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expressed K. That it corresponded to the Hebrew > appears from transcrip- 
tions II. 3, 6, 8; III. 1; IV. 9; as well as from the correspondence of the prono- 
minal affix, which this letter represents, with the Hebrew 7 ; and of the pronoun 
of the first person, aNeK, with the Hebrew .23N. That it represented the hard 
sound of this letter when dageshed may be inferred from its being used to express 
the Hebrew ) in transcription II. 5, which a letter with the power of kh could 
scarcely be; from its being used to express the first letter of the name of the 
Persian king KauBvons ; and from the transcriptions which Herodotus gives of 
the names of Egyptian kings, in which it, or a known homophone of it, occurs, 
viz. SaBaxav, Vappnrixos, and Nexés. The transcriptions of Herodotus, 
whose informant was a Theban, are much more to be depended on than those of 
later writers. The expletive of this letter was the eagle. 
21. A sieve (X. 1; x. 1) was used in the first age, being the initial letter in 
the royal name found in the great pyramid, which Herodotus represents by 
Xéow. Its value, as equivalent to the Hebrew n, appears from transcriptions 
I, 2, and IV. 7, as well as from this Greek transcription, and from certain Coptic 
equivalents which have been already noticed, in which it is represented sometimes 
by gj, SH, and sometimes by 9, H, at Thebes, and 5, KH, at Memphis. The 
latter harsh sound, if it were the original power of the letter, might be softened 
into the two former; but neither of the two former could be corrupted into both 
the others. The expletive of the steve was the pair of oblique lines. 
I have considered these twenty-one characters in the order in which they are 
found in Chevalier Bunsen’s alphabet. I agree with himas to their powers, as he did, 
for the most part, with Champollion ; and I cannot conceive the possibility of any 
person seriously disputing any of them. I now pass to those as to which a doubt may 
reasonably be entertained, whether the values heretofore assigned them are cor- 
rect ; and I will endeavour to remove this doubt, either by adducing new argu- 
ments to establish the values given to them, or, as will more frequently be the 
case, by shewing that their true values were different. The remaining characters 
of the Chevalier’s alphabet are eleven, and I do not feel it necessary to consider 
them in the precise order in which they occur there, though I shall do so for the 
most part. 
I begin with the sort of plant which is used on the Rosetta stone, and other 
monuments subsequent to this, to represent M. Of its power there can be no 
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