SEYFFARTH THE HIEROGLYPHIC TABLET OF POMPEIUM. 2T,l 



tion of the group occurs very often, e.g. T. B. i, i ; 3, 17 ; 7, 8. 

 Our Egyptologist translates, of course, " in the battle." Such are 

 the fruits of the world-renowned system. 



200, the papyrus-plant, ram, 2CL6)«.e, ar^i (gome), containing 

 jkm, and hence signifying 2CA<.e, to generate, populate. See Nos. 

 192, 36, 47. 



201, 202. Inasmuch as the bowl (see n, 39, 44) expressed the 

 syllables k/, kr, we have the words X^'^P^^^ 1^^ (S"*')' ^'egion, and 

 i?3 (kol), all. Yet Mr. G. informs us that the last three glyphs 

 signify "the Greeks." This wonderful interpretation is based on 

 L.'s very wonderful translation of the T.S. 1. 37, viz. : the Greek 

 text says that the priestly resplutions were to be promulgated in 

 hieroglyphic, Egyptian and Greek letters ; and the R. S., con- 

 cluding with the same order, calls the demotic text ypdiiixaxa 

 IvicopM^ domestic letters, instead of AljUTiria. Now L., being 

 unable to spell the group signifying ' EXAr^vcxoz^ and containing 

 the letters krks (Graecus), interprets the latter by " the letters of 

 the books," i.e., according to his capacity, the Egyptian or do- 

 mestic letters. Consequently the resting group must signify 

 " Greek." This was, of course, a hard nut ; and yet the art of 

 guessing overcomes all difficulties. The bowl, says L., signifies 

 the abbreviated word nifieu, i.e. him, and the Coptic name of the 

 Greeks was oTremm; consequently our group signifies the sylla- 

 ble nin in OT^Ginm, GrtEcus, by the figure of the bowl niA\.. It is 

 true, nm and mn differ a little, but such trifling discrepancies, L. 

 says, make no difference. Finally, the preceding figure of the 

 papyrus-plant (rcwja, soJ- gome) ?}iust have been pronounced o^, 

 because the group must express o-remm, Gracus. The papyrus 

 always expresses k and km^ and nowhere u ; but it must ra- 

 ther have been pronounced «, say the Champollionists, for the 

 reason that it expressed u in oTcimn. Such is the pi'esent 

 method of forming logical deductions. Moreover, the T. S. uses 

 the figures of papyrus and three bowls for expressing the regions 

 of Egypt, whilst the Pompeian Tablet puts only tv^^o bowls (sig- 

 nifying duality), and hence at that time two Greek nations were 

 in existence. Is not that strange in the extreme? — From this 

 TTpcoTou (I'suooc it was concluded that figure 199 represented a 

 battle, and that the person concerned (Vespasian) fought " the 

 battle of the Greeks," apart from all other absurdities. The fact, 



