SEYFFARTH THE HIEROGLYPHIC TABLET OF POMPEIUM. 2S3 



IV. Is it true that each hieroglyphic text consists half of ideo- 

 logic, half of alphabetic hieroglyphs? The afore-mentioned 

 TZfuozou (pvjdo^ seduced Ch. to state that ; and in his Egyptian 

 Grammar an illustrating plate will be found. However, the R. 

 S. and T. S. do not contain one ideologic hieroglyph. The very same 

 is the case with the Pompeian Tablet, as will be seen in the pre- 

 mises. It is an absurd imagination that the very same 630 hiero- 

 glyphs expressed in one place a simple letter, in others a whole 

 word ideologically. 



V. Is it true that regularly each hieroglyphic word is followed 

 by one or more ideologic figures indicating what class of things 

 the foregoing group or word belongs to.^ On this fallacious pre- 

 sumption, based upon the said misinterpretation of Clement, the 

 Dictionary and Grammar of Ch., those of B., and the numberless 

 translations of the Chts., are founded. And hence it resulted 

 that those dictionaries and translations contain scarcely one word 

 of truth. We refer to the facts mentioned under No. IV. in the 

 premises. 



VI. Is it true that no hieroglyphic figure expresses a syllable, 

 or is it true that regularly each of the 630 hieroglyphs signifies 

 the consonantal syllable contained in its name.^ Ch. from his first 

 to his last work taught that no hieroglyph expressed a syllable, 

 as the numerous passages quoted in the writer's Grammatica 

 yEgyptiaca, Gotha, 1855, pp. xvii. xviii., evidence. The answer 

 of this question will be found on the Rosettana which contains 

 490 syllabic hieroglyphs, on the T. S. containing 1340 syllabic 

 figures, on the Pompeian slab with its 377 syllabic images, as we 

 have seen, pp. 260-68. Everybody will see with his own eyes 

 that all these 2207 syllabic hieroglyphs express the two or three 

 consonants contained in the respective names of the hieroglyphs. 

 Since then, on an average, eveiy hieroglyphic inscription con- 

 tains 60 syllabic figures in 100 hieroglyphs, whilst Ch. constantly 

 denied the existence of syllabic hieroglyphs, it is natural that nei- 

 ther he nor his followers could translate any entire hieroglyphic 

 inscription without manifesting absurdities, as the Pompeian Ta- 

 blet, in the premises, abundantly substantiates. 



VII. Is it true, what Ch. taught, that the language of the an- 

 cient Egyptians was the modern Coptic, or else was it not rather 

 a Hebrew dialect.^ Josephus calls the language, subject to the 



