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TRANS. ST. LOUIS ACAD. SCIENCE. 



hieroglyphs by guessing, but science wants no guess-work, andy 

 besides, many such hieroglyphic figures express very different 

 words in other places. The axe, e.g., does not always signify 

 "god," as the Chts. imagined, but also /i; the heart signifies not 

 only " heart," but also " soul," and so on. 



The question will be asked : how came it to pass that, during a 

 hieroglyphic text logically? Answer : because Ch. knew not that 

 period of fifty-six years, no Cht. was able to translate any entire 

 the Egyptian literature originated from the primitive Alphabet^ 

 and not from an original ideologic writing ; that the same litera- 

 ture was, in general, a syllabic one, as was discovered in 1826; 

 and, especially, that each of the 630 hieroglyphs signified the two 

 or three consonants contained in the name of the figure, as was^ 

 discovered in 1844; that, moreover, the language of the ancient 

 Egyptians was a Hebrew dialect, and not the modern Coptic^ 

 All these particulars of the writer's theory are now confirmed by 

 the Pompeian Tablet, as the sequent catalogues will evince. 



SYLLABIC HIEROGLYPHS IN THE PREMISES. 



The following hieroglyphs are enumerated according to their 

 natural series established in my Grammatica ^Elgyptiaca. Ta 

 make the list more complete, a few examples are added taken 

 from our bilingual monuments. 



Figures. 



I. — Heavenly Objects. 



Words and References 

 niTe '■^JH. zd, 345. 

 323 176- 



;)^po-\-,66; Rpo, 127; .*ev.p&., 288; 

 x'jp(u^, 152, 43, 64. 422,303; 



XOpta.^ i. d ; c'cpc, 303, 43; 



Xpo> T.S. xaxpo;;, 442 & pas. 



fioT^fioir, 78, 426; Epiphanes, 



R. S. inneir, Pegasus, astr. 



mn /""'J'^5 men-sis, pass. Menes, astr. 



kll,kl, kr oAcoi'Ai, ei'A.c'A., RoVtVoA, *o"\- 



bb 



*e^, T. S. 



II. — Geographical Objects. 



Figures. Name 



Tellus fievRi 



Values. Words and References, 



bk fitoK, ^dwKi, circuit, 46, 2t„ 162, 



240,272,387; 11.^,317; filTHC, 



105, 107. 



