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299 represents the act of sitting, ^e^ci, related with mc^c, sedi- 

 ■mentum, and therefore it expresses ms, e.g. on the London bilin- 

 gual coffin (PI. xxxii. 44S, b) and on the R. S. vii. viii., where 

 it is translated ^bo.vov^ image, referring to the root mhuj, csdere, 

 yon (masa), cjedere lapides, the latter erroneously referred by 

 •Gesenius to the root yoj (nasa), evellit. This is the root of 

 mason, related with xnD (macha), im^r]. The added scourge, 

 called KAmi, r. ^^. ^i^^, T\z {kip), gives imago caesa, image. 

 O., not knowing what to do with sitting figure, omitted to mark 

 its place by 



300. See PI. i. Nos. a i, a 5. According to Ch. it signifies 

 ■*' Chnum," whicli, however, is no Egyptian word at all. 



301. See Nos. 142, 59, 19, 60, 47, 36. 



302. See No. 60. G. imagined km km to signify "the double 

 Hand" instead of the army. 



803. See Nos. 10, 64, 43. G. translates "Har"; but, alas, the 

 Egyptians never used ideologic figures, and the sparrow-hawk 

 expressed kr and not " har." 



304 represents thrashed straw, to^, a. to*, related with ^'-n. a. 

 T]n (duk), triturare (T.B. PI. xli. b), and hence it expresses very 

 •often tk, e.g. to.^, a. t^vr, provincia, and tojr, textura. Germ. 

 Tuch. G. discovered these two figures to signify " horizon "— 

 of course, enigmatically— instead of the northern and southern 

 •countries. 



305. See 295. The letters kr, contained in the name of the 

 bowl, obviously refer to cpo, vincere, owing to the following 

 word. G. takes it again for " lord." 



306. See 204. The letters kr furnish ni" (kar), the Coptic 

 o-opcr, i.e. ccpG-op, persequi, and the added figure of a man 

 forms the personal substantive inimicus, hostis- The anti-em- 

 peror to Vespasian, as is known, was Sabinus, who was defeated 

 «oon after the arrival of the former in Italy. Hence it is evident 

 that the Pompeian Tablet must have been written in the first 

 years of Vespasian, 72 or 73 a.c. G. translates our group ■' all 

 things," and it is news that " all things" belonged to the class of 

 human beings. 



307. Josephus testifies that " 1 Woe, Manetho's shepherds, sig- 

 nifies both reges pastores and servi pastores. Indeed fiwR means 



