SEYFFARTH — THE HIEROGLYPHIC TABLET OF POMPEIUM. 20 I 



Ancient Observation. Computation. 



Saturn u i' o° — 15° i^ 0° 21' 



Moon a i^ 0° — 15° i^ 13° 41' 



Jupiter o (/ 15° — 30° 9^ 29° 37' 



Mars I 6^ 15° — 30° 6' 17° 22' 



Sun e 45 15° — 30° 4^16° 9' 



Venus (i y 0° — 15° -■• 2^ 29° 48' 



Mercury e 5^ 0° — 15° 5^ 4^^ 30' 



In the same year and on the same day the dekige came to an 

 •end according to the chronology of the Septuagint. The subject 

 has been discussed more in extenso in the writer's '' Unser Alpha- 

 bet," etc. Leipz. 1S34; "Unumstaesslicher Beweiss," etc. Leipz. 

 1S39 ; "Summary of Recent Discoveries," etc. N. Y. 1857. 



All these historical reports and infallible astronomical compu- 

 tations jDut it beyond question that our alphabet existed prior to 

 the deluge, that it was newly arranged by Noah, and the Egyp- 

 tian literature (originating ()G6 years after the deluge, in 2780 

 B.C., since Menes' arrival in Egypt) must have been derived from 

 the primitive alphabet of 25 letters, and not, as Ch. fancied, from 

 the primitive ideologic writing. It would have been impossible 

 to represent at least 10,000 Egyptian words by the instrumental- 

 ity of 630 ideologic figures. 



III. Is it true that Clement of Alexandria (Strom. 1. v. 4, p. 

 657, Potter) divides the Egyptian hieroglyphs into two classes, 

 viz. phonetic and ideologic ones? The particular passage reads 

 thus: "The pupils of the Egyptians learn the hieroglyphic 

 method of writing — ;^c >7 /^^^^ ^C^' ^M rwv r.pcbzcov azof^eicov 

 y,uptohO'fur^^ 'q ok a'jfj.6o/.r/.rj. Tv^^ ok (T'jfj.8o/.:x7j^ q iJ.kv xofJioAo- 

 'fz1xo.i y.o.zd. fiimacu, q de ojaTtep TpoTzr/uoz -jcpdiperac^ q ok o-uzcxph^ 

 aK):qyop€izat xazd zivac. alvtypouzP Ch. imagined aup6o).r/.6z 

 to signify ideologic, i.e. not phonetic. This is, however, a gross 

 blunder. The ancient Greeks never used the word ouix^oXtxbq, to 

 express ideologic — what, at present, passes for "symbolic." 

 — op^dAAzcu and ou/JAosiv are synonym.s ; accordingly aup6oAr/.6r 

 signifies syllabic. This is evident from the context as well as 

 from other testimonials ; for from the following words : some 

 hieroglyphs xopcoAoyzczac oca. zebu TVpcbzcuv azor^sUou, clearly 

 evidence that Clement took xuptoAOYzlu for pronounci?ig by means 

 •of the primitive (Noachian) alphabet. Now, the same word xopco- 



