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Bulletin de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale 103
2003 IFAO
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A New Suggestion on the Sign Heading the Witness List in Demotic Legal Texts.

This article offers a solution to the problem of reading, understanding and meaning of the demotic sign heading the witness lists in demotic legal documents. The author reaches the conclusion that this was certainly a linguistic sign and had hieroglyphic origin or and phonetic value sȝw and had with all certainly a meaning "protection", "guard", "escort", "watch", "keep hold", "maintain".