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chest, or stomach ;” for on the sarcophagus of Seti I. (Sharpe, 63, 62), the de- 
ceased king is addressed by the fourth of the genii of Amente in these words: 
«Tam thy son, Iam come to attend on thee,....... to bring thee thy heart, 
to put it in its place in thy chest.” Again, Pap. Pl. 14, 1. 4, 5, it clearly denotes 
the receptacle of food: ‘¢ His victories are his arms for filling his stomach ; as the 
bees eat of their labours.” In both these instances, the present character, which 
must, I think, have represented some object,—I cannot conjecture what,—the 
name of which was identical with that of the chest, or torse, is used for the words 
in Italics. Hence it is used by synecdoche for the whole body or person, as im 
the common expression, ‘his son of his body,” i.e. “his own son.” From the 
false notion which Champollion entertained as to the primary meaning of this 
word, he identified it with the Coptic o«w; whence he assigned to the charac- 
ter the alphabetic value ow or us. In general, however, he treated it as an ideo- 
glyph, dividing the words in which it occurred into two. It is scarcely to be con- 
ceived into how many absurd mistranslations Rosellini and he were led by this 
one error. Lepsius rightly identified the group consisting of this character, R 1, 
and T 4, with the Coptic Dpoti, “children.” Champollion had imagined it to 
be put, “a race ;” taking the initial character for a determinative sign trans- 
posed, and regarding the actual determinative sign as a separate word, “ of 
children.” But Lepsius supposed the mouth, which follows this character in this 
word, to be its necessary complement ; whereas I regard the character as alpha- 
betic. It is, in fact, found preceding other letters, as in the word x 3, t 2, u4(ul), 
XoTeV, “to kill,” which is evidently the Coptic Huot e8; and in x3,s2,12, XeSI, 
an epithet of the chief of the Khuta, and also of Kush and other hostile people. 
I identify this with the Coptic Dict or Doct, lassus, fatigatus, and translate it 
“‘wretched.”’ It is evidently an epithet implymg contempt and hatred, which 
may well be derived as I suppose. Champollion’s translation of this word as 
two, “the wicked race,” is inadmissible, because in the Sallier Papyrus, No. 3 
(Pl. 32, 7), it is distinctly used as an epithet of the chief, “the wretched chief of 
the vanquished Khuta.” In these two words it appears to me impossible to sup- 
pose that an R was to be introduced after this initial character. Another word 
which commences with this character appears to me to contain its expletive. It is 
X 3, y1,q1, ul, which occurs Pap. Pl. 14, 3, 4, followed by the symbolic eye, or the 
ideograph which on the Rosetta stone is translated iepov Koopov, and other deter- 
