148 Rey. Epwarp Hincxs on the Number, Names, and Powers 
instances in which the expletive character is not a vowel, or in which different 
. vowels are attached as expletives to the same word, written with different, but 
homophonous letters; or in which the expletive vowel cannot be regarded as 
forming a part of the word, consistently with its known pronunciation. I will 
select a few instances of each of these three classes. 
And, first, we have already seen that the /eaf, which, according to the re- 
ceived alphabet, is an A, has for its expletive an ideographic character. This is 
frequently found to follow it in purely Egyptian words. I will only mention 
one (fig. 30), which occurs repeatedly in the papyri; among other places, Pl. 94, 
]. 4. This word means “stalls,” such as cattle were placed in; and there can 
be no doubt that it is a pure Egyptian word. It has for its Coptic representa- 
tive 09,1, Ohi, caula, and as a verb, stare. The corresponding verb, with which 
it is connected as the Latin stabulwm, is found in the old language. On the 
sarcophagus of Nectanebes (miscalled Amyrteus), in the British Museum, 
(Sharpe, E. I. 29), it, is written as in fig. 31, both the séting figure and the 
eagle being omitted. The latter is the known expletive of the plan of a house, 
as in fig. 15. In this instance, it might, perhaps, be contended that the character 
following the /eaf was intended to give it the power of O. Champollion attri- 
buted this use to it in foreign proper names; but when I come to consider the 
value of this character in the third part of the paper, I will shew that he was 
completely mistaken on that point; indeed it is evident that in the name already 
cited (fig. 17), the /eaf with the sitting figure represents A or E, and not O. 
To remove this objection, however, I will give another instance, in which 
nothing of this sort can be pretended, inasmuch as the expletive character is a 
consonant. The chair-back, or whatever it is which represents S, has for its 
expletive the semicircle, its name as a letter being Set. Now, this combination 
is repeatedly used for the simple letter S$, in purely Egyptian words. By itself 
it is used as the pronoun of the third person singular feminine; which was pro- 
perly S alone, as on the tomb in the British Museum of the fourth dynasty, the 
great Karnac obelisk of the eighteenth, and in innumerable other instances. — I 
will, however, shew that there are instances, too numerous to be attributable to 
mistake, of the expletive semicircle being added to this pronoun. To prevent the 
possibility of misapprehension, I first observe that I'am fully aware of the fact 
which Champollion mentions, that Set is used, both with and without the three 
