SEYFFARTH THE HIEROGLYPHIC TABLET OF POMPEIUM. 321 



•ceding "dwelling." According to G., the defunct priestly war- 

 rior had no dwelling in this world except that of " Chnumis." 

 This is, as it seems to me, pure nonsense. See G. yE. loi, 532, 

 and farther on No. 253. 



109, ooHT, together. See 262. G. takes the extended arms 

 again for " not." 



110, the familiar representation of the human hair, Rd.n, ip (qaf), 

 for which reason it signifies the word ^Hfii, a. Sh^i, nsD (keebj), 

 luctus. T. S. xxvi. xxix. See PI. xxxi. 431, a. This repre- 

 sentation of the hair is not, as Ch. imagined, a figurative symbolic 

 sign, but, as Clement informs us, xupcoloyel did [lifxr^acv^ loquitur 

 per imitationem ; it is phonetic figuratively. Poor G. translates 

 the hair with the preceding and following hieroglyphs, "■ I have 



not turned away from doing ," which is mere fancy-work. 



Comp. 275. 



111. See IC4. G. takes it probably for " I." 



112. very often translated xai on the R. S. and the T. S., refers 

 to the root pH-^, probably the ancient oopT-q, imago, similitudo ; 

 therefore our group signifies "similiter." G. recurs to ep '^-j and 

 translates it by " from doing," which is irreconcilable with our 

 bilingual monuments. 



The following six words were inexplicable for G., and yet the 

 " great master's system" is the only " key to the whole of the 

 Egyptian literature," the Champollionists say. 



113. These three birds (fieu) stand, on the Zodiac of Dendera, 

 for the beaming sun (fioTrfioTr), and express the constellation Pega- 

 sus (-rne-r, iTTKO^). See 78 ; PI. xxxi. 428, d. The same are, more- 

 over, on Fl. O. on the Porta del Popolo, translated by (J.y?M07T0c:j- 

 aac, \^H/doo noAcv]. Hence it is evident that our group (fioirfioir) 

 signifies "pubes," the letters pb being expressed in fioTfioT, par- 

 ticularly in connection with the hairs. See PI. xxx. No. 42 /, a. b. 



114. The door-bar, c6e, shamefully altered by the sign of plu- 

 rality (DV yiin) by B., and, in very many places, substituted by the 

 similitude of the flax (G. JE,. 87, 434), expresses the same letters 

 sp and the word ujon, schaft-en (84). 



115 represents an egg, called khm, genimen, and, standing very 

 often in lieu of the gander, expresses kn in olb^ '^ HXiou^ notori- 

 ously, and not ^£. 



