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In the same work, p. 40 c^ 41, Brugsch Bey experimented to 

 explain the sense of the Fompeian stele, as follows : "It is of the 

 time of the conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Great, but the 

 text is (according to Champollion's hieroglyphic system) inex- 

 plicable, except Nos. 69 and 71, signifying the right and the left 

 eyes, symbolically expressed." 



A complete translation of the inscription, however, issued in 

 "Records of the P.ist," London, 1875, vol. iv. p. 65, made by 

 C. W. Goodwin, M.A. He refers it '^to events of the Persian 



period but no king is actually mentioned in the inscription by 



name, nor is the particular battle described in which the person 

 for whom the inscription was made happened to be engaged. It 

 is, in fact, an adoration of the god Chnumis" (read Ken-nuphi), 

 " of whom the person was the priest. This sacerdotal personage 

 appears to have taken part in the military operations, although 

 it is not mentioned that he had any military office. It has been 

 arranged in paragraphs of sentences, and it is an interesting ex- 

 ample of the inscriptions of the later period which is not much 

 illustrated by contemporaneous monuments, although well-known 

 from other sources. It is, however, always desirable to know 

 the state of Egypt from its own contemporaiy documents, of 

 which this is an interesting example." 



The following is Goodwin's wonderful version of our Fom- 

 peian stele, based upon Champollion's hieroglyphic system, and, 

 since it is very desirable finally to notice the difference of Cham- 

 pollion's theory and that of the writer, it will first be expedient 

 to parallel the versions with each other line by line. 



GOODWIN. 1 THE WRITER. 



I. The Prince, President, keeper ! The supreme power, the king of 



of the seal, Companion of the jave- 

 lin. Prophet of Kar, Lord of Hebnu 

 (Hipponomi in i6th N. E. Nome), 

 Prophet of the gods of Sah (i6th 

 N. E. Nome), Prophet of Samtati of 

 Ahehu, 



2. Spiritual superior of the Un, 

 chief of the priests of Sechet in the 

 whole land, Samtati -Taf- Necht, 

 son of the house master, 



the earth, the creator of the verdant 

 cloak of the world, the builder of all 

 the powers hidden in the earth, the 

 builder of the deities, the regent of 

 the country, the builder of all the 

 nations, the weaver of the numer- 

 ous hotels 



on earth, the stitcher of the heav- 

 enly constellations delighting every 

 one, the weaver of the vesture, the 

 clothier of the delightful plantations 

 on which all nations originate, the 



