350 Fragments on Egyptian Literature, 



years, the same name of Accho is at this day given to a sea- 

 port in Palestine, -which it bore in the time of the Judges of 

 Israel (Judges i. 31) ; while that of Ptolemais, imposed by its 

 Egyptian lord, has perished, like the edifices which he erected 

 in it. Burckhardt found many towns and villages beyond the 

 Jordan retaining the names by which they were known to 

 Moses. And as for some of the names of Nubian temples, we 

 have demonstrative evidence that they are not Arabic. Tafa 

 and Korti are the very names, the terminations being slightly 

 changed, by which the same places were known to the Romans ; 

 and, as these names are certainly not of Roman origin, it is 

 probable that they, at least, are Egyptian ; and '\Hhey be so, 

 we need not wonder at others being so too. The Arabs may 

 have altered names, as they did that of Syene, which, by pre^ 

 fixing their article, and rejecting the last vowel, (if this, indeed, 

 were a part of the Egyptian name, and not a Greek termination 

 merely,) they made •' As-souan ;" but I think it likely that it 

 was not their general practice to substitute new ones for 

 the old. 



VI. Hieroglyphical Tablet from Saccara, In the 77th and 

 78th plates of the Collection of Hieroglyphics, edited by the 

 lamented Dr. Young, we have a copy of the inscription on a 

 broken tablet of chalk. It contains two female names, inclosed 

 in ovals of royalty ; each of them being twice written, horizon- 

 tally and vertically. The two names were read by the learned 

 editor, " arsne or Arsinoe, and philpatra for Philopator," 

 He supposed them to be the name and surname of " the 

 queen, whose priestess is mentioned in the inscription of Ro- 

 setta," {Quart, Jour., N. S., I., 408.) An examination of the 

 hieroglyphical context has convinced me, that in drawing this 

 inference he was too hasty. I find that the names are not a 

 name and surname of the same female, but the names of two 

 distinct females ; and I read them, Arsinoe and Philotera. The 

 latter is mentioned by Strabo, as a daughter of Ptolemy Soter ; 

 and the Arsinoe of this inscription is her sister, the "Arsinoe 

 Philadelphe," whose basket-bearer is mentioned in the Rosetta 

 inscription. This is quite evident from the titles given to the 

 two princesses in this tablet. Philotera (there is certainly no 

 P in the middle of the hieroglyphical name) is called ** the 



