202 Rev. Epwarp Hincxs on the Number, Names, and Powers 
grounds for suspecting that it had, and no positive proof to the contrary.* The 
hand was in use in the first age ; and had for its expletive the pair of oblique 
lines, which may have been in this case a sign of duplication, as the Coptic name 
of the hand is ToT. 
29. The question which arises respecting the guadrant or knee (Q 1; q 2), 
is similar to that which respects the hand. Is it equivalent to the basin, as it has 
been considered by Chevalier Bunsen and others; or is it a strengthened letter 
equivalent to the Hebrew p, and the Arabic (? In this instance I adopt the lat- 
ter alternative ; I am induced to do so by the transcription II. 9, and by I. 3 and 
4, though these are of a later date. I admit that the transcription III. 4, would 
lead to an opposite conclusion ; namely, that the Egyptians did not distinguish 
between the > and p; but we are to recollect that this is the name of a town far 
removed from Palestine, mentioned once only in the Bible, and that in one of the 
later books; and that, though it is written in this place with 3, it is written in 
Arabic with (s. I cannot allow this doubtful testimony to weigh against the 
clear ones furnished by the names of two Egyptian Kings, and a common Syriac 
word, in all of which the characters before us represents p; while, except in the 
name wwdD72, it never represents 2. Besides, I have never found this character 
interchanged with the basin, or with any of its known homophones. I grant that 
further evidence of the value of the character would be desirable; but in the 
meanwhile no harm can result from writing for it Q. Its expletive was the eagle, 
and it was used in the first age, on the tomb of Teta. JI allude to the word 
QeLS, burial. The character which occurs in the word for “ bread,’? and which 
has been supposed to be this, is an ideograph, representing a loaf: That word 
should be read NeT, the initial /eaf being, for the most part, omitted. 
*Tn the interval between the writing and the printing of this passage, my doubts as to the 
perfect equivalence of the hand to the bent rope and semicircle haye been almost entirely re- 
moved. 
+ Since this was written I have observed that the name of an Asiatic country is written, Pap. 
Pl. 51, 1. 4, QsHaQ, with this character at the beginning and end; and ona stele in the Louvre, of 
the age of Thothmos III, KaHaK, with K 1. I cannot identify this name with any known one; and 
indeed the only conjecture which appears to me at all plausible is, that it represents Khaq, Gk, 
which I have, I think, seen somewhere as a name of Tartary. In the Papyrus, this people are 
joined with the Moskhush and three other nations (one of which, however, i8 the Nahasu, or 
