5 
of the Letters of the Hieroglyphic Alphabet. 17 
of the reign of Thothmos III. In other places in that inscription it is written 
with the determinative sign of water, the last character in fig. 15, before that of 
country. 
3. ayw, Shinoar, Gen. xiv. 1, [Zevvaap, LXX.; Ziyyapa, Dio; =~; 
Suyar]; fig. 110, Pl. 96, 1. 3, saNukaRu. In H.1. 5, No. 54, the word occurs 
without the second and fourth expletives. On the contrary, in an older inscrip- 
tion from Solab in Nubia, these are retained, while the first and third are 
omitted; and in the inscription of Thothmos III., just mentioned, the fourth 
expletive is alone found. The reed is occasionally substituted for the initial 
character. 
4. wxO31D, Karkh’mish, Is. x. 9 [Kepxnovov, Zos. i 3, girgisiya]; fig. 16, 
Pl. 27, 1. 6, ka RukaMasxa. 
5. Arupia, Dio, 68, 28; Arovpia, Strabo, 16; uel, athir, Abulfeda, who 
gives it as the name of an ancient city on the Tigris, fig. 111, Pl. 125, 1. 14, 
otURu. Perhaps we should read the double line, which would be the expletive 
of the hand, for the lituws. I believe, however, the latter was intended. The 
papyrus is here damaged. At Karnak, in this age, according to Sir G. Wilkin- 
son, it is written without any character in this place, and without the last exple- 
tive. Ina later inscription at Karnak (zt. Shishonk I.), the dowble line is used 
after the hand, and the lion replaces the mouth. The name which occurs in the 
first kind of Cuneatic writing, and which I have represented in fig. 112, may 
represent either this name or the following, if, indeed, they be not identical. 
The power of the second Cuneatic letter is in dispute. Beer, the best authority, 
represents it by ¢; it had probably the sound of our s in pleasure.* The other 
characters are A-URA. 
6. Ww, Ashiir, Numb. xxiv. 22 [Acovp-ia, Herod. I. 194, Ptol.] In PI. 
57, |. 6, a poetical address to the King of Egypt contains this passage: «* Thy 
name is exalted as that of kataRuNul (or, by analogy of other transcriptions, 
yp), the chief of OsaRu (fig. 113). 
7. abn, Xelv-on, Ez. xxvii. 18 [XaAvB-ov, Strabo; —l>, Xdlab]; fig. 19, 
Pl. 27, 1. 6, X1Rubu ; compare also fig. 21, Pl. 97, 1. 1, Xaru. 
* I am now (January, 1847) satisfied that Jacquet’s value of this letter, th, is the true one. 
