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(4,11) hr wb3 hd sw ‘As for the butler, wear him out(??).’3” ‘As for the butler, he is ruined.’3% ‘And the butler is lacking.” ‘As for the butler, he no longer exists, ...’*° ‘Now, the attendant, his is destroyed.’ Gardiner assumes that the term /d sw is in the imperative form, just as the verbs are in the surrounding sentences.” Faulkner, however, suggests that it is better to use the word hd in the perfective passive participle form functioning as an adjectival predicate, literally ‘one ruined is he’, which would refer to a turbulent social situation when there was no opportunity to get work for ‘butlers’.*® The spelling of the word wb3 1 Ja& iR} with the drill and the phonetic complement ‘b’ leaves no doubt about the correct reading. The second occurrence sheds some light on the relative position of the two occupations. The two words appear in a passage where the author compares different occupations, social ranks, and tenure relations in an interchanged role: (8,2) m3=tn wdpw.w (8,3) hpr m nb.w wb3.w "Behold, ...... have become the masters of butlers. ‘Behold, serving-men have become masters of butlers, ...’* ‘See, cooks have become masters of butlers, ...’"° ‘Behold, cupbearers have become the masters of butlers, ...’#” ‘Look, lers have become owners of attendants; ...’° According to this sentence, wb3 was ranked slightly higher than wdpw in the occupational hierarchy, in spite of that, this text does not reveal any more detailed information about the tasks of the two occupations. 307 Gardiner, 1990”, 38. 38 Faulkner, 1965, 55. 39 Lichtheim, 1975, 153. 79 Simpson, 2003, 195. 3" Enmarch, 2008, 99. 32 Gardiner, 1990’, 40. 33 Faulkner, 1964, 27. 34 Gardiner, 1990”, 61. 35 Faulkner, 1965, 58. 36 Lichtheim, 1975, 157. *7 Simpson, 20037, 200. 35 Enmarch, 2008, 139.
