SEYFFARTH THE HIEROGLYPHIC TABLET OF POMPEIUM. 239 



1st N. E. Nome." Every sane reader will now understand that 

 Nos. 255 and 256 grammatically signify the bladder, " the vessel 

 for emitting water." 



257. See 94. G. prudently omitted to mark by that he 



could not explain the water. 



258. See 353. This figure again signifies "not" according 

 to G. 



259. Everyone perceives the figures in No. 259 to contain a 

 synonyme of the group 254, involving the notion " I created." 

 Indeed this roasted goose, called after the root £7rrw, stzw, e(po), 

 -assure^ expresses the name of a king on the Berlin papyrus No. 



1558, and the Turin Maneto mentions the same king of the 5th 

 Dynasty, translated ^' Oovo^ (r. " Oorvo^). See PI. xxxii. 443, b. 

 Peyron correctly translates : wt n tofir, fat of the goose. In short, 

 our group signifies oonT-i, I combined. G., on the contrary, 

 makes it read "(not) I feared," perhaps because all geese fear to 

 be roasted. 



260. The gander, as we have so often seen, called ucii-ecooc, 

 furnished crono, the Greek Zcovv]^ the girdle. Comp. PI. xxx. 

 No. 423, b. G. takes this goose for " difficulty," probably by 

 means of an unknown Mexican puzzle. Besides, he forgot to 



indicate by that he could not interpret the following group 



(gut, ile). 



261. misrepresented by B. by omitting the article ne. obviously 

 represents gut, ile, Sht (colum), accompanied with the suflix k 

 (thy). Hence the same figure expresses the constellation Serpen- 

 tarius, astevT-o'Ckix (i.e. the catcher of the two serpents). See PI. 

 xxxii. 444, b. 



262. See 25S, 253, etc. Again G. translates " not." 



263 is apparently a synonyme of Nos. 259, 254, 241, and hence 

 we obtain the word Te6, fingere, or Tb^-ro, proferre. For the hill 

 TA-TT, in (thaf), expresses tb. See Nos. 164, 170, 208. G. imag- 

 ined this hill, either alone or copulated with the following cham- 

 ber, to signify "I obeyed"; but, his dictionary not yet being 

 published, nobody is able to tell on what basis this chimera rests. 

 Besides, he again prudently omitted to indicate by dots that he 

 failed to translate the following three words. 



264. See 146. 



265. Since the knife, mD (karath), expressed the correspond- 



