556 SEYFFARTH—CHAMPOLLION AND RENOUF. 
We come now to the “punctum saliens” in this notable 
article. The Rev. P. Renouf knew very well that the 
doctrine, that ev ery hieroglyphic figure, above all, expresses 
eens the consonants contained in its name, is the real 
to the whole Egyptian literature. As this discovery, 
ye wever, was made by an antagonist of the “orthodox 
school,” the Reviewer makes all —eieage pont to persuade 
all made by me, but either by Poadipellice ‘himself, or by Dr. 
Young, o nba Lepsi “ or 7. De neers 2 For this purpose, in 
the ing og claimant is not eyffarth, but Dr. Young? 
the peeing volume of the “Atlantis? p- 337, we read sheias 
at step in advance after Cham ampollion’s death 
senseene what we now call the syllabic signs, the true ae 
of which was “ed promulgated by Dr. Lepsius, and perfected 
by M. de Rou Now, which of these four statements is 
pron sake as as true ? Surely, this critic needs a better 
pe reat us come closer to the forge First, the Rev. Re- 
viewer asserts that Champollion had, before me, Young, and 
all — ducted the said “key” to the hieroglyphic lit- 
eratu 8 position is prov 
1. By the following passage in the “Revue Archéolosiqus” 
Vol. XIV. .» p. 593, containing an article read before “So- 
cieté doa Sciences” * os $530 : « As al all E 
en, ery was very easy to constract:a vayllabie sipbabet andy 
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in all probability, this was the nature of the hieroglyphs. ae 
This, proof, however, r, seems to me, to prove too much, am 
misse i what person first 
f 2 that the epi he figures ¢*- 
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