220 Rev. Epwarp Hincks on the Number, Names, and Powers 
former as the seat of the affections. In some foreign words in the papyri, the 
arm follows this character in the manner of an expletive ; but, as I have not 
identified any of these words with Hebrew ones, I cannot be sure that it was not 
sounded asay. The character was used in all ages. 
42. A concave stone (115; h 5) is the ideographic representative of a moun- 
tain, or rather, as it appears to me, the hollow of a mountain, a cave or a pass at 
the top of a range of mountains.* The character, when thus used, is followed by 
a vertical line, equivalent, I believe, to a quail, with the determinative sign of 
stones, fig. 168. Champollion considered this equivalent to the Coptic Tusore, 
“a mountain ;” but I read it HU or HeV, regarding it as connected with cav-us, 
&c. That it was used alphabetically appears to me obvious from the word signi- 
fying “a cow,” already referred to (tig. 143), which I read WaH, connecting it 
with vacca ; and from that signifying “ wicked,” which consists of the character 
followed by two quails, representing the Coptic 9,00. Ihave never seen it used 
with an expletive ; but should presume that, if it had any, it would have the 
quail or vertical line. It was certainly used in the third age. 
I now come to characters, the value of which, as well as their alphabetic na- 
ture, admit of dispute. 
43. A pair of legs (13; 13), was supposed by Champollion to have the power 
of H; while Lepsius made it a T, and affirmed that it belonged to the later ages 
exclusively. It occurs in the word which I have represented in fig. 173, and 
which is used in steles of the third period as synonymous with fig. 174, which all 
admit to correspond with the Coptic 1, “to come ;”” at least, when the expletive 
is omitted, as it generally is. The two leaves, one of them standing on a pair of 
legs, are a modification of I 1, which was only used in this word. This is the first 
character in the name of the God of Medicine, which is transcribed Tuov@, and 
which signifies “welcome.” Now, in the steles referred to, fig. 173 is used 
precisely in this sense, as in Sharpe E. I. 17, 5, “ May * welcome’ be said to him 
by the Lords of Abydos!” For this we have in E. I. 78, 8, the form in fig. 174. 
Accordingly, I take the pair of legs to represent I, and the quai/ to be its exple- 
* What has been usually translated ‘‘ the solar mountain” is certainly the horizon; where, 
according to the Egyptian notions, the sun issued from, or went behind, a mountain, passing 
through a sort of gap at the top of it. 
