Hieroglyphical Fragments, 407 



with the pen, since there are numberless tablets so written, 

 in which the figures and the corresponding hieroglyphics 

 stand in both directions: but the words were used with 

 reference to writing only, without pictorial figures. 



The same word is repeated at the foot of the tablet : and 

 it appears in the first line of the Hieroglyphics nearly as 

 exhibited in the Article Egypt, except that a t is improperly 

 inserted for an i. In the second line we have arsne. The 

 T seems here also out of place : but as a generic terminatioh 

 it seems not to be always phonetic. The suppliant has not 

 the usual dress of a female, though without a beard. 



iv. Plate 51. Line 1. R . . O. This word is Cleopatra, 

 though much defaced and not quite correctly copied : the 

 upright line for R is however right. The name is repeated at 

 Es, but the R is here inclined as usual. At Z s we have 

 Ptolemy, and at Xs..t, though partly effaced. It is fol- 

 lowed by the word mrnamed. 



v. Tablets from Sachara, yet unpublished. 

 In the Egyptian room at the British Museum there are a 

 number of chalk tablets, from the mummy pits at Sachara, 

 Bent expressly by Mr. Salt, for assisting in the comparison of 

 the sacred characters with the Enchorial. Some of them will 

 probably appear in the Collection of Hieroglyphics, contain- 

 ing the articles already mentioned. Among the most re- 

 markable of these are two which appear to be companions, 

 the one having 7 stars in the margin at the summit, the 

 other 19. The Enchorial dates appear to be 6 and 19 re- 

 spectively : showing clearly that these stars must have been 

 meant for years. The names of Cleopatra and Autocra- 

 TOR Cesrs occur repeatedly in both: affording a striking 

 confirmation of Champollion's hieroglyphical expression of 

 these same epithets. They have not before been recognised 

 in the Enchorial form. Hier. 70 . . 74. 



There is another large tablet of Enchorial characters, 

 bearing the name of Ptolemy surnamed Ci*;sAR, and not 

 Neocaesar, as Champollion has read the surname in another 

 form. Hier. 75, 76. 



On a broken and somewhat imperfect tablet of chalk, 

 brought also from Sachara, are two Royal names, which 



