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does not signify ujg pw, the son of the sun, as Ch. imagined, but 

 RHn Ro^p, genimen Domini. The Chs., in numerous instances, 

 took the gander for s instead of k and ^n. Besides, ujg is the 

 totally corrupted ujupi, and p» the corrupted Ro-rpo, xupi-0(;. 

 Simple G., having forgotten that the Egyptians distinguished the 

 sexes of animals by different names (G.^E. p. 9, No. 16), mis- 

 understood a great many similar hieroglyphs. Our gander signi- 

 fies RHn, progenitor, and not son. Hence Saturn (KrjS, vJTOe 

 •/.povoz) was expressed by the gander {k) and a foot {b). See 

 PI. XXX. 423, b. 



89, the bowl, signifying kr (Nos. 11, 44, 56, 87, etc.), gives 

 the word sfiipo, niy (kor), victor. 



40. Since the vat, n3 (beth), of which the Coptic name has 

 perhaps been preserved in ROTr-c^A.T, i.e. R(ofi-n&.T, vas textoris, 

 we obtain the word 6oTe, abominabilis, with the plural termina- 

 tion. For the appended kernels, signifying meal or kernels of 

 grain, fiwTc, far (T.B. 72, 8^ change very often with the three 

 boundary-stones, the usual plural termination, ni (voth). T.B. 

 15, 48; 28, 5; 109, 12; 28, 5; 124, 3; 125, 32: 128, 8. Our 

 passage obviously views Vespasian, the conqueror of the Jews. 

 B. puts, in lieu of the vat, the figure of a court ; for which rea- 

 son, probably, G. brought out " house-master." notwithstanding 

 that his " house-master No. 44 totally diflers from No, 40. 



41. See 9, 14, 18 — the creator, and not the prophet, as G. 

 fancied. B. transforms bt into kr. 



42. js.jw.OT-n is glory, and not, as G. imagined, the god Am- 

 mon, because the figure of a man is not added. 



43 is not Ra, the sun, as G. conjectured, but -/.'Jpco^ crpe, the 

 illustrious king (Vespasian). 



44, spelled kr hp, is majordomo, housekeeper, steward, like 

 No. 51. G. forgot to mark by .... that he was unable to trans- 

 late this group. 



45. The image of an orchard, 2cto.M., codja., which very often 

 expresses /^, e.g. in the name of the Decani Libra, Bcxan (PI. 

 XXX. 421, a), r. fii2c, abacus librae ; and km in DPI (kham), eestas, 

 the corrupted ujwjw., summer, beginning on July 20th. G.yE. 76, 

 349. Nevertheless the same figure expresses s and sn, wherefore 

 we have to refer it to ^nn. hortus. Hence many Egyptian cities 

 commence with ujen, hortus, followed by the name of a deity. 



