532 SEYFFARTH—PAPYRUS- SCROLL. 
the same text, for the three science ges ote () mount 
eantatond in the ward suten (king), as the Rosettana trans- 
lates. According to Champollion this same flax-stalk sounds 
8, and is a n abbreviation of the word suten; nu practical oye 
tem, wiles obliges the hieroglyphist to take a single s for 
five letters, for the word suten; then, why not also for saé 
(mist), or sat (the seed), or saat (to plies or set (a saviour), 
or sit (a snake), or soit (glory), or sti (perfume), or sote (the 
arrow), or stati (the steel), or sotep (the rei 4 or sotf 
,and so on? What brat ould be 
capable of translating correctly a bierozlyphis “jnseription, 
consisting of 100 words, of which, as usual, 80 express ress ab- 
breviate words of that kind. : 
2. The wasp signifies, according to Horapollo, the obedien 
seks een: indeed, shal uki (the wasp) contains re wn 
or 8 
What 
enar'é by a wasp, Champollion never expl 
3. The ea ve the royal name, Is not at all vel 
bolic sign for the word “ name,” in Coptic ran, but 
was called ran, and therefore it expressed 8 syllabically the 
word ran (the name), because both contained the same con- 
) : 
sonants. _ is see the pesos ran (vessel) is wanting in om 
‘ r, the word mée-ran, 
any 
(Bokhari), "an since & common > chan 
_ Same reason the fox EF Saeed the me bek erabing) 
= case in Bs 17. In the latter place this io 
aa _ by ‘the whip, which is there the “phonetic ¢ ‘s 
min; ive of the fox, viz, bk. According to Champor. 
-Symbolical theory, our king’ was the “gardien de (a Chan 
14. The sparrow-hawk signifies, according to 4 
ay isan and cg fae ae iia, EO Te conset ae 
= the hawk sopialy Sinifed as by means pea 
