Hall of Columns, where, no doubt, it was set up originally, and its inscription was cut in demotic, because, at that period, that form of writing was better understood than hieroglyphics. In the Roman Period hieroglyphic inscriptions were sometimes accompanied by renderings into Greek and Latin, _e.g._, No. 257, Third Egyptian Room, Wall-case No. 109. This is a portion of a statue of a priest bearing a shrine of Osiris. On the back of the plinth is an inscription in hieroglyphics containing an address to Osiris by a priest of the “fourth order,” and on one side of the plinth are cut in Latin and Greek “priest bearing Osiris.” =Coptic= is written with the letters of the Greek alphabet, and seven signs (ϣ, ϥ, ϧ, ϩ, ϫ, ϭ, ϯ), derived from demotic characters, the phonetic values of which could not be expressed by Greek letters. A fine collection of sepulchral tablets inscribed in Coptic is exhibited in the Southern Egyptian Gallery (Bay 32), and a long and most instructive series of drafts of documents on potsherds and slices of limestone will be found in Table-case M in the Fourth Egyptian Room. In the copy of the =Lord’s Prayer= (St. Matthew vi, 9) here appended the reader will find all the signs which are peculiar to Coptic save one (ϭ). The dialect is that of Lower Egypt. The two words marked by asterisks are Greek, not Egyptian. ⲡⲉⲛⲓⲱⲧ ⲉⲧϧⲉⲛ ⲛⲓⲫⲏⲟⲩⲓ ⲙⲁⲣⲉϥⲧⲟⲩⲃⲟ ⲛ̅ϫⲉⲡⲉⲕⲣⲁⲛ. _Peniôt_ _etkhen_ _niphêoui_ _mareftoubo_ _entche pekran._ Our Father who art in the heavens, may be hallowed thy name. ⲙⲁⲣⲉⲥⲓ ⲛ̀ϫⲉⲧⲉⲕⲙⲉⲧⲟⲩⲣⲟ. ⲡⲉⲧⲉϩⲛⲁⲕ ⲙⲁⲣⲉϥϣⲱⲡⲓ ⲙⲫⲣⲏϯ _Maresi_ _entche tekmetouro._ _Peteḥnak_ _marefshôpi_ _emphrêti_ May come thy kingdom. Thy will let it be as ϧⲉⲛ ⲧⲫⲉ ⲛⲉⲙ ϩⲓϫⲉⲛ ⲡⲓⲕⲁϩⲓ. ⲡⲉⲛⲱⲓⲕ ⲛ̅ⲧⲉ _khen_ _tphe_ _nem_ _ḥitchen_ _pikaḥi._ _Penôik_ _ente_ in the heaven so upon the earth. Our bread of ⲣⲁⲥϯ ⲙⲏⲓϥ ⲛⲁⲛ ⲙ̅ⲫⲟⲟⲩ. ⲟⲩⲟϩ ⲭⲁ ⲛⲉⲧⲉⲣⲟⲛ _rasti_ _mêif_ _nan_ _emphoou._ _Ouoḥ_ _kha_ _neteron_ to-morrow give it to us to-day. And forgive our debts ⲛⲁⲛ ⲉⲃⲟⲗ ⲙ̅ⲫⲣⲏϯ ϩⲱⲛ ⲛ̀ⲧⲉⲛⲭⲱ ⲉⲃⲟⲗ ⲛ̅ⲛⲏ ⲉⲧⲉⲟⲩⲟⲛ _nan_ _ebol_ _emphrêti_ _ḥôn_ _entenkhô ebol ennê_ _eteouon_ to us as we also forgive those who are ⲛ̀ⲧⲁⲛ ⲉⲣⲱⲟⲩ. ⲟⲩⲟϩ ⲙ̅ⲡⲉⲣⲉⲛⲧⲉⲛ ⲉϧⲟⲩⲛ ⲉ ⲡⲓⲣⲁⲥⲙⲟⲥ.* ⲁⲗⲗⲁ* _entan erôou._ _ouoḥ_ _emperenten_ _ekhoun_ _e_ _pirasmos,_ _alla_ our debtors. And bring us not into temptation; but ⲛⲁϩⲙⲉⲛ ⲉⲃⲟⲗϩⲁ ⲡⲓⲡⲉⲧϩⲱⲟⲩ. _naḥmen_ _ebolḥa_ _pipetḥôou._ deliver us from that which is evil. [Illustration: Coptic inscription on a slice of limestone. [No. 10, Table-case M, Third Egyptian Room.]]