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now used as phonetic. So in Sharpe, E. 1.6, third period. The phonetic value of the 
eye is admitted on all hands to be Zri or 1; and the word must, therefore, be read 
MI. The pair of eagles is also used in a proper name which occurs on a stele 
in the British Museum, dated in the 6th year of Osortasen II. Its alphabetic use 
at this early period appears to me unquestionable ; like the preceding character, it 
had no expletive. 
4.6. A tooth (h G) occurs as an element in a considerable number of proper 
names and other words in the papyri. It is accompanied by the same unmeaning 
expletive, already noticed as accompanying the hierographic arm. The corres- 
ponding hieroglyph is always, I believe, used ideographically till a period much 
later than this, when it represented H in the preposition her, with (Ch. Gr. 
p- 472, zt. Tiberius). In early times it was used as a determinative sign after 
the word soVHe (Coptic o&9,€), for which it sometimes stood alone, and some 
other words. The hierograph before us is used in the Ritual and other late MSS. 
for the initial in the name of the God Har, which at an early period was written 
with the face, when not expressed symbolically by the hawk. From this it is fair to 
conclude that this was the value of the character in the age of the papyri ; and this 
conclusion is confirmed by the Coptic root, which appears to be akin to one of the 
words (fig. 178) which occurs Pap. Pl. 95, 1. 6. Dropping the expletive, I read this 
KoLHeT. The meaning is “clothing,” and I connect it with the Coptic xoAg,. 
47. A tusk (H 6), called by Chevalier Bunsen a bent stick, is admitted to 
have had the value H in the sixth and subsequent ages, when it was used in 
words where H 1 was used in earlier times.—See Champ. Gram., pp. 335, 471, 
473, 474. It is used, however, in the third period, if not before it, followed by 
T 4, in the name attached to the winged globe, which is so common in the sculp- 
tures ; and there is not the slightest reason for supposing that it had in this word 
any ideographic or syllabic import. Its origin is apparently the same as that of 
the last character. It is used as a determinative sign after the word noV He, “a 
tooth,” and other words signifying biting or chewing; and also after AV, 
“ivory” (Leps. xii. 16, e¢ al.), which seems to me conclusive as to what the cha- 
racter was intended to represent. Hence both this character and the preceding 
came to represent the final letter in the word NoVHe; as in the case of HoV, 
and the cerastes. I have never seen the hierographic form of this character, and 
have some suspicion that words written hieroglyphically with the ¢wsk would be 
