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‘obedient: spirits.of;the sculptured:amu- 
let-are-invekedcin vain!; the guardian 
lock brefusesisto admit the wizard key ; 
and -the: chamber -of mystery. remains 
‘involved)jin silent, solitude and imper- 
-nieableigloom. 
oieMr, Salt has added the names of 
-Arsinoeand Philip, the father of Alex- 
ander, to those’before decyphered, He 
chag, also corrected the. latitudinarian 
-and.conjectural range of Champollion’s 
Alphabet, to which we have before ob- 
jected.—Mons, C.”’ says Mr. Salt, be- 
“sides the Goose for.A, has given the 
same ‘hieroglyphic . for £, and the 
@hicken for A; but for neither of these 
do I find any certain authority.”  In- 
stead’ of a goose, Mr. C. adds, the final 
character for A is generally a hawk or 
aerow. The’ characters of the accom- 
panying shield, to that of Alexander, 
though ‘crested by.the usual: goose and 
globe (which, according to Dr. Young, 
means, “Son of/*-but which, as Ms. 
Salt suggests, is more probably“ Son 
of the sun’) are imewplicazie. On ano- 
ther idscription; “son”? is represented by 
a goose (as Horus Apollo intimates), and 
oblong square; “daughter” being 
pressed by the addition of the female 
patronymic—a half circle. 
' Our own opinion, as we have before 
expressed (see Researches in Egypt, 
No. 409), is, that the accompanying 
shield (we,adhere to the term shield in- 
stead of ring. represents the armorial 
bearings of the king’s ancestor. One 
is the cognominai, the other the pa- 
tronymic name. : The dee and -plant 
obably meant aboriginal or earth-born 
ing. The bee, we know to be an enm- 
blem of the Pharaohs--and to mean 
king.. In proof of.the inference, we 
refer triumphantly to Mr. Banks’s “Ge- 
nealogical. Table of . Abydos,” which 
forms the frontispiece of Mr. Salt’s 
publication. In the lower compart- 
ent, a line of various kings is repre- 
sented, as descended from one common 
stem; the shield, surmounted by the 
bee, always containing the same cha- 
racter; and the accompanying shield, 
gurmounted by the goose, changing 
with-every successive step of the de- 
scent, One shield was clearly the cog- 
nominal coat _of arms, the other the 
Col 
alt has also added (bringing full 
their claim to admission) two 
t,. 043 sade of tongs. for the letter 
BPG PVE oan for DT, or Th. 
rh Seka 
jONTHLY Mac. No, 413. 
Egyphad Researchés. 
Onetie characters to, the alpha-. 
r. Salt -has made to. 
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previous coallections..of namessof Ro- 
man Emperors are, Nero, Commodus, 
Adrian, Antoninus; and*Domitian, 
Among the names. of* the encjent 
kings of Egypt, he finds Misarte, the 
king who erected the obelisk » now 
standing at Matarea, and Thothmosis. 
This. Thothmosis was the same king, 
according to Josephus, who perished 
in the Red Sea. Manetho says: that 
Thothmosis, the son of Misphragemu- 
thosis, the founder of the dynasty. end- 
ing with Belus, or Sethos Egyptus, and 
his brother Danaus (whom he expelled 
to Grecian Argos) besieged the Shep- 
herds to the amount of 250,000, in 
Abaris; and that they went out. of 
Egypt into the wilderness, and from 
thence into Judea, and founded Hie- 
rusalem. Charemon adds, that. they 
were lepreuspeople, and that they de 
parted under the conduct of Moses, an 
Egyp#an Scribe, whose Egyptian name 
was ‘Tisithen, and of Joseph, whose 
Egyptian name was Peteseph. 6 
The shield-of Fhothmosis is thus 
charged with the Pionetic symbols of 
his name. The accompanying right 
shield contains the name of Rameses— 
the left, of Thothmosis, It is copied 
from Cleopatra’s Needle. 
Sel 
Sas ams 
On this sublime discovery, Mr. ‘Salt. 
may well congratulate himself. Two 
more equally sublime (we use the word 
advisedly—for the discovery is con- 
nected with the most lofty and impor- 
tant associations)—are also due to him 
At Medinet Abu, he found the name 
of Tirhaka, contemporary with Isaiah; 
whose existence many learned men 
have doubted, but of whom it is said in 
the Book of Kings—“ Tirhaka, King of 
Ethiopia, came out to make war against 
Sennacherib, King of Assyria.” He was; 
therefore, contemporary with Sethon,. 
the second King of Egypt, who recorded, 
in Vulcan’s temple at Sais, the destruc. 
tion of Sennacherib’s army in the night, 
and his own deliverance from it, by the 
, emblematic, figure of a mouse or raty 
Destruction in the night could not be: 
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