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as a more ancient form than osniri. I know that you have 
looked in vain for any well marked coincidence of a Greek and 
a hieroglyphical name of a Roman emperor, although I believe 
you were persuaded of the very late date of many of the hiero- 
glyphics in question; but it may be much easier to say yes ot 
no to the truth of a single interpretation, than to decide exactly 
what the interpretation ought to be; and I hope very shortly to 
be able to show you such of the names of the emperors, as Mr. 
Champollion thinks he has made out: I observe, indeed, that 
some of them are such as I have already noted, from your draw- 
ings, as probably belonging to Roman Emperors. It will be na- 
tural to look in the first place for that of Adrian on the very valu- 
able and interesting little sarcophagus of ‘* Phutus,” which has 
been sent by Mr. Grey to the British Museum: in the ¢ursory view 
which I was able to take of it, however, I saw no name that 
could have been so construed, though the goddess Buto, or 
Bhuto, appears as forming a part of the name of the deceased. 
The ‘‘ Arsinoe” of the Article Ecypr, according to Mr. Cham- 
pollion, ought to be read Autocrator: I had satisfied myself that 
it was a name not older than the Ptolemies, and I thought I 
had reason to call it Arsinoe; and this name was annexed to 
the zodiac of Denderah, though the notable speculators, who 
have been so well rewarded by the laudable liberality of the 
French government, found it convenient to saw off this most 
important part of the stone, in order to make it portable: so 
true it is, that a copy, for the purposes of literature, may be in- 
comparably better than an original transported. The same title 
appears in great pomp, on one of your tablets, as the object of 
the respect of a train of deities. 
Mr. Champollion has had the kindness to favour me with # 
tracing of the enchorial papyrus of Casati, a document certainly 
far moré valuable than the zodiac of Denderah; and though I 
am not at liberty to anticipate its’ publication, I shall venture to 
amuse myself with sending you a translation of such parts of it, 
as I can pick out without too much trouble. 
(1.) Scnrprumhoc..anno. xvt.? Regum Ptolemdaei et Cle- 
upatrae sude sororis, filiorum Ptoletiaer et Cleopatra deofum 
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