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which contain a considerable portion of matter common tothem. I will call one 
of them, which is dated in the thirteenth year of Amenemhe II, A, and the 
other, which is dated in the sixth year of Osortasen II., B. According to the 
chronology of the monuments, the former of these is twenty-five years older 
than the latter; but according to the strange system which Chevalier Bunsen 
has proposed, with a view to reconcile Eratosthenes and Manetho, the latter is 
four years older than the former. 
On collating these steles, I find in l. 10 of A the reading given in fig. 41, 
while in 1. 8 of B is that given in fig. 42. The eagle appears as the expletive of 
the ground plan of a house, in figs. 15, 30, and 39. In 1. 11 of A, I find fig. 
43, and in 1. 9 of B fig. 44. It will be proved in Part III. that the guai/ is the 
proper expletive of the eagle. The determinative sign added to this word in B 
could be no compensation for the omitted letter, supposing that it were anything 
more than an expletive. It implies that the word signifies a locality. It means 
‘*a gap,” or “mountain pass.” With a different determinative sign, the three 
bars denoting the plural, and an expletive after the first letter, as in fig. 45, it 
occurs Pl. 97, 1. 6, signifying “ planks.” The root signifies findo, as the Sahidic 
we, on the authority of which I supply the vowel, reading PuKA. This 
Sahidic word also signifies “a plank.’ In]. 13 of A we have fig. 46, as the 
past participle of the verb UB (as commonly read), “to purify ;” while in |. 10 
of B we have fig. 47. In the last form the two determinative signs are omitted, 
and the /eg, the complement of the peculiar letter, the vase emitting water, is 
substituted for them. This is in accordance with the received principles; but 
what I wish to draw attention to is the omission of the final /eaf in fig. 47, or 
rather its insertion in fig. 46. This is exactly parallel to what we have already 
seen in fig. 34. The participle is UBuT, ending with the consonant ; and the 
leaf is here, as there, an expletive. 
In the 9th line of A we have the word copied in fig. 48. This passage 
occurs on a stele of Mr. Harris’s, dated in the seventeenth year of Osortasen I. 
(Sharpe, 86, 1.6), and the word is written without the eag/e, as in fig. 49. The 
eagle is constantly used as the expletive of the preceding character, whatever it 
may be. In the 15th line of A, the name of certain panegyries is written as in 
fig. 50. On another stele of Mr. Harris’s, dated in the sixth year of Amenemhe 
II. (Sharpe, 104, |. 3), the eagle is omitted, as in fig. 51 ; the determinative sign 
