SEYFFARTH—CHAMPOLLION AND RENOUF. 543 
er imprudent ;” of course, because Bunsen was about to de- 
stroy finally the nimbus of the “orthodox school,” and to pre- 
vent its members from reforming the system of the “ great 
master” insensiblenvent into the opposite one. 
Further, Champollion’s successor at Paris, M. de Rougé, 
ys in his explanation: of the eTuuaon sur le tombeau 
coe Paris, 1851”: “It would have been impossible to 
this inscription according to Champollion’s system, 
in the se jet in which he left it;” that is to say, the “ im- 
possibi was surmounted by the aid of my syllabic princi- 
ple and sa of which he had a copy in hand, as we shall 
see hereafter. 
Deca. the able Lepsius says, “ there are inscriptions 
of which, as yet” (according to Champollion’s System—his 
Alphabet, G Grammar, and Dictionary), “we understand noth- 
ing.” This is just my opinion; and why are these men not 
Moreover, Champollion was, from 1800 down to 1832, in 
n of copies of the Rosetta-stone, and, although chal- 
by his friends and antagonists to verify his system by 
a translation of that bilingual inscription, he never succeeded 
in translating it, except a et groups containing no syllabic 
hieroglyphs : and why n The first translation of that 
€ appeared a ee ee after my — aiphaljet 
co 
llion was tw 
1836, for the purpose of discov ering the O 
ate. y the paypiian pee sere 
Addit ionally, i in 1896" ‘0 
cation of the inscriptions on ‘all Pe gress 
at Gps him 1 
| impressions of the plates, among which was also 
the. the copy of Hermapion’ s Obelisk on the ‘Piaars | del Popolo, 
Were sent to Champollion, at Paris; and although he was re- 
: Patedly admonished to fulfil his promises, he failed, and in’ 
Pie se cornea, he died, without having recognized Her- 
‘sigma r translated one line of the — 
