216 Rev. Epwarp Hincks on the Number, Names, and Powers 
38. An unfledged bird (U 6; u 6) is generally admitted to be equivalent 
to the cerastes ; like it, it has only the consonantal powers of the other letters in 
this class. It is used in the papyrus in the word VA, or Val, ¢o bear, Coptic 
ge!, which is very common. In this word it is always followed by the eagle, 
which I take to be its expletive. Champollion gives this verb as written with the 
cerastes and the eagle, and with the wnfledged bird alone. He also gives a word 
signifying “hair,” composed of the unfledged bird, U 3, and its expletive, 
which I should read VU ; the Sahidic equivalent is &w, or gus. In the annals 
of Thothmos III., Lepsius, xii. 34, this character occurs with a consonant after 
it; it occurs also in the names of chiefs of the Khuta at Karnac; and in the pa- 
pyri it is used in several words. In these last instances it is always followed by 
a vertical bar, which, I presume, is equivalent to the other expletive, the eagle. 
I suppose that the vowel belonging to the word signifying “to bear’ was I, 
which might be expressed or understood, as in other instances ; hence Vi would, 
according to my notation, express the three forms Val, Va, and V, which are all 
in use. Ido not recollect to have met this character in any inscription earlier 
than that of Thothmos III., in the fourth period. I believe the cerastes was in 
the earlier ages used in the word signifying “to carry,” but cannot refer to any 
instance. 
39. A pair of uplifted arms (K2; k2) is used in all ages; but I am not 
sure that it was alphabetic till the third age. Its value is determined by the 
names of two African people, found at Karnac (figs. 165 and 166), which are ob- 
viously the ToxAcov and Kadaa of the Greek inscriptions of Axum and Aduli. 
In the former of these the three mouths are to be read LU; the triplication of a 
character being often equivalent to the addition of U, the third vowel, as its du- 
plication is to the addition of I. The eagle in this name seems to be an exple- 
tive, but this is not certain. This value is confirmed by the mode of writing the 
word, signifying “ a furnace,” on the sarcophagus of Seti I., which has sometimes 
a basin, K 1, prefixed to the present character and the mouth, which elsewhere 
constitute it alone. The word is identical with the Hebrew 72, Aur. It occurs 
with a vertical bar in the name of a country (fig. 167), which follows that of 
Khalay, fig. 19, in Pl, 25, 1. 1; the last syllable has been explained in the first 
part. I read it NeKTeR, but have not been able to identify it with any known 
city or country. From the mode in which it appears in this word, as well as in 
