SEYFFARTH THE HIEROGLYPHIC TABLET OF POMPEIUM. 2S5 



IX. Has Ch's system been sanctioned or refuted by its fruits? 

 Let us see some examples. The grammatical interpretation of 

 the Pompeian Tablet brings to light that the great Cht. Brugsch 

 could translate only two hieroglyphs, and that G's version of the 

 same text, except the same two figures, contains downright non- 

 sense from the first to the last word. Is it not ridiculous in the 

 extreme that Italian cities and localities and names once existed 

 like: Sechet, Samtati-taf-necht, Shatet-samtati, Afanch, Sechet, 

 Essenem, Suten-senem, Uatur, Unnofer, Chnum? 



In Ch's Gram., p. 294, we read that a passage of the T. B., 

 which says that "a house existed in the valley, 30 cubits long, 15 

 cubits broad, and 4 cubits high," means a^serpent of the same 

 dimensions According to the same work, the mummy is the 

 " non plus ultra of envelopes"; wherefore it must signify "cloth." 

 A piece of meat, Ch, says, is a part of the whole, and conse- 

 quently it signifies that " the son is a part of the paternal sub- 

 stance." See many other examples in my Or. ^Eg. p. xxiii. 



De Rouge's "Memoire" informs that in Moses' time afire-snake 

 (habitans in igne suo), called '•^Anhehu" existed in Egypt. 



In the same year, 1851, Brugsch's " Inscriptio Rosettana" ap- 

 peared, which contains 700 words, but only 12 of them correctly- 

 translated by him. See Leipziger Repertorium, 1S53, p. 364. 



So far as the publications of the Cht. L. are concerned, we 

 have already noticed (p. 277) that he could not translate a great deal 

 of the T. S., that he misunderstood the most common groups, and 

 procreated numberless monster-words occurring in no language 

 of the world. It will be instructive to add a few examples from 

 the T. S., explained by two Chts., Lepsius and Reinisch, for the 

 purpose of proving that a system according to which the very 

 same hieroglyphs and groups can be very differently spelled and 

 translated, cannot be the key to the Egyptian literature. 



L. 

 suten 

 aft 



machui 

 niau 

 maret 

 toui 

 suh 

 tutu 

 tua 



K. 



rus 



chub 



machura 



pauma 



hap 



ruschub 



tur 



churu 



sa 



