Hierocjlyphical Fragments, Sl9 



Another of Mr. Wilkinson's very valuable inscriptions, from 

 a temple at Kous, must be allowed to give evidence much 

 more favourable to Mr. Champollion, as far as it regards the 

 signification o( the plough, which seems to enter into the com- 

 position of Fhilometor, as applied to Cleopatra and ♦* Ptolemy 

 Alexander," who are called Philometores Soteres, both here 

 and in Anastasy's Greek Manuscript. The name of Alexander" 

 had never occurred to the author of the article Egypt, but he 

 had evidently a foresight in what way it would make its ap- 

 pearance when he observed, N. 55, ** it will appear hereafter, 

 that a knowledge of the enchorial forms may possibly contri- 

 bute very materially, at some future time, to assist us in deter- 

 mining it:" and he immediately proceeds to the subject of 



PHONETIC HIEROGLYPHICS. d^-S ';t r 



The plough seems to be exchanged on the Minervean obelisk 

 for the dentated quadrant and chain, which may hence have 

 been synonymous with the dentated parallelogram or comb : 

 both perhaps having represented instruments which bore the 

 same name, and served the same purposes, though of different 

 forms : they may, for instance, have been rakes or harrows, 

 and may hence have borne some analogy to the plough or hoe. 

 Whether they had names beginning* with M, may still be 

 questionable. 



Mr. Champollion has endeavoured to explain the absence of 

 the names of our queens from the tablet of Abydus, by saying 

 that it must be considered as a tablet '^ purely genealogical^ 

 First Letter to the D. de B. p. 89. A reader is naturally dis- 

 posed to a;cquiesce in this explanation, since Mr. Champollion, 

 who has carefully examined it, asserts it on his own credit ; 

 especially as the assertion appears to be supported by a long 

 and minute discussion. Unhappily, however, it is only ne- 

 cessary to compare his brother's chronology in P. 107, with his 

 own Plates II. and III. fig. 5, from which it appears that 

 Amenses, who reigned more than 20 years, was the mother of 

 Thuthmosis the second, whose name is in the tablet, while his 

 mother's is omitted. It is true that, with his usual ingenuity, 

 Mr. Champollion seems aflerwards to change his ground in 

 the same page : for he says, that one only of two brothers 

 Qr sisters was inserted, in order to keep the number of the 



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