148 HELIOPOLIS. 
THE ciirLDiiEN OF Israel'. Slraho\^ observa- 
tion upon the Heliopolitan sculpture is here ol 
importance: he says, it resembled the work- 
manship of Etrurians: and by the similarity 
already noticed ^ between the letters of the 
Elruscan alphabet and the characteirs observed 
upon Fhcenician signets, as well as the evident 
agreement of the signs upon Phoenician coins' 
with the Egyptian hierog/ij/j/iics, it may be in- 
ferred that the mode of writing used by the 
priests of Egypt corresponded with that which 
Moses caused to be engraven upon the stones 
for the ephod, and for the breast-plate of judg- 
ment, which are expressly and repeatedly de- 
scribed* as " THE WORKS OF AX ENGRAVER IN 
STONE, LIKE THE ENGRAVINGS OF A SIGNET." 
But with reference to the inscription upon 
the obelisk at HeliopoUs, and to the numerous 
examples of the same kind which have been 
noticed among the antiquities of Egypt, altliough 
(1) Ej:ridi;s xxviii. 9. 
(2) Sec Vol. IV. of tlicse Tnivcls p. 34. Octavo edition. 
(3) Witness the appearance of the Cni.r anso/ii uyion a. J'ficrtiician 
medal found in Cvi'uus. See T'lsnclU- to Chap. \l. I'ol. IV.' of theic 
Travels. Octavo etUlwn. 
(4) Exodus xxviii. 1 1, i'l. 
