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SEYFFARTH—CHAMPOLLION AND RENOUF. 541 
4, No oon: ama figure expresses a syllable, or two or 
three co 
D. iss. hieroglyphic figures are to be taken in one place 
for ideographic, i. e., figurative, or tropical, or enigmatic signs ; 
in the i simply ‘for. letters, acr gp. wind 
scriptions contain a mass of abbreviated words, 
e g, 8 i. nid n for nuter, o for ak and so forth. 
7. Commonly each group is followed by a determinative, a 
figure signifying symbolically to what class of things the pre- 
ceding word or group belonged. 
8. Of the 600 hieroglyphic figures of _ ancient Egyptians 
(the Dublin hieroglyphist er any —_ 500 more, and it 
All the these rules, constituting Champollion’s system, are ba- 
sed, not u th the translation of the entire inscription of Ro- 
setta, or other whole on but upon a ——e of — names 
and explain gramma tically whole tian’ texts. Had he 
done so, he never would have published such a ape and 
pe eaag the progress of that science 
first object of the Dublin hi hieroglyphist is to adio- 
7 paatarttem, 2 and to demonstrate that it is s really the key 
ota e said article. 7 myself, looked for them anxiously, 
the ee over twice and — but failed to dis- 
- Cover them, mmendations of Champollion’s system 
amount, to the following, only : : 
“The illu _ Champollion,” «the great master,” “the 
he orthodox mode,” —_ oman 
