SEYFFARTH—-CHAMPOLLION AND RENOUF. 549 
mots comme les lettres de tout —_— alphabet”—the pho- 
netic hieroglyphs are combined in order to form words like 
the es of all other siphabicts. , 
3. In many other hieroglyphic groups each figure expresses 
the first sound of its syllabic power, ¢ consequently that with 
ie the name of the sy eet 2 begins, as is the case in the 
ebre 
syllables rg i esa = fom their original names, parti- 
e 
7. No Gocpioabic aa particulary no determinative, is 
to Aaken for a symbolic sign, expre spa either mimetical- 
e. g., the crescent. This rinciple excludes all the 
systems of Kircher, Ricardi, Palin, Young, Champollion, and 
others, who stated the Egyptians to have more or less used 
symbolic figures for expressing entire ideas. The only excep- 
oe are the “ssa ag yam be aaron signi the Planets and 
tlaca 
Loui 
_ as is dem ‘ated in Astronomia Atgyp 
1, ‘Tips, 183 1833, and cats in the re Transactions of the: 
us Academy of Science, Vol. L, p.. 7. 
The names of all the 600 hierog] ic figures of 
cient =A fom upon which depend both their syllabic and 
ronuncia : 
a aay wi been previously determined ar the sanity 0 
. doch yet, no presage ea the real key te ous shal Eg) 
. They by which I arrived at that eystem 3 was as ee 
= rand then tried. to decipher, not si 
_ Pollion did, but. the whole inscription ae 
an ntire texts, Afterwards, I was a as to discover 
— 8 Obelisk and five other > bilingual: sandal 
