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On each side of our theological monument six figures (No. 24) 

 appear, of which two are represented with four arms. The house 

 of the sun (Virgo) is expressed by the solar disk with a child, 

 and the latter, called vy»P«' ancient T-npi, like the Hebrew IIJ 

 (gur), infans lactans, signifies the letters gr^ the Coptic o-oiAc, 

 the Hebrew IIJ » "ilT (gur), mansio, domicilium. To the same 

 root is, as I believe, to be referred m^JO. nilJO (magaloth, ma- 

 o-aroth), which, as is well known, are the names of the signs of 

 the Zodiac, corresponding with the Arabian signs of the Zodiac 

 ''mang-al" and the Coptic ^e<-'^i>i\\i, locus habitationis. The 

 rootof these names is, no doubt, ^J or ^J (gol, gor), related with 

 -ili'ID (maqhor), turris. The house of the moon (Leo) is shown 

 by the picture of a disk, opposite to the sun, which is, apart from 

 a very light green ring, colorless, like the moon. 



25-35 have been discussed in the premises Nos. 14-30. The 

 only difference is that -^pe, creare (No. 34), is expressed by the 

 letters tk, i.e. toct, plantare, whereby the syllabic value of the 

 traces, viz. tr, is put beyond question ; for "plantare" and "cre- 

 are" are synonyms. 



36. This ligature denotes "mansion"; for the so-called "crux 

 ansata" properly represents the human brain, viz. oux, very often 

 expressed by the letters onk (PI. II. No. 61), which point us to 

 the word ono, habitare, dwelling. The arm .w-^voi, the Hebrew 

 nos (amah), gives jw.e^, locus; and hence our ligature presents 

 the notion, "dwelling-place." 



37 is the notorious sign of the genitive, itTe, zoo^ of. 



38 is not, as the Champollionists imagined, the sun, but, as we 

 have seen (Nos. 21,31), the word (K)oTpo, Kufno;;^ the Lord, 

 expressed by the letters kr. The dish is, according to Champol- 

 lion, n^ and then an abbreviation of the word nnfi (dominus), 

 even of niAv (omnis), instead of mficn (omnis). That niM, and 

 nnfi, and uifien, are very ditlerent vocables, makes no difference 

 in the eyes of the Champollionists. But, alas ! the name of the 

 dish was not neb^ but yA (gal), scutum, 2c.G^-Avivei, <pudkfj, 

 dish, h^ (gol), rhi (gulah), rb)i (qhalach) ; and hence the Tanis- 

 stone (L. 37) expresses by the same figure kr, i.e. y^copa (the Heb. 

 hh^, -I3-1D, kir-kir), which the demotic text renders by the snake 

 d.Ropi, i.e. by kr. (See PI. II. No. 62, a. b.) Lepsius's expla- 

 nation of the dish on the Tanis-stone is too evident to be refuted. 



