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and the H, which commences the next; probably, indeed, as an intimation that 
the words were closely connected in sense, and might be considered as one com- 
pound. They signify ‘a long continuance of time.” The sular disk, inserted 
between the two ¢wisted ropes, is an ideograph or determinative sign, placed 
there, instead of at the end of the word, with a view to form a group more 
agreeable to the eye. 1 read the whole TeNHaH, supplying the last vowel 
from the Sahidic 9,29, Again, in fig. 75, we have a syllabic sign completed in 
the first manner, by prefixing all the letters SaKHT; and in fig. 76 we have it 
completed in the fourth manner, it being now used in place of the initial letter 
S. This character represents a double net, and the word before us signifies “to 
catch with a net;” it is probably the Sahidic cewT. 
Besides the five methods of completing syllabic signs which have been already 
mentioned, and which are all used with classes of phonoglyphs, there are some 
remarkable methods occasionally used, which I deem it right to mention in this 
place. The palm-shoot is a syllabic sign for Tel or Ter; it is sometimes com- 
pleted in the first manner, by prefixing the semicircle, T, and the mouth, R; 
and frequently a /eaf is added, as in fig. 77. This leaf here replaces the vertical 
bar, as the expletive of the mouth. This combination is used not only by itself, 
to express the word TeR, “a season,” but as the last syllable of a great variety 
of words, such as NeTeR, “a god,” HaTeR, “a horse,” &c. But, what is 
more remarkable, the semicircle is sometimes omitted, the preceding letter being 
placed over the mouth, in the place which the semicircle here occupies. Such 
is the case in the remarkable word, fig. 78, which is of frequent occurrence. 
The first character is ideographic, and signifies ‘‘the earth,” or “land ;’ the 
next is a form of M used before T and R; the palm-sprout requires that a T 
should be supplied.* The final character is the determinative for Egypt and its 
parts, and it is doubled to denote the dual number. This was probably formed 
by the addition of I to the singular. The whole group is then to be read TO 
* The palm sprout is not essential to this word, though it removes ambiguity. The names of 
the goddesses representing Upper and Lower Egypt are formed of the group in fig. 84, followed 
by the reed and the papyrus plant respectively—the two plants which symbolized the two 
Egypts. In this group there is no transposition. The semicircle is the sign of the feminine 
gender, and the initial character must be read Mut, forming the name MuTeR. ‘This character, 
a sort of hoe, when placed horizontal, as it is here, expresses indifferently Met or Mer, alone, or 
