538 SEYFF ARTH—PAPYRUS- SCROLL. 
of the flax. es 
54. ‘According to Champollion our Captain was Osiris him- 
self, or rather an “ Osirian.” : 
is group signifies “le dieu Thothunen,” and gives, ac- 
cording to Champollion, the wonderful sense : the makers of 
the gods Thothunen. 
112. This group is translated in the Rosettana by man, and 
robably refers to the Coptic sabe, sapiens, because the door- 
r expressed the syllable sd, and the joined figure of a man 
(Aam) explains the whole: ens sapiens, a rational being, the 
wise. This group is also, together with many thousand simi- 
te, 
ity,” or “the lords of the eternal permutation.” I am 
which oceur very seldom in Egyptian writings. According 
to Champollion, the Phenix signified symbolically the inun- 
dation ; consequently the Egyptian men were, at that time, 
ou : 
ing determined by a“ wife,” the pretty fitting sense that the 
grains grown it the country to the king, and for eS 
such tributes certainly differe 
dist: ave” bebe 
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alten 
cet., 
roe, ro 
ery “pene 
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