534 _ SEYFFARTH—PAPYRUS-SCROLL. 
In the mean time we find that the same word god is —* 
ically expremed, in different copies of the same text, by three 
figures, viz., the hatchet (A), the mount (¢), and the waves (n), 
wes | gives the word hater (hammer, hatchet), and also Ator 
(necessitas, arbitrium, potestas) ; in short, every kind of su- 
remac In the Hebrew, the same word adar signifies 
mighty, powerful; and thus every one sees that the “hatchet” 
here expresses syllabically Ator, the supremacy of the king 
Shishak over the bruised rebels; while Champollion gives the 
nonsense that the king was the god of the enemies which he 
had killed —- 
IV. Asove THE Socvt. 
1. The lion’s claw, in the modern Coptic dsame, and - 
ruptly dsadsme, in the ancient sacred dialect kame, expresse 
the same consonants 4m in many words, e. g., in the name of 
em, altit 
Therefore it expresses hols syllabieally dsom (the chief), an 
below dsome (the book). How it was possible to signify a 
these words aid proper names symbolically, or, according to 
the law of abbreviation, a — si 's claw, Champollion and 
his Ag erin may explain themselve 
up shetshot, tlie: wibiens + keto) originated from 
on tay ot, shot, shetshot ¢ (to cut, secare), and therefore it 
corresponds exactly with the Hebrew Crethi, derived from sence 
root carath (to cut, secare). Those Crethi, Z s 
as the Plethi, eenreeont ad not tha fo ral ‘lifeguard ales > they 
also served as the standing army ‘of, : e same We 
find in Egypt, where, as erodotus says, the royal army Con 
: Crethi, or +h eg in the residence of the king Shehs, at 
Theb On-baki, Sr fate Diospolis, about 1050 B.C. 
fies ree ween figure, from the root hmaasy hemsi (to sit), 
at Coptic word the figure is to be reere d. According to 
a Homi rai gives in 2 all places the wonderfully fitting 
a 13, 14. At first I was inclined to take these groups fr 
ce ‘the mame of Horse be’s father, or fo r his office, whic ch in ae 
ame But the same . 
166; the words shepherd, herd 
