The Decrees of Memphis and Canopus, Volume 2

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K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1904
 

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Page 144 - In the reign of the young prince, who received the kingdom from his father, Lord of Kings, highly glorious, who settled the affairs of Egypt, and respectful of the Gods, pious, successful over his enemies, restorer of the life of man, lord of...
Page 153 - ... contribution to the voyage, and of the money due to government for furnishing the cotton cloths in the temples, he forgave two parts ; and all other things that were neglected in former times he resettled in their proper order, providing that the accustomed offerings should be decently contributed to the Gods. He has also distributed justice to all, as Hermes the Great and Great. He has ordained also that those who went out from among the soldiers, and from others, whose minds were set upon the...
Page 29 - Busirite nome,2 which had been taken and fortified against a siege with a lavish magazine of weapons and all other supplies, seeing that the disloyalty was now of long standing among the impious men gathered into it, who had done great harm to the temples and all the dwellers in Egypt, and encamping against them, he surrounded it with mounds and trenches and remarkable fortifications ; but when the Nile made a great rise in the 8th year (of his reign), and was wont to inundate the plains, he prevented...
Page 146 - ... his father's time, and ordered them (16) to remain in statu quo ; and that out of what belonged to the priests they should contribute !no more to the revenue than they were directed to do until the first year of his father ; and also freed those of the (17) sacred orders from the yearly voyage to Alexandria, and ordained exemption to them from contribution to the voyage, and of the money due to the government for furnishing the (18) cotton cloths in the temples, he forgave two parts ; and all...
Page 100 - Aetes, being Priest of Alexander and of the gods Soteres and of the gods Adelphoi, and of the gods Euergetai, and of the gods Philopatores, and of the god Epiphanes, Eucharistes, Pyrrha, daughter of Philinos, being the Athlophoros...
Page 146 - Arsinoe, gods philopatores, has b«en in many things kind both to the temples and all m them, and to all placed under his government, a God descended from a God and Goddess, as Orus the son of Isis and Osiris, assisting his father Osiris, well disposed towards [the worship of] the Gods, has brought to the temples supplies of money and corn, supported many expences in order to render the climate of Egypt wholesome, and established the sacred rites, and to his utmost power has done good, and of the...
Page 151 - The high priests and prophets, and those who go into the sanctuary for the clothing of the gods, and feather-bearers and sacred scribes, and all the other priests, who from the temples of the country had assembled at Memphis, before the King, at the festival of the reception of the crown, of Ptolemy, ever living, beloved of...
Page 152 - ... a God and Goddess, as Orus, the son of Isis and Osiris, assisting his father Osiris, well disposed towards [the worship of] the Gods, has brought to the temples, supplies of money and corn, supported many expences in order to render the climate of Egypt wholesome, and established the sacred rites, and to his utmost power has done good, and of the existing reversions and tributes collected in Egypt has totally remitted some and lightened others, so that both the people, and all other persons,...
Page 149 - ... and perform other rites appointed, according as it is .done to other Gods [in feasts and festivities, and that there be erected to king Ptolemy, God, illustrious, gracious, sprung from king Ptolemy and queen Arsinoe, Gods philopatores, an image and a shrine of gold in every one of the temples, and to be placed in the sanctuaries among the other shrines, and in the great festivals on which processions are made of the shrines, [the shrine] of this God, illustrious, benevolent...
Page 147 - ... and Orus, son of Isis and Osiris, overcame those who in the same places had formerly revolted, so all those who led others to revolt from his own father, and made desert the country and violated the temples, when he came up to Memphis, to assist his father, and his own kingdom, he punished properly, at which time he came to observe the proper ordinances suitable to his assuming the kingdom; but forgave what was due to the royal treasury from the temples up to the eighth year for corn and money,...

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