408 HieroglypMcal Fragments^ 



appear to be ARSNE, or Arsinoe, and PHILPATRA, for 

 Philopator ; the queen, whose priestess is mentioned in the 

 inscription of Rosetta. There is a coarse though small 

 Enchorial inscription, with three nearly consecutive names of 

 Ptolemy, and with the word SCHR or SOCHAR, pro- 

 bably the Socharis Paamyles of Cratinus in Hesychius, as 

 ChampoUion reads it, calling it an epithet of Phthah. The 

 characters are here rather Hieratic than Enchorial ; and it 

 becomes not at all improbable, comparing this inscription 

 with some others, that the name of Saccara is derived from 

 the deity supposed to preside there, and that the name 

 should be written Sachara, or Sacchara. In the portfolio 

 of Mr. Salt's Papyrus there is one, in a sort of Hieratic cha- 

 racter, with some pictorial repetitions, which has the word 

 C AND ACE on the back in Greek characters. 



vi. Alphabet of the Nail headed Characters^ 

 The recovery of the lost literature of Egypt appears to be 

 of so much the more importance, as it has opened a prospect 

 of affording a key to the characters of the ancient Persians. 

 Our hopes of success in the research must, however, in some 

 degree be depressed, when we find that the key has already 

 been for some time in existence, and has not served to pro- 

 cure us access to anything very interesting, at least while in 

 the hands of the first discoverer. 



There is, in the library of the East India Company, a ma- 

 nuscript page, apparently intended for engraving, which 

 was brought or received from the continent by the late John 

 Walker, Esq., F.R.S., and by him presented to Mr. Wil- 

 kins. It contains a Persepolitan alphabet, compared with 

 Russian, Persian, and Roman letters ; and it is remarkable 

 that by this alphabet almost every letter in the name of 

 Xerxes, as identified by Mr. ChampoUion and Mr. St. Mar- 

 tin, is read in the same manner, except the initial aspirate, 

 which the anonymous author makes an O : while on the other 

 hand it is singular that the corresponding hieroglyphic on 

 the vase was also read by Dr. Young as an O. There is, 

 however, another exception in the substitution of E for B : 

 that of R for L is rather a confirmation of Mr. Champollion's 

 reading, than an exception. 



