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rature not wholly barren, without obtaining some few fruits of his 

 labour, which had escaped the researches of others ; but I have 

 looked in vain for any one addition to what even Mr. Akerblad 

 had made out, more than thirty years ago, that can justify the 

 pomp and ceremony with which Professor Seyffarth's Prodromus 

 is issued into the world. 



The most satisfactory evidence on this subject is that of the 

 papyrus of Casati, which I discovered to be the original of Mr. 

 Grey's Greek antigraph, a little after I had printed, and distributed 

 among a few friends, my attempt to translate some parts of the 

 original, which appeared in the Philosophical Journal for January, 

 1 823. You will find in it Nebonenc/tws as a proper name, twice 

 over ; Apollonius, Antimachus, and Antigenes : the three last 

 having been read nearly in the same manner by Champollion. 

 There is also a phrase, et liberis ejus, hominibus ejus, frequently 

 repeated. 



Of these, Professor Spohn has made out the letters nebonen, 

 and etplonies, without marking them as proper names ; and he has 

 put down Antimaus and Antigenes as a part of his translation : 

 but he has not attempted any explanation of the phrase, which is 

 repeatedly rendered in the antigraph, xoiih his children and all his 

 family, nor has he rightly translated a single word besides, after 

 the preamble, which is not in the Greek. 



With respect to his mode of reading the words, by an alphabet, 

 which, the newspapers tell us, is like the Armenian, this manu- 

 script affords an undeniable criterion of its accuracy, as it con- 

 sists almost entirely of proper names, originally Egyptian, not 

 one of which has been read by Professor Spohn in any way at all 

 approaching to the truth. For example, instead of Maesis Mir- 

 sios, he gives us Eumolme Nnelleme ; for Peteutemis Arsiesios, 

 Ischre pepo eepo nenee ; and for Petearpocrates Hori, Nearsch- 

 neoe hne. If his Egyptian dedication to the King of Saxony is 

 equally happy with these specimens, it may happen to pass current 

 in the other world for an address to Sesostris or to Osiris himself, 

 or for a confession of faith in all the gods and goddesses of Ombos 

 and of Tentyra; and thus to have procured him admission into the 

 blessed communion of those deified Egyptian kings, who are occa- 

 sionally represented, according to Mr. Bankes's drawings, as offer- 

 ing sacrifices to themselves. 



London, 22 Sept. 1825. * * * 



