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3. The letters APAIN correspond to those in fig. 88, the additions to repre- 
sent vowels being in hollow types. 
4. The name pwiw, 1 Kings, xi. 40, is represented hieroglyphically, as in 
fig. 95. It contains a letter which is not represented in the Hebrew, but which 
appears in Manetho, according to Africanus, who gives Zeowyyx-ts. Eusebius 
makes the name Deowyxwors. 
5. The word inn, Gen. xli. 2, is admitted by the best lexicographers to be 
an Egyptian one. “ The meadow,” or “marshy ground” near the Nile is 
expressed as in fig. 96, Pap. Pl. 75, 1. 3. It is pretty evident that the two first 
letters of the Hebrew word correspond to the eagle and sreve. The duplication 
of these characters is irrelevant to our present inquiries, as is the meaning of the 
two determinative signs at the end. 
6. The only other Hebrew transcription of an Egyptian word which any one 
has pretended to identify is wD, Gen. xli. 45, which has been supposed to be 
equivalent to fig. 97, read Pete. This, however, is very questionable ; for, to say 
nothing of the vowels of the Hebrew word, which are thus left without any 
thing to represent them, I am not aware that there is any evidence that this element 
appeared in the formation of Egyptian names till at least 1500 years after the 
time of Joseph. The true equivalent of this element, and the resolution of 
ompnn, Jer. xlvi. 14, into its elements, are the chief desiderata in this class of 
data. 
The transcriptions of words in a foreign language in Egyptian phonoglyphs 
are far more valuable than those of Egyptian words in foreign characters. By 
help of transcriptions of Greek words made in the three last ages, the alphabet 
which we now have was formed, and it is by transcriptions of an earlier age that 
it must be completed and rectified. Transcriptions in records of the standard 
time and place are evidence of primary authority. It is no sound objection 
against them that the pronunciation of the original words in the foreign language 
is itself doubtful. A sufficient number of the words transcribed occurs in dif- 
ferent languages, to remove all force from this objection; for by comparing the 
words as they are differently represented in those languages, we may confidently 
infer their correct pronunciation. It may be said, indeed, that the pronuncia- 
tion of the words may have altered since the transcription into Egyptian was 
made, and before they were committed to writing in the foreign language. But 
