Abbreviations
Documents are referred to by their inventory number because I believe this to be the clearest way to identify them. This is preferred over the numbering assigned to them in the various publications in which they were (re)edited.1 Journal abbreviations are those listed in Mathieu’s IFAO abbreviations.2 The following abbreviations are also used:
| CDD |
Chicago Demotic Dictionary: |
| Dem. |
Demotic |
| Glossar |
Demotisches Glossar (Erichsen 1954) |
| Gr. |
Greek |
| LÄ |
Lexikon der Ägyptologie |
| LRL |
Late Ramesside Letter |
| n. |
note |
| n.d. |
no date |
| O. |
Ostracon |
| P. |
Papyrus |
| PM |
Porter and Moss |
| PP |
Prosopographia Ptolemaica |
| r. |
recto |
| Table A |
Tables in Appendix 3 |
| v. |
verso |
| W. |
Witness |
| Wb |
Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache |
The following editorial conventions are used in the presentation of textual sources:
| [ ] |
lost in lacuna |
| [?] |
uncertain |
| ⟦ ⟧ |
deleted by the scribe |
| (…) |
passage omitted in translation |
| ` ´ |
inserted above line by the scribe |
| ˹ ˺ |
uncertain reading |
| ˹?˺ |
uncertain |
| { } |
wrongly repeated by the scribe |
| ⟨ ⟩ |
wrongly omitted by the scribe |