ptian legal terms. In the British Museum are two documents in
hieratic that were drawn up in connection with prosecutions which the
Government of Egypt undertook of certain thieves who had broken into
some of the royal tombs at Thebes and robbed them, and of certain other
thieves who had robbed the royal treasury and made away with a large
amount of silver (Nos. 10,221, 10,052, 10,053, and 10,054). Equally
interesting is the roll that describes the prosecution of certain highly
placed officials and relations of Rameses III who had conspired against
him and wanted to kill him. Several of the conspirators were compelled
to commit suicide. The text is written in hieratic on papyrus, and is
preserved in the Royal Museum, Leyden.

XII. HISTORICAL ROMANCES.--Examples of these are the narrative of the
capture of the town of Joppa in Palestine by an officer of Thothmes III,
and the history of the dispute that broke out between Seqenenra, King of
Upper Egypt, and Aapepi, King of Avaris in the Delta. These are written
in hieratic and are preserved in the British Museum, in Harris Papyrus
500, and Sallier No. 1 (10,185).

XIII. MATHEMATICS.--The chief source of our knowledge of the Mathematics
of the Egyptians is the Rhind Papyrus in the British Museum (No.
10,057), which was written before 1700 B.C., probably during the reign
of one of the Hyksos kings. The papyrus contains a number of simple
arithmetical examples and several geometrical problems. The workings
out of these prove that the Egyptian spared himself no trouble in making
his calculations, and that he worked out both his arithmetical examples
and problems in the most cumbrous and laborious way possible. He never
studied mathematics in order to make progress in his knowledge of the
science, but simply for purely practical everyday work; as long as his
knowledge enabled him to obtain results which he knew from experience
were substantially correct he was content.

EDITIONS OF EGYPTIAN TEXTS,
TRANSLATIONS, &c.

AMELINEAU, E.--Morale Egyptien. Paris, 1892. 8vo.

BERGMANN, E.--Das Buch vom Durchwandeln der Ewigkeit. Vienna, 1877.

BIRCH, S.--Egyptian Texts from the Coffin of Amamu. London, 1886.
Egyptian Hieratic Papyrus of Rameses III. London, 1876.

BREASTED, J.H.--Ancient Records--Egypt. Chicago, 1906.

BRUGSCH, H.--Sieben Jahre der Hungersnoth. Leipzig, 1891.
Inscriptio Rosettana. Berlin, 1851.
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