grecian month Xanthicus,] and the eighteenth of the Egyptian month Mechir, of the young king, who received the kingdom from his father, lord of the dia- dems, great in glory, who has established Egypt, triumphant over all the impious who fight against him, greatly loving the gods, who has corrected the life of men, lord of the festival of thirty years, like Vulcan the mighty, king like the sun, L. 2. [the mighty king of the upper] and lower countries, the son of the parent loving gods, approved by Vulcan, to whom the Sun has given the victory, the living image of Jove, the son of the Sun, Ptolemy the eternal, beloved by Vulcan, the god illustrious, munificent, (the son of) Ptolemy and Arsi- noe the parent loving gods: the priest of Alexander, and the saviour gods, and the L. 3. [brother gods, and the gods] beneficent, and the parent loving gods, and the king Ptolemy, the god illustrious, munifi- cent, being Actus (the son of) Aetus : Pyrrha the daughter of Philinus bearing the emblems of victory of Berenice the benefi- cent ; Areia, the daughter of Diogenes, being the bearer L. 4. [of baskets of Arsi]noe the brother loving; Irene, the daughter of Ptolemy, being priestess of Arsinoe the parent loving ; in the ninth year; a decree. The high priests and the prophets, and the priests of the recesses for attiring,the gods, the wing-bearers, the scribes, and the other priests from the temples of Egypt, L. 5. [meeting the king at] the solemn feast of the assump- tion of the power of king Ptolemy the eternal, beloved by Vul- can, the god illustrious, munificent, from his father; being united in the temple of Memphis, said at that hour. [The reading proposed for these lines will stand nearly thus in the Coptic character.]
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