SEYFFARTH—PAPYRUS-SCROLL. 533 
quid pro quo, a king—the king of the stones. Fortunately, 
however, the same words occur in IV., 15, where the whip 
(wosh, in the ancient Coptic bok) again signifies the word 
kek (crushing). As, then, the sparrow-hawk was also called 
bek, it expressed syllabically that same word ek (crushing), 
while the stone (tod) syllabically expressed the word thode 
(wicked). Thus, then, our king was simply “ the crusher of 
the wicked ; or, according to Champollion, “the guide of the 
stones.” - 
_18. The goose opt does not at all, as Champollion imagined, 
signify the Coptic word she (son); it sounds syllabically bote 
(germen, offspring) ; as, e. g. the said judgment of the dea 
oves. For, we have seen, that, there, the righteousness 
(mashi) of the deceased was expressed by the ostrich feather 
mashi), and his badness, on the other scale, by the goose 
(opt) representing syllabically the word Bote (badness). Prob- 
ably, however, according to Champollion, our good geese were 
once very bad 
_ 24. The figure mount is not very clear in the copy sent me 
by Mr. Stone, and therefore my translation may not be reli- 
_(viein 8). This eye is an inexplicable mystery for Cham- 
“ion and his isans. — ae 
the rest, many of the titles given here to king Shishak 
i d therefore re 
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pal Feet translated in the Rosettana. 
represents, as Ihave demonstrated in 
‘ 
gyptiaca, the forehead, in Coptic tehne ; 
€ it expresses syllabically all words containin the 
onsonants, particularly here the word tno (to bruise), 
monly the number 10 (ten), in the modern Coptic ment, 
cient ten; and I do not doubt that from a similar 
Du ar the Coptic 
front signi- 
and so we get the 
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