SEYFFARTH THE HIEROGLYPHIC TABLET OF POISIPEIUM. I97 



GOODWIN. 

 Lord of all things, the beneficent 

 spirit in Suten-Senen, 



16. Turn first in 



king of , 



generations the kingdom for the 

 ruler of lands, 



17. (causing) his beloved son to 

 be king of both lands, who comes to 

 the heavens and beholds therein 

 Chnum, king of both lands, Tum in 

 his sanctuary: 



18. the great god who approaches 

 the shrine of the king of Lower and 

 Upper Egypt, Un-nefer. May your 

 names remain upon earth (may ye 

 be) in favor 



19. with Chnum, king of both 

 lands, while ye say, "May the gods, 

 the Eyes which are in Suten-Senen, 

 be favorable to his reverence, the 

 devoted to his district, Samtati-Taf- 

 Necht. 



20. May ye yourselves be blessed. 

 May others repeat your names for 

 years and years." 



THE WRITER. 



the illustrious King of both hemi- 

 spheres, the conqueror of the ene- 

 my, the beneficent prince, the germ 

 of the Lord autocrat ot the world, 

 the image of the Creator, warden of 

 the capital city, the regent both of 

 the nobility and vulgar, the lord of 

 the hosts, the chief of the planets 

 and the signs, the planter of the 

 honored, the planter of the servant, 

 the crusher of the rebellion of the 

 subjects of the king, 

 the progenitor of his darling, the 

 commander of the army, whose glo- 

 ry of vengeance extends to the heav- 

 enly ark, the extinguisher of the 

 leader who attacked the mighty god, 

 [the lord] of the host, the likeness 

 of the head of the capital, the germ 

 of 



the regent in the invisible dwelling, 

 the Lord Regent : the Good Father. 

 Ofter a share, every one of you. 

 Weave robes, raiments, garments, 

 mantles of flax 



for the supreme God, the lord of the 

 hosts, and who surpasses the power 

 of the Planets, the zodiacal gods, 

 the Decani, the lord autocrat of the 

 world, the glorious procurator of 

 the king, the creator of the web of 

 the universe, 



the creator of all nations, who ac- 

 quired glory for you, who exalted 

 you, who prepared a mansion and 

 aliment for you since many years. 



THE END. 



This wonderful translation of the Pompeian stele, made ac- 

 cording to Champollion's hieroglyphic system, will finally, as I 

 hope, open the eyes of the scientific world ; it will confirm the 

 honest confession in Bunsen's y^gypten's Stellung, etc., Ham- 

 burg, 1845, i. 320 : "We declare decidedly that there is not a man 

 alive who could read and explain [according to Champollion's 



