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53, representing a wife with the papyrns-stalk {km), expresses, 

 -as we have seen (PI. i. d), yo-iitTri, the emperor's consort. 



54, DsLCT-cq, who (El) says. See No. 48. This is the first 

 group of the Pompeian stele correctly translated by G. 



55. This figure represents a man (G. /E. p. 37, No. 40), but 

 refers to L"13S (enosh), and not to ^«.m, as I presumed. The 

 Hebrew t:'"i:s is the corrupted ^JN and njX (anoch), the Coptic 

 ivu.«, vita, anima, and hence anochi ?^x\d. anachnu signify properly 

 my soul, our souls; i.e. I, we. The sime words, moreover, ex- 

 press also, I am, we are ; and hence our human figure expresses 

 " I am." By the way, Gesenius imagined L'^X (ish) to be the 

 abbreviated K'lJS (enosh), which the Egyptian literature refutes; 

 for e.ui, the Hebrew L*'\S (ish), is expressed by the figure 49, 

 while C'-'JJ^ (enosh) belongs to the figure under consideration. 

 The signification of the man, viz. "I am," is confirmed in T. B. 

 149,43; 54, 126, I ; 33, I, where the defunct says, "I am the 

 killer of the serpents." Misguided G. guessed the figure of a man 

 ■to signify, " O" I 



56. See 11. 57. See 15. 



58 is the already mentioned ^x (el) together with the solar disk, 

 signifying (K)o^-po, xupco:: (43). G. brings out "Chnum," a name 

 •of his own fixbrication. 



59. This Egyptian sedge, followed by a bee, commonly pre- 

 cedes royal names, and, in certain instances, we find instead of it 

 the figure of a king (PL xxx. 422, a). Accordingly it must sig- 

 nify king, lord, governor, and the like. The same figure is very 

 often expressed by kr^ signifying ssiepe fievjvi, the warm country, 

 southern Egypt (PI. xxx. 423, a), and thus it is evident that its 

 name must have contained the letters k?: Indeed, Hesych and 

 Theophrast mention fuzou zc yvAnzvov Iv zdl^ xar AqoTzrov 

 ehffcu, called ffdpi, which was perhaps our plant, k very often 

 being changed into s (p. 19). 



60. See 47. G. elicits "the double land" instead of host. The 

 Qordof the host simply signifies itnperator. 



61. See PI. i. c. 



62. The nail of a finger or toe, called (?) iDi* (kapar), lefi, ^lefi, 

 •ancient *efi, which very often signifies kb (t*l. xxx. 424, b), and 

 lience, in our place, the word rhch, k^«, terra, regio. B. changed 

 ^thesign of plurality into duality, and G. brings out "districts." 



