544 SEYFFARTH—-CHAMPOLLION AND RENOUF. 
identified in 1826. It was an easy thing to compare, word for 
word, the text of the Obelisk with Hermapion’s translation, 
ion with that made according to Champollion’s system ; and 
ow what was the result? The strict followers of Champol- 
on had furnished a translation — sentences totally differ- 
ing from old Hermapion ; and why ?* 
urther, Champollion, "according to his symbolic principle, 
had, in his numerous works, particularly in his Dictionary, 
translated a great many royal surnames on the Table of oe 
a; the -T site “of of Karnak, and other monuments. Su 
ey, however, the Greek translations of those same in- 
scriptions and names, made by mens the author of the 
Ree, etus a n, and Manetho, came to light; and thus (I 
sorry to say it) it turned out that of Champollion’ 8 trans- 
lations of all these royal sacred names, not a single one was 
correct.f 
Supposing, however, that all these facts, which have been 
discussed in extenso in my Grammatica Algyptiaca, and of 
which the “prudent” Reviewer, of course, says not a word, 
yout not be oe to enable eras reader to come to a de- 
Pbesin with Mr. Stone’s oy Sapte, and there the first 
is expressed by a lion’s claw and an arm. What may that © t be? 
arm 
suppose the lion’s claw to be a letter, and, indeed, ene on 
_ lion’s Grammar tells me that it signifies /. With the w' 
