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of 10,000 articles, and an extensive Grammar, could not, with 

 the exception of two words, translate the Pompeian Tablet? 



4. By means of S.'s (the writer's) system, says our Gidipus, 

 " not one-half of a hieroglyphic line can be translated." This in- 

 genuous declaration clearly proves that he has never seen the 

 writer's Egyptian Grammar, Theologische Schriften, and other 

 publications. The former (p. 51-81) elucidates eleven chapters 

 of the Todtenbuch, and each group is spelled out, reduced to Cop- 

 tic and Hebrew i-oots, and accordingly translated. The second 

 work contains, i. a commentary to the entire first book of the 

 same sacred Egyptian records; 2. to the Judgment of the Dead; 

 3. to the Hymn to Orion ; 4. to the Princes in the land of justice ; 

 5. to the Creator of the fruits ; 6. to the Heavenly Household ; 

 7. to the Hymn to the Sun ; 8. to the Catacomb of Amos ; 9. to 

 Idolum Thordanum ; 10. to the Sarcophagus of Memphis ; 11. to 

 the Sarcophagus in the Academical Museum of Leipzig; 12. to 

 the Door of Philje ; 13. to the Rosetta-stone ; 14, to Hermapion's 

 Obelisk; 15. to the Tablet of Abydos, — apart from the transla- 

 tions in "Zeitschrift der Deutsch. Morgenl. Gesell." etc. Now, is 

 it true that it is "impossible to read only one-half of a hieroglypic 

 line" by means of the writer's theorv? 



5. The same veracious friend tells the v.'orld that S. (the writer) 

 "could only translate by the instrumentality of a self-made lan- 

 guage, called by him Old Chaldaic." Will the reader be so kind 

 as to examine one of those translations? In case the language of 

 the ancient Egyptians was not related with the Hebrew, the pri- 

 mitive tongue of the world, Brugsch was a fool in reducing a 

 thousand hieroglyphic words to Hebrew roots, as his Dictionary 

 shows. 



6. Further, it is an imposition that Lepsius has fixed "forever" 

 the history and chronology of Egypt ; for the historical and astro- 

 nomical monuments of the Egyptians demonstrate that their his- 

 tory commenced in 2780 B.C., and not before the deluge and the 

 creation. Lepsius's "Chronology,'* " The Book of the Kings," 

 and the like, are deplorable ij^nes fatni. 



7. It is an ilhision that " Lepsius discovered the cycles of the 

 solar deities." for the respective representations involve planetary 

 configurations. 



S. It is falsity that Lepsius discovered the standard alphabet of 



