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written hierographically with the tooth ; but, having no proof that this is the case, 
I keep the two characters distinct. Iam not aware that the tusk had any ex- 
pletive. 
48, A vase in a stand (C 2; ¢2) has been valued as T by both Champollion 
and Chevalier Bunsen; solely, I believe, on account of the name of Cambyses 
being written with this character as its final on the Cosseir Road; whilea T 1 is 
used on a statue in the Vatican. I wish the reader to refer to what I have said 
on the long: serpent, No. 30, to which I consider the present character equiva- 
lent. It will appear clearly from what I have there said that this interchange is 
not conclusive ; and indeed the fact of the Greek transcription of the name being 
KapBvons, not KapBvrns, seems to neutralize all its force ; leading to the con- 
clusion that the true name was Kambuch, and that it would probably have been 
expressed in Hebrew by y115 with a Dagesh in the Beth.* The occasional omis- 
sion of the final sibilant is like the omissions of it which I have noticed under 
No. 30 (3). The equivalence of this letter to the Hebrew x appears from the 
transcriptions III., 6, 7, and from that noticed under No. 34. In two of these 
cases, as in the name of Cambyses, the Greek represents the character before us 
by a o; while in the third it has a 7. It is clearly represented by x in the word 
sigmifying “head,” which occurs repeatedly in the papyri, as Pl. 90, 1.6; con- 
sisting of this character twice, each followed by its expletive, the eagle, and at the 
end of the word a head for a determinative sign. This I represent by CoC; and 
it is obviously the Coptic xuwx. Another word in which it occurs (fig. 179) 
has been identified by Champollion with the Coptic 222: Tot, “asoldier.”” From 
the determinative signs, however, with which it is used, Pap. Pl. 11, 1. 10, from 
which the figure is taken, it is plain that it is the name of a foreign nation; and 
though it is possible that the Coptic name of a soldier may be derived from that 
of this people, which may have supplied the Egyptians wich the greater part of 
their mercenaries, I cannot admit it as certain. At any rate, the word, if thus 
originating, would probably have undergone corruption in the long interval 
between the time anterior to the twelfth dynasty, when the poem contained in 
* The name of Cambyses is written at Bisitun Aabz/i, that is, with the softened sound of ch. 
The corresponding Hebrew would, I presume, be 3122. This newly-ascertained fact is a strong 
confirmation of the value which I had previously assigned to this letter. 
