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however, the revival of Egyptian literature depends principally 

 on the syllabic hieroglyphs, we challenge this short-sighted poly- 

 histor to produce the passage where Champollion retracted his 

 doctrine that "no hieroglyph expressed a syllable," and to show 

 a plate where the same determined the syllabic values of the 630 

 or less hieroglyphic figures. Moreover, we challenge Brugsch 

 to interpret our inscription grammatically and logically by the 

 real system of the "great master." Should he, however, fail to 

 accomplish the problem without my syllabic hieroglyphs, he is 

 morally obliged to confess liis calumnies and literary spoliations. 

 He will not forget that he is a responsible being. By the way, 

 these vei-y same crimes were committed in De Rouge's Memoire, 

 Par. 1851 (see Leipz. Repert. 1853, p. 155). The author, desert- 

 ing Champollion's system, took 24 hieroglyphs for syllabic charac- 

 ters, as they were first determined in my lithographed pamphlet, 

 of which a copy was in his hand. I am sorry that this laborious 

 man left this world with the brand of calumny and plagiarism on 

 his name. 



Furthermore, nobody before me (Rudimenta, 1826) has taught 

 that the language of the ancient Egyptians was related with the 

 Hebrew (Rudimenta, p. 13, n. 37). In the same work, several 

 Hebrew words, obvious in the original Egyptian literature, have 

 been mentioned (p. 14, n. 38 ; p. 13, n. 37 ; p. 47, n. 5 ; p. 48, 

 n. 7 ; p. 49, n. 17 ; p. 59, n. 7 ; p. 62, n. 5 ; p. 65, n. 3 ; p. 70, 

 n. 9; p. 72, n. 22, &c.) My Grundsatze, etc., L. 1843, p. 223, 

 etc., likewise reduced Coptic words to Hebrew roots. Moreover, 

 the same was done in my syllabic alphabet (1846), e.g. in the 

 following 63 places: Nos. 13, 43,45, 61, 116, 120, 123, 130, 

 144, 165, 173, 182, 186, 187, 190, 191, 202, 212^ 214, 215, 3l8, 

 226, 245, 253, 269, 279, 281, 313, 416, 439, 441, 455, 464, 469, 

 493' 5^7' 5^9' 520, 521, 524^ 53^^ 559» S^o, 561, 57^' S^S^ 589^ 

 616, 617, 620, 623; pp. 55, 61, 6s, 6'j, 73, 74, 80, 83, 85, 86, 

 87, 87. Many other examples of this kind will be found in my 

 Grammatica ^g., in the commentary to the hieroglyphic alpha- 

 bet, and in my " Theologische Schriften," etc., L. 1855, pp. 117, 

 118. Since nobody prior to 1826 has taught and by many exam- 

 ples demonstrated that the Hebrew language preserved both the 

 roots and original forms of numberless hieroglyphic words, whilst 



