SEYFFAKTH- 



-THE HIEROGLYPHIC TABLET OF POMPEIUM. 2S9 



ing. But, how is this to be eftetced ? Shall we let the Chts. 

 alone? Persons being deafened by the clapping of Ch's follow- 

 ers, and blinded by the nimbus put upon his head, will never 

 confess the blunders of their master. On the contrary, they will 

 propagate the fallacy by their new organ, "Revue Egyptologique, 

 publiee par H. Brugsch, F. Chabas, et E. Revillout." Moreover, 

 since the death of Prof. M. Uhlemann of Gottingen and H. 

 Wultke no Egyptologist exists in Europe who is able and willing 

 to swim against the stream. The Literary Gazettes, designated to 

 warn against the propagation of literary falsehoods, do not exist 

 any more. There is, under the present circumstances, only one 

 way for reaching the end, and that is the following. The Cham- 

 pollionists must be forced to confess the truth, and for this pur- 

 pose they must, in all parts of the world, be attacked not with 

 silk gloves, but with the fist of Clavigo, as follows. 



CHALLENGE. 



In the next place, I challenge Brugsch Bey, the first editor of 

 the Pompeian Tablet, who since 1851 has constantly asserted "the 

 great master Champollion to have discovered the key to the 

 Egyptian literature," but the writer's researches to be '■'vana ficta^^ 

 to translate and comment on the said text grammatically and logi- 

 cally, according to Champollion's theory, his Grammar and Dic- 

 tionary, in the next numbers of his " Revue Egyptologique," or 

 •elsewhere. Should he, however, fail to accomplish the theme 

 within six months, or to publicly confess his faults, I shall de- 

 nounce him as a gross calumniator and shameless charlatan. 



For the same purpose, and under the same conditions, I chal- 

 lenge Lepsius, who since 1836 has constantly maintained Ch's 

 theory to be the key to the Egyptian literature, my own theory, 

 on the contrary, to be the outcast of literary productions ; further, 

 the Rev. P. Le Page Rcnouf, a member of the Catholic University 

 of Ireland, the most refined pasquillant among the greatest lam- 

 pooners ; furthermore, Pi'of. Ebers, in Leipzig, the pupil of Lep- 

 sius ; likewise, the translators of Egyptian texts in " Records of 

 the Past," published by the London Society of Biblical Arche- 

 ology ; especially, the blinded Champollionist C. W. Goodwin, 

 M.A. ; further, MM. F. Chabas and Eug. Revillout, the friends 

 of Brugsch ; finally, all other Champollionists, known or un- 

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