SEYFFARTH—CHAMPOLLION AND RENOUF. 557 
linis Hieroglyphica,” to which I owe my real syllabic figures. 
I ask, then, is it possible to “open a real door” by the instru- 
mentality of a “probable” or rather “ideal” key? Alas, for 
thee, Columbus! it is demonstrated now that thou didst not 
discover America, since Herodotus had the first Sop of the 
great Atlantis, and, to deal justly, it is now time the new 
continent were called Herodota. Moreover, Chanepioliien 8 
_ “idea” is totally different from my own “key ;” for Champol- 
lion discovered as early as 1810 that rapt each hiero- 
glyph expressed a whole Coptic “monosyllabic” word, ¢ o7 
sisting of consonants and vowels, like the so called rebus. 
myself, discovered, from 1826 to 1845, that each Sater 
expresses ~ the consonants contained in its name, e. g., the 
phallus, ms ; the sparrow-hawk, kr; the owl, mlk ; and so 
on. In she, according to Champollion’ 8 first < probability,” 
lyphie texts were real 2 ha pertty hares to 
my ~ hp both Egyptian and Hebre re written 
! e same way; ‘thee aianied Aras eee and 
very iehionn expressed the aboriginal vowels. For the rest, 
supposing that Champollion had, in 1810, discovered the true 
“key” to the hieroglyphics, he must have lost it soon after; 
for, in 1823, in his sk ares Champollion clearly demonstrated 
that - Young’s and his own “rebus-theory” was wrong, 
and since that time he admitted but alphabetic and sym 
lie seer age “J, myself,” —_ = “have taken reed 
ca of 3 argume the pase is sometimes 
nts, 
: — | kind of sharers value,” says he, “has been 
