Hierpglyphical Ffaf/ments. 311 



ffom Sacchara, all of them about thp time of the last Cleo- 

 patra : to identify the Enchorial name of Ptolemy Piqnysus, 

 and to make out a passage relating to a donation of much 



GOLD AND SILVER AND GEMS TQ THE SANCTUARY OF THE GREAT 



^OD AT Memphis. The different forms of the characters em- 

 ployed by the writers, in the same words, constitute also a 

 valuable addition to the means of deciphering any new inscrip- 

 tions of a similar nature, awl I have already incorporated 

 paany of them with my little Enchorial Dictionary. 



The 48th and 49th plates of the Hieroglyphics, already pub- 

 lished, contain two tablets, apparently funerary, but without 

 any dates of the reigns : the ages of the persons seem to be 

 expressed in th^ hieroglyphical lines. In the 49th we find 

 the name Berenice twice in the Enchorial letters, and once 

 in hieroglyphics; followed here by iVrsinoe, possibly as her 

 mother. 



This tablet, coarse as it is, abundantly shows that Hora- 

 pollo and Champollion are both correct, independently, as it 

 seems, of each other, in considering the rings, or cartouches, 

 as chiefly confined to the names of royal personages ; and that 

 I inferred the contrary somewhat too hastily, from observing 

 that the imitations of those rings were attached in the En- 

 chorial inscription of Rosetta, to several names not royal, and 

 from having found such rings in other hieroglyphical inscrip- 

 tions, without the usual epithets of kings. I had, indeed, 

 remarked, that a '^ mysterious" name was sometimes observ- 

 able in the manuscripts without a ring, and I had pointed out 

 the same group as a name in Lord Mountnorris's manuscript, 

 which Mr. Champollion considers as the true name : but I 

 am perfectly ready to admit that Mr. Champollion has mate- 

 rially improved on this hint, as he has on many others. 



The same line of hieroglyphics, however, contributes to add 

 to my reluctance in admitting Mr. Champollion's reading of 

 P.T.H ; a group which I considered as very probably repre^ 

 senting these letters long before the date of his publications ; 

 though I had only fully identified the two first characters ; 

 it seems to me to agree better with PETEH than with 

 PHTAH ; and I am inclined to think it was the beginning of 

 tjbe names Petosiris, Peteharpocrates, and other similiar words. 



