SEYFFARTH—CHAMPOLLION AND RENOUF. 545 
“victory,” or, on account of the “ determinative plural,” victo- 
nies; consequently, we translate—sub, de, circa, erga, apud, ad, 
the victories: but that is nonsense. e omitted, however, 
the “determinative, woman,” as Champollion teaches; conse- 
quently, we must translate—sub, de, circa, erga, apud, ad, ab, 
in, super, pro, ob, the female victories. That seems to be still 
sap e 0 
inally, t e lion’s claw, must probably belong to the class of 
fnigmatic signs: and, indeed, Champollion’s Dictionary trans- 
lates it by “beginning”; the Rosettana, by “Egypt”; Mane- 
: 8a: > nes, by 
*Decanus, Chmus”; the Todtenbuch, by “shem, altitudo.” 
‘fat 1s enigmatic, is it not? As, however, the number of 
“gmati¢ significations of the same hieroglyphic figure may 
*mount to several hundreds, I, “in utter espair of determin- 
ing for myself the first group,” renounce the translation of 
he tian texts. Therefore, I begin to try single groups 
I reg 3 and look, in a moment what wonderful success. 
er of Champollion’s principles, for the 
derstanding an entire hieroglyphic inscrip- 
hausted. We begin again with the lion’s 
crophonically sounds A, and as abbre- 
hac ha, 7:."° Spell the lion’s claw: hab, heb hib, hob, hub ; 
habae 2 Lit hoe, hue; habab, habeb, habib, habob, habub ; 
ins lubes, habio, dahon haben tut oo’ forty” andi 
“Nag thus we would gain several millions of probabili- 
