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tic language, and the art of deciphering grammatically entire 

 Egyptian inscriptions. Sapienti sat! — The papyrus scroll is fol- 

 lowed by three boundary stones, referring to the root o-tcoti, the 

 Hebrew na (bad), dividere, by which stones the word o-rex, alius, 

 was expressed. (See Nos. 6, 7, it, 13, 61 d.) Hence the scroll 

 with the boundary stones simply expresses plurality, but em- 

 phatically. 



5. The acre, very often intersected with furrows (see PI. II. 

 60 b.), called cpc, related with the Hebrew n3X (akar, arare), 

 the Latin ager^ Gr. apyoz^ Goth, akr. Germ. Acker, our "acre," 

 expresses syllabically ir, alphabetically k, because it stands very 

 often for kr (PI. II. No. 60, <^). Hence this figure signifies kr 

 very often, e.g. in Grce-czis on the Tanis- stone. Brugsch, not 

 knowing the name of tiie " acre," takes this figure always for s, 

 and hence his Dictionary spells and translates some thousands of 

 groups wrongly. The following figure of thrashed straw (too^ 

 TO*) forms with the preceding k the word kot, the Hebrew "I^** 

 (akad), circumire, revolution. The same (No. 7) is expressed 

 by the well known letters kt. Hence our groups clearly express 

 "planeta," "revolving star," by " makers of revolutions." The 

 Champollionists explain the same figure ideologically by "coun- 

 try" and " loaf." 



6. The well known axe (evK&Hp, oe^THp). which in numberless 

 places signifies "ms^ (adir), mighty, deity, alphabetically /^, 

 Brugsch took for n, and for the abbreviated word mtter, god ; 

 but, alas ! no such word exists in any ancient language. 



7. This substantive with the plural termination settles the point 

 that No. 5 is to be spelled kt, and not so ; for the well known 

 ansated dish expresses constantly k, and the walking feet (tootg) 

 express t and //, e.g. in Athothis (Gram. y^g. p. 56 & 78, No. 

 363). Brugsch imagined the feet to signify t. The preceding 

 door-bar (cfee) expresses sb, sp (Gram. ^-Eg. p. 87, No. 434), 

 consequently vyon, the German " schaften"; but, according to the 

 Champollionists, this figure makes intransitives, which would 

 give downright nonsense. 



8. The star, 331D (kokab), which belongs to the root 333 (ko- 

 bab), 3N3 (kaab), 3333 (kabkab), globulus, is the original word 

 for the Coptic ciot- {siv). Hence the Champollionists erroneously 

 spell the star s instead of kb, acrophonically k. The following 



