172 Rev. Epwarp Hincxs on the Number, Names, and Powers 
names of places in Palestine; and thirdly, proper names of places out of Pales- 
tine. A few of these are not found in Hebrew at all; and it is obvious that, of 
those which are, the Hebrew spelling is much less to be depended on than in the 
case of words of the two former classes. As this is, in my opinion, the most 
important kind of data for determming the exact powers of the phonoglyphs 
that we possess, and as it has not hitherto been examined (for most of the words 
now given have been, for the first time, identified by me, in consequence of my 
discovery of the nature of expletives; and most of the others have been supposed 
to be spelled so improperly, in consequence of the expletives that appeared 
among their letters, that no dependence could be placed on them as transcrip- 
tions), I will produce the principal foreign words, of which transcriptions appear 
in the papyri or hieroglyphical texts of the same age, and of which I am able to give 
the transcriptions in Hebrew, Greek, or modern Arabic. I write a for the Hebrew 
n, 2 for y, and g for p. The Roman letters, which immediately follow the rete- 
rence to the place where the Egyptian word occurs, express its reading according 
to Chevalier Bunsen’s alphabet. I use x for his x, and sx for cx, the contraction of 
which he uses as a letter. The expletives are written ina smaller character than the 
other letters, and an e of the same size with the expletives, implies that a vowel has 
to be supplied. I express, by capital letters, twenty-one of the thirty-two letters 
of Chevalier Bunsen’s alphabet, and some of the letters used in place of them in 
certain syllables, as to the power of which I think that no doubt can be entertained. 
One of the remaining letters in the alphabet was not, so far as I am aware, in use 
in the age of the papyri. The powers of the other ten are open for further 
inquiry. 
Hebrew Words.—Not Names of Places. 
II.—1. dyna, Basal, Judg. vi. 25 [Phoen. 9y2, in comp. Bad, Bor]; fig. 
100, Pl. 26, 1.8. baRu. The expletive is, however, omitted at Karnac (at. 
Rameses II.), Ch. Gr. 495; and accordingly Chevalier Bunsen reads the name 
Bal. This ass-headed deity seems to have been identified by the Egyptians with 
their Set or Typhon. 
2. MaNwy, sashtoreth, 1 Kings, 1. 5, and sashtdroth, Judg. ii. 13 [ Phen. 
moanmvwy, Astarte, Cic. de Nat. Deor. 3, 23; Aovraprn, Luc. de Dea Syra; in 
comp. acrapt]; fig. 24, Pl. 87, 1. 4, aSTaRuTa. 
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