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//, and indeed signifies the same letters in otojt, xid (bada), 

 unus, primus (T. S. xix. xx. xxix. and xxi.) According to the 

 Chs., this same figure means ideolagically "javelin," and gives 

 with the preceding w^ord, "companion of the javelin." But is not 

 such a phrase pure nonsense? See PI. xix. 249; xxx. 414, b. 



8. the well-defined image of a hill or mount, t<\-)-, TojA.-r, rue. 

 (comp. Avev. H Tne, locus montanus), the Heb. in (tf) expresses 

 the same letters in a great many words, e.g. Toirfio, mundus (PI. 

 xvi. 208, xxviii. 394, xx. 263, xiii. 165), TivT-o (T. S. v.), xoirfio 

 (T. S. ix.), Tefi in Philopator (PI. xxx. 415, b'). 



9. Since the axe was called ^evTHp (G.^. 87, 42S) and the 

 lettuce o-ro-^, beta (G.^. 79, 377)' we have the word 9ojnT (hpt) 

 concinnare, creare, which returns iii. 14, 18, v. 41 ; further, hpt 

 (ooT-iT, princeps) T. S. xii. xvi. {(p'-'^^-'-pXo^)^ xix. (tcv-pc, zpotpij- 

 r/^c)- See PI. xxx. No. z| 16, b. The deluded G. takes the group 

 for " prophet," and hence the Creator was a prophet. 



10. The sparrow-hawk, expressed very often by the letters kr 

 (PL xxx. 417, b), signifies acop, potentia, and not, as G. imagined, 

 Har. Besides, B. substitutes an eagle. T. B. 125, d; i, 3, 4, 6 ; 

 8, 22. PI. xxx. 418, 383, 390. 



11 is not a bowl called neb, which word does not occur in Cop- 

 tic works, but rh"^ (kalah), (yeAi, patina; and never expresses nb, 

 but always kl, kr (^3, yMpcoz)^ PI. vi. 56, v. 39, xx. 295, xv. 201 ; 

 even ^yx (^g^l), tenere, x. 119, and o'po, xxii. 305, xxx. 418. 

 Comp. T. B. 145, 18, with x'jb, ^b, 5^, 60, 62, 70, etc. 



12. The gutturals going over to /i, the root of this group, are 

 am (khaba), corrupted ^on, tectus, obscurus. The unfortunate 

 G., believing that all the words preceding the maps were cities, 

 •discovered the new city of" Hebnu." Comp. 105, 107. 



13. See Plates, Nos. ii. ^, /i; "iv. 23, 105, 107, 162, 240, 272, 

 312,317,381. 



14. See Nos. 9, 41. 



15. See Nos. 24, 57, 144, 297, 359. 



16 represents a goat, and not, as B. fancied, an antelope. The 

 former being called cie, c^oc; Germ. Ziege, we have the word 

 ffioc, related with ^su(; and deus. The name of the goat will be 

 seen in Lepsius's Deukm. ii. T. 14. See Plate xxx. 412 (5, viz., 



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