SEYFFARTH THE HIEROGLYPHIC TABLET OF POMPEIUM. 233 



the city of Mdyco (PI. xxxi. 438, b) ; p-ayAptoc,^ yo (mag), beatus 

 (PI. xxxi. 438, a) ; pny (emek), as the T.S. bears witness (1. ix.) 



See PI. xxxi. 459, a. G. omitted to mention by " " that 



he was unable to translate the groups 210 and 211. 



212, consisting of a knife and a beating arm, is to be spelled 

 ■krt ; for the latter, ^iTe, ferire, expresses /;/ and t (Nos. 205 & 

 193), and the knife, called copTe, mj (karath), culter, cutter, r. 

 ni3 (kur), N-13 (kara), 13 (kar, cjesor), cpH, (arare, fodere), expresses 

 kr in many words, e.g. nij (gerah), the corrupted ^ip, granum 

 (T.B. PI. xli.) ; in xupioq,^ tr-oiAc-epne, templum (see R.S. x.*36, 

 PI. xxxi. 440, a) ; in m3 (karath), s-opre, iy/alaTiT eod ai ^ dvaypa- 

 (pdxcoaav (T.S. xii, xxxvi. ; see PI. xxxi. 439,;^); in (tAcot, intes- 

 ■tina, Germ. Kald-aunen (T.B. xix. Tit. ; see PI. xxxi. 440, a) ; 

 in kr kr^ Heracleopolis (see PI. xxxi. 440, b)\ k \n '/^jTO^^ g-oiT, 

 -\Xi (kud), cetus (PI. xxxi. 440, b), etc. G. translates it "killed," 

 because the knife, ideologically, signifies " to kill." 



.218. See 135. G. brings out "they," in spite of the Egyptian 

 syntax. 



214. This group, as we have seen (Nos. 122 & 156) signifies 

 "a multitude of charms," but this general meaning does not agree 

 with the specific object of valleys and glens; wherefore the in- 

 volved letters mk kr probably refer to lop, rivers, particularly 

 because these works of the Creator are not mentioned elsewhere. 

 At least lop is the corrupted rop^ the name of the Nile being 

 Giris, i.e. river, as Plin. Diog. Perieg. v. 221, reports. The gut- 

 turals very often go over to the consonant v. See p. 203, 3, etc. 

 G., not caring about the names of the hieroglyphs, translates our 

 group by " many." 



215 signifies, as is well known, a dual, owing to the two os- 

 trich feathers. The latter, being followed by the word r\evuj'\- (the 

 constellation of Leo), L., by the instrumentalitv of his disciple 

 Gensler (Thebanische Tafeln d. Sternaufgaengeetc, Leipz. 1S72), 

 translates, " the two feathers of the giant," a wonderful new con- 

 stellation in our starry heavens. But, alas ! the feather, Avev^i, 

 expresses ja-a.^!! cubitus Leonis, as in Kircher Scala and all Coptic 

 ■dictionaries will be seen. Consequently L. ought to have trans- 

 lated, "the two Cubiti Leonis." G. knew that, but he could 

 not, of course, translate, " they killed many of my two feathers," 

 and thus he did not hesitate to change the dual into the plural. 



