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More correctly represented, Tirhaka’s 
“name (found at Birkel, Ethiopia) is thus 
heraldically represented :— » 
The other discovery of Mr. Salt is the 
tiame of Sabaco : — 
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To these may be added — which, 
though not discoveries, are scarcely of 
inferior consequence —the names of 
Rameses me Amun; and his son Ame- 
Noph, erronecusly called Memnon. 
The period at which they reigned 
séems to have formed the brightest 
period of the Egyptian monarchy. The 
| * In this case, the cognominal name is 
preceded: by the patronymic :—the first 
shield bearing the father’s arms; the 
second, the son’s. _ : (ta, 
Egyptian Reoviivches. 
{Aug. 1, 
temples bearing the names of these 
kings, as well as those of Rameses 
Thothmosis, carry, in their appearance, 
most convincing proof of their anti- 
quity. Ipsambul, Karnak, Medinet Abu, 
and the Memnonium, are glorious ex- 
amples of the perfection to whieh Egyp- 
tian architecture attained: In short, 
the greater part of the older monuments 
existing are constructed by these two 
monarchs; and the tombs att Biban El 
Moluch seem to have been exclusively 
possessed by their family. aH, 
“ We have stated, as one difficulty in 
the way of deciphering, that in order te 
arrive at a precise knowledge of the 
mode in which the names of Egyptian 
personages are written, it is necessary 
to be acquainted with the signs and 
figures of the deities, since human cogs 
nomens are commonly derived from 
their diviner names..On_ such ‘occas 
sions, it was customary to substitute the 
hieroglyphical character, in part, for the 
phonetic; and sometimes to add and 
mix the image of the deity among the 
characters. In order to correct. the 
vagueness likely to result from this Gif 
ficulty, Mr. Salt has been at the pains» 
to collect the hieroglyphical and phos * 
netic names of the principal Egyptian 
divinities, who, as we have remarked 
before, are reducible to eight (the eight 
caryatides of the courts of the temples): 
these are, Kneeph, Neith, Ptha, Amun, 
Phre, Athor, Buto, Mendes. There is 
nothing new. in this collection: the 
characteristic symbols of the above 
deities have long been familiar to the 
Egyptian antiquarian. The collection 
is, however, useful. . 
Mr. Salt concludes with repeating, 
that the Phonetic System was in use 
in the early period of the. Egyptian 
monarchy. This allegation we conceive 
to be perfectly established. -He pro- 
ceeds 
+ In two articles, entitled the “ So 
called Tomb of Psammis,’’ published in 
the Album, we endeavoured to shew that 
the tomb discovered by Belzoni, was not 
that of Psamimis, who was buried at Sais. 
The name has since been renounced by 
those who assigned it. We argued that it 
was the tomb of Sethes Egyptus (by some 
called Sesostris), the son of the famous 
Amenoph or Memnon, and grandson of 
Rameses Me Amun. To this opinion-we ~ 
adhere. The above testimony of Mr.. Salt _ 
corroborates our inference. It may be, 
said, indeed, to be proved by Mr. Bankes’s 
Table of Abydos ; ‘the armorial bearings: of 
the buried: monarch standing next in stc- - 
cession to those of Memnon. pons 
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