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mummy in 1828, was only acquainted with Chainpollion's 
system, it is, therefore, not surprising that he failed in 
deciphering the inscriptions on the sarcophagus under con- 
sideration, and in determining the true age of the defunct, 
and that of the coeval kings. Mr. Osburn deserves, never- 
theless, the thanks of all friends of Egyptian archeology 
for his learned pamphlet, and for the publication of the 
most important parts of the inscription on the coffin. 
The name of the deceased consists, as usual, of two different 
roots, of which the first is expressed by the letters K K S F. 
This word enkasi, in the plural enkasiv, signifies in Coptic, 
that is — since Copt, or Gypt is equal to Egypt — in the later 
Egyptian language : ratio, modus, or condition, nature. The 
other part of the name contains the name of the god Amun, 
the sun god. The defunct was, consequently, called Enkasi- 
Amun, the nature, or likeness of Amun, in one word 
" Ammonius," as the Greeks translated it. The Egyptian 
papyri offer proper names similarly compounded, e.g., Enkasi- 
Chons (the likeness of Hercules), Enkasi- Amone (the like- 
ness of Gaea, the goddess of the earth). 
The employment of Enkasiv- Amun is mentioned, as Mr. 
Osbum states, on more than fifty places, which, apart from 
some trifling variations, reads thus : — " The reverend priest, 
minister of the tributes, the lord of the clerk-office in the 
temple of Mnut, the sun, who is the lord and governor of 
Egypt ; the superintendent of the fruits tributed to Amun, 
who is the royal warden of the earth, etc. ; namely, Enkasiv - 
Amun, the servant, the late." From this passage we learn 
what has been the business of the defunct. For, as 
Egyptian people, including even the priests, were bound to 
sacrifice one-tenth of all the fruits grown in the land, to the 
royal treasury, and as the king was worshipped like a god, 
and therefore called Amun (Augustus, the illustrious one) ; 
as, finally, Enkasiv- Amun had been decorated with a peculiar 
