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reference, even to those who are ah-eady possessed of the 

 original works which contain them. 



In order to avoid the introduction of arbitrary hypotheses and 

 erroneous conclusions, no commentaries, nor even any particular 

 nomenclature, will be admitted into this series of hieroglyphics. 

 It was indeed in contemplation to have begun the work with a 

 copy of the Inscription of Rosetta, subdivided, and having the 

 parallel passages of the three texts printed together, according 

 to the arrangement of the anonymous translation published in 

 the Archseologia ; bui it has been thought more advisable to 

 defer this comparison, in the hope that some of the duplicates of 

 the stone, which have remained more entire, may speedily be 

 obtained from Egypt. 



The general subjects of the Hieroglyphical Inscriptions, which 

 they contain, may be collected from an article on Egypt, which 

 is about to appear in the Supplement to the Encyclopcedia Bri- 

 tannica. The first six exhibit a tolerably perfect specimen of the 

 manuscripts frequently found with mummies, and which always 

 contain a series of homages, addressed to the different deities in 

 the name of the deceased : the next subject consists of friezes 

 brought from Egypt, and now in the British Museum, compared 

 with another fragment of the same series found in the ruins of 

 Rome. The colossal head, which has lately been presented to 

 the British Museum in the names of Mr. Salt and Mr. Burckhardt, 

 occupies the greater part of the 10th plate ; and the subjects deli- 

 neated in the five following plates are more or less immediately 

 connected with this figure, exhibiting either the name, which is 

 still distinguishable in the inscription on the back, or that of 

 Memnon, whom the head has sometimes been supposed to repre- 

 sent, or some other name approaching very near in its form to 

 one or the other of these two. 



The execution of the work is so arranged as to afford the sub- 

 scribers the greatest possible benefit for their contributions ; and 

 not only the whole of the money collected will be employed for de- 

 fraying the expenses, but some further voluntary assistance may be 

 expected from individuals; a nobleman, who has travelled in 



