SEYFFARTH—CHAMPOLLION AND RENOUF. 565 
e figures to be Hiri determined in my Alpha- 
bet; then, in order to obtain fitting syllabic powers from such 
hier s, they recurred to another group one the 
ent translations. It is on account of their cy” syllabic 
hieroglyphs that De Rougé, in his wonderful “Le Tombeau 
@Ahmes,” discovered a “fire snake, Amh 0g ” (“narrabo 
etiam nomen anguis illius, pa in monte suo; habitans in 
igne suo; nomen ejus >) ; and, in pasthac place, ob- 
tained the sense that the deceased, in the times of Moses, 
1867 B. C., was seven times decorated with the “ décoration 
de la valeur militaire 4 collier dor.” For that same reason, 
Mr. as delivered so marvellous an explanation of 
the Biecitans, w: while Dr. Uhlemann’s translation, seealy fol- 
ne my my i is correct. I pass by all those alpha- 
yphs of mine which were also silently adopted 
by tose Sot ace and add only, that I recognize many 0: 
; dear children by means of certain aahenni with 
. the ey were born 
Eg yt, in, spite of my. Astronomi: ia Aigyptiaca, a a large work 
qnarto, published sixteen years before, rested before him, 
: asia shale ‘slagiavtanl,, Tai yee Rel. 
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