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tive. In this word, the character may be regarded as ideo-phonographic ; but in 
the age of the papyri I find two instances of its being used alphabetically. The 
name of an Asiatic people is written indifferently with this character and with I 2; 
compare the lists of the prisoners of Amenotp IIL., Seti I., and Rameses II. The 
true reading appears to be K 3 (N11), 12,or3(U 1); the second and fourth cha- 
racters being expletives ; but the copies that have been published are, some of 
them, incorrect. Again, the poems in the Sallier MS., No. 2, and the Anastasi 
MS., No. 7, are all followed by a word consisting of this character, u 1, s 1, pale 
and u 1, which appears to signify “an end.” I read it ISeP, taking the second 
and last characters for expletives. The use of the character as a constituent in 
this word can only be accounted for by regarding it as alphabetic; and if it were 
so in this age, I must, on the principles previously laid down, admit it to have 
been so in the third age, where it is used with an expletive. 
44. A pair of quails (14; 14) sometimes represents wv, as in the word sig- 
nifying “‘ wicked,” cited under No. 42; but it occurs in several other words 
where this value is scarcely, if at all, admissible. On the authority of two words 
I suppose that it was used to express I. One of these words has been already 
cited under No. 40, see fig. 171, compared with fig. 170. The other is the fe- 
minine noun, signifying “a way,” which has been referred to under No. 25, It 
is written in one of the papyri (Pl. 20, 1.8), as in fig. 175; while in the stele, 
Sharpe, E. I. 78, which is of the third age, the wo quails are omitted, which 
could not have been the case had they represented more than one vowel; and in 
the sculptures at Medinet Habu the two eaves are used in place of them, as in fig. 
141. I read the word in every instance W7, not Wau or Wauu. Two quails 
occur together on a stele in the Louvre (Leps. ix), which is of the second age ; 
but I cannot explain the word where they occur, and have no proof that here, or 
elsewhere before the age of the papyri, they constituted a single character ; 
though I think it highly probable that they did. This character had no expletive. 
45. A pair of eagles (1 5; 15) was used in the word signifying “to see,” 
from a very early period, and appears to express a single letter, which cannot well 
be any other than J. Indeed, the characters having this value are all pairs. The 
word occurs in an inscription of the second period, E. I. 38, 11, written as in fig. 
177. Elsewhere the two last characters are omitted; the eye, which was at first a 
determinative, placed irregularly, for convenience of grouping (cf. fig. 74), being 
