SEYFFARTH—PAPYRUS-SCROLL. 537 
same signification. Champollion, ignoring the syllabic power 
of the hieroglyphs, teaches this figure as always sounding s, 
next word Osiris, although followed by “the determinative 
god,” was not a substantive, but a verb, and so the followin 
nonsense comes out: “God the creator osiriavit or osiriatus 
est.” This hieroglyph alone, by its frequ ency, prevents all the 
followers of Champollion’s unsound acrophonic system from 
translating whole Egyptian texts. Compare VLI., 41, 111, 116. 
- The word ranpe, in the modern corrupted Coptic 
rampe, from which rompl (the year) originates, means, in its 
first signification, a ring, a circle. 
42. The mount with a forest (shta) expresses, according to 
Champollion, a erown and also ‘a feast, and the subsequent 
“determinative,” the figure of a god, brings out “agod of 
festivities ;” a godhead totally unknown, as yet in our My- 
thologies. The man, however, in Coptic ham (homo), being 
copulated with the sylla i 
man Of sacrifices, a priest. 
47. The word Adon is wanting in all Coptic Dictionaries ; 
the context, however, teaches that it signifies the creator of 
the earth, of the sun and moon. It is obvious that Adon 
ble sht, i. e. shot (sacrifice), gives, “a 
bby 
crescent, being determined by a man, signifies ac- 
Ch g =f 2s Tha 
cording to ampollion, the god of the moon. hat same 
-ftescent or moon was not at all as bolic, nor especially a 
figurative ” figure ; but that the ia in the ancient Coptic, 
maan, 
mand, 
