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All these particulars have been demonstrated in the writer's 

 Rudimenta Hieroglyphices, Lips. 1826, pp. 12, 13, 15, 29, nota 

 79, 33, 39, 41 ; Alphabeta Genuina, Lips. 1S40, p. 105 ; Grund- 

 satze der Mythologie u. d. Hieroglyphensysteme ; Leipziger Re- 

 pertorium, r844, ^"g- 9 ' Jahresbericht der ersten Versammlung 

 der Deutschen Orientalisten, 1S45 ; Grammatica -^gypt., Gotha, 

 1855, pp. 2, 4, 9, II ; Beilagen, pp. 1-91, and the like. 



Since, then, Mr. Goodwin followed a hieroglyphic system 

 totally wrong, it is natural that his work is unblushing nonsense 

 from the first to the last group, as every reader will see with his 

 own eyes. Let us notice some of its follies. 



The Pompeian Tablet was, as the title and the whole of the 

 context demonstrates, written for the Emperor Vespasian in the 

 time intervening between the destruction of Jerusalem in 71 a.c. 

 and Vespasian's death on June 23, 79 a.c. The slab, besides, 

 was inscribed in Italy and not in Egypt, owing to its material 

 being white shell marble, which is to be found in Italy and not 

 in Egypt. Now, our Champollionist discovered the following 

 Italian cities : Har, Hebnu, Samtati, Ahehu, Un, Sethet, Sam- 

 tati-Taf-Necht, Es-Senem, Suten-Senen, Uat-Ur, Eyes. Indeed, 

 this is an improvement of Italian geography either 500 or 300 

 B.C., and the discoverer of these places will be so kind as to de- 

 termine their localities. Further, the same translator discovered 

 a number of new Italian gods, e.g., Chnum, Shu, Har, Tum, 

 Unnofer ; and he would deserve the thanks of the civilized world 

 by evidencing what deities Chnum, Shu, Har, Tum, Unnofer 

 have represented. However, should our able Champollionist 

 insist upon it that the Tablet of Pompeii refers to an "• Egyptian 

 priest engaged in a battle," it would be very interesting to learn 

 the location of the aforementioned cities as well as the proper 

 meaning pf these new Egyptian divinities. At least, the cities and 

 the gods of Egypt are pretty well known, and yet these names 

 have not been mentioned by any ancient or modern authority. 

 By the way, the same city plan by which Mr. Goodwin created 

 new cities is on the first line (unknown to him) preceded both 

 by men and women, and this fact proves that, apart from the 

 aforesaid eight new cities, even a city of the worshipping men 

 and of the worshipping women, either in the time of Cambyses 



