years before had saved the relic from destruction and made the black-letter entry on the sherd in 1445, hurried off to Oxford to see if perchance it might avail to dissolve the secret of the mysterious inscription. Nor was he disappointed, for the learned Edmundus was equal to the task. Indeed his rendering is so excellent an example of mediæval learning and latinity that, even at the risk of sating the learned reader with too many antiquities, I have made up my mind to give it in fac-simile, together with an expanded version for the benefit of those who find the contractions troublesome. The translation has several peculiarities on which this is not the place to dwell, but I would in passing call the attention of scholars to the passage ‘duxerunt autem nos ad reginam advenaslasaniscoronantium,’ which strikes me as a delightful rendering of the original, ‘ἤγαγον δὲ ὡς βασίλειαν τὴν τῶν ξένους χύτραις στεφανούντων.’
Mediæval Black-Letter Latin Translation of the Uncial Inscription on the Sherd of Amenartas.
Amenartas e gen. reg. Egyptii vxor Callicratis ſacerdot̃ Iſidis quā dei ſovēt demonia attēdv̄t filiol' ſvo Tiſiſtheni iā moribūda ita mādat: Effugi quōdā ex Egypto regnāte Nectanebo cū patre tvo, p̃pter mei amorē pejerato. Fvgiētes autē v'ſus Notū trans mare et xxiiij mēſes p'r litora Libye v'ſus Oriētē errant̃ vbi eſt petra quedā m̃gna ſcvlpta inſtar Ethiop̃ capit̃, deinde dies iiij ab oſt̃ flum̃ m̃gni eiecti p'tim ſubmerſi ſumus p'tim morbo mortui ſum̃: in fine autē a fer̃ hōībs portabamur p̃r palvd̃ et vada. vbi aviū m'titvdo celū obūbrat dies x. donec advenim̃ ad cavū quēdā montē, ubi olim m̃gna vrbs erat, cauerne quoq̃ im̄ēſe: dvxerūt autē nos ad reginā Aduenaſlaſaniſcoronātiū que magic̃ vtebat̃r et peritia omniū rer̃ et ſaltē pvlcrit̃ et vigore īlēeſci-
