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2. The lion's claw, 2fiL«\.v\.H, containing the letters k?n^ gives 

 RH.w.e, acoiome, r\ty\^ (qoma), corruptly ujhm, usloav, and many 

 similar words. G. M. 6i, No. 249 ; T. B. \a, 145a, 146a, etc. ; 

 St. L. T. vol. i. p. 545. Add to these the new signification dis- 

 covered by Goodwin, namely, "president." 



3. No name of the queen -bee being preserved in the Coptic, 

 we must recur to the Hebrew -^^ (melek), and the Greek txkhr- 

 ra, iikhoaa^ the same word, owing to the usual mutation of k 

 into t and s. See p. 203, No. 5. This bee, notoriously in very 

 many places following the word yJjfnoz, ROTpo, lord, and preced- 

 ing royal names, expresses syllabically mlk (melek, king), for 

 which reason it is sometimes replaced by the figure of a king. 

 PL XXX. 413, b. Moreover, the bee signifies, in Ebers' medical 

 papyrus, an ingredient of a dozen or more prescriptions, viz. 

 melissa, apiastrum. Nevertheless the Cham.pollionist Ebers, by 

 means of a Champollionistic hocus pocus, takes the bee for 

 " honey," because the bee makes honey. This is, no doubt, one 

 of the greatest discoveries of the 19th century, and yet Mr. Good- 

 win conjures out of the bee the idea "keeper" (of the seal). Is 

 not that wonderful ? 



4 is not at all a seal, but the girdle fiiui, or chain, for attaching 

 cattle. See T. B. PI. viii. xxvi. Ixx. ; G. M. p. 103, No. 544. 

 Accordingly we have to translate — the king of the compass (of 

 the heavens), and not ideologically, "the seal." Comp. T. B. 

 125, 28, "the girdle of the earth." 



5. One of the most frequently occurring images, viz. cenni, 

 hackled flax, by which, in numerous places, ujoir, Germ, schaf- 

 en, is signified. See Papyrus Stone, St. L. T. vol. i. PI. 8, where 

 it seventeen times expresses ujon, creator. G. yE. 102, No. 537 ; 

 see following Nos. 102, 172, 210 ; T. S. 1. xii. xxix. xxxii. ; R. S. 

 iv. 27, 31— X. 7, 14— xii. 22. 



6. The well-known goblet, resting upon a table, which goblet 

 being called cvc^jot, a. oe^noT, carries the word ec^oTPT, a. ^gtiottt, 

 related with habitus, Fr. habit. Germ. Habit, Lat. vestis. Since 

 Ch. takes the flax for a particle making intransitives, and the 

 goblet for the word "fuseau," I do not understand why Goodwin 

 translates them " companion." See No. 173. 



7. This figure, representing a weaver's shuttle (G. yE. PL 47, 

 593)5 was called ntoT, cursor, runner ; wherefore it was to express 



