SEYFFARTH ORIGINAL EGYPTIAN NAMES OF PLANETS. 435 



"the lord of the Triacontaeteris," must have been born in _ 1820, 

 i.e. 46 years after the departure of the Israelites. In the same 

 way the birth-year of Ptolemteus Epiphanes, "the lord of the Tri- 

 acontaeteris," is fixed, viz. the year 210 B.C. 



By the way, it will interest the reader that, four years ago, an 

 unopened catacomb near Thebes was discovered, which, as the 

 papyrus deposited in the sarcophagus evidenced, contained the 

 well preserved mummy of the wife of the same king Horus, born 

 in 1820 B.C. That papyrus, measuring 40 feet in length, was sold 

 to an American traveler, who transmitted a number of photo- 

 graphs to the Smithsonian Institution, and thence to me. This 

 ancient manuscript, at present nearly 3600 years old, is the oldest 

 now known copy of the Sacred Egyptian records, and the only 

 one of which the age is incontrovertibly fixed. It contains in 

 many places the name of our king Horus and that of the queen Ma- 

 tehemoth (Gratiosa). The historical part of the scroll has been 

 translated and communicated to the assembled members of the 

 American Oriental Society in New York city. See its Proceed- 

 ings of October, 1S77, p. xxvi., and the N. Y. paper "The World," 

 Oct. 26, 1S77. I hope to be able to publish the original text of 

 the said papyrus together with my commentary in the next vol- 

 ume of these Transactions. It is, however, to be lamented that 

 this very valuable Egyptian antiquity has for the price of %6oo 

 been sold to the French National Museum in the Louvi-e, where 

 it will crumble into dust, provided the Champollionists will not 

 abandon their master's theory, and not either publicly or clandes- 

 tinely appropriate my key, that " regularly each hieroglyph ex- 

 presses syllabically the consonants contained in its name." 



In conclusion, we add the following two planetary configura- 

 tions, but without discussing the specialties, the latter having been 

 explained in the premises. 



3. Planetary Configuration of Ptolemy Epiphanes^ of the year —202, 

 March 2J^th. 



This astronomical inscription, found in a chapel of the said 

 king at Philae, and copied by Wilkinson, has been represented in 

 Young's " Hieroglyphics," PI. 66. 



No. I, on the left hand side, is the familiar Phtha, Mars, united 



