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(plenitudo terre), the fullness of the world (of Egypt). The 
stool, or instrument for elevating and distinguishing ¢ ets 
minis, on the bilingual Berlin mummy-chest ; wherefore ithe 
longs to the root maini (insignire), to render more visible, or 
distinguished. This hieroglyphic figure, then, expressing the 
consonants mn, gives, in that composition, the word mone 
(mansio, habitatio), and serves as a determinative to e press 
the idea, that Egypt was the abode, or home, of mankind. 
, the joined vase, called shashu, being translated Suoler 
(in Coptic shesh), and byssus (in Coptic shesh), and meal (in 
Coptic shaish),t expresses pacers J the two consonants sh- 
sh, and consequently, in the composition in question, the word 
shesh (extensio, or extending). Therefore a whole group 
contains the words one shesh, i.e. the fullness of 
