An account of some recent discoveries in hieroglyphical literature, and Egyptian antiquities : $b including the author's original alphabet, as extended by Mr. Champollion, with a translation of five unpublished Greek and Egyptian manuscriptsYoung, Thomas
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An account of some recent discoveries in hieroglyphical literature, and Egyptian antiquities : $b including the author's original alphabet, as extended by Mr. Champollion, with a translation of five unpublished Greek and Egyptian manuscripts
Young, Thomas
Egyptian language -- Writing, Hieroglyphic
From a comparison of the Enchorial names, which are here inserted, we
may confidently add to the alphabet a semicircle, open above, as a
form of the P; we have also several variations of the T, and perhaps
of the TH; and the character, which is sometimes represented by Z,
and sometimes by S, must, in all probability, be the Coptic SH; so
that ZMINIS ought rather to be written SHMINIS, meaning OCTAVIUS, from
SHMEN, _eight_. The same character is found in the phrase of the Pillar
of Rosetta, “who has _received_ the kingdom from his father;” and may
probably have belonged to the word SHEP, if it is allowable to pursue
the analogy so far: it is also remarkable, that the hieroglyphic, which
corresponds to this character, has very nearly the same form with that,
to which Mr. Champollion attributes the power of SH or X in the name of
Xerxes. His Enchorial form of the CH is wholly unsupported by any of
these names.
ALPHABET OF CHAMPOLLION.
[Illustration: Α]
[Illustration: Β*]
[Illustration: Κ, Γ]
[Illustration: Τ, Δ*]
[Illustration: Ε]
[Illustration: Ι, Η*]
[Illustration: Λ*]
[Illustration: Μ*]
[Illustration: Ν*]
[Illustration: Ω, Ο*]
[Illustration: Φ, Π*]
[Illustration: Ρ]
[Illustration: Σ*]
[Illustration: ΤΟ]
*Y: †B.
HIEROGLYPHICAL NAMES
[Illustration: ADRIANUS: CAESAR.]
[Illustration: ALEXANDRUS.]
[Illustration: ANTONINUS: (_c. sempiternus_.)]
[Illustration: AUTOCRATOR CAESARIS.]
[Illustration: DOMITIANUS: SEBASTUS.]
[Illustration: CLEOPATRA.]
[Illustration: CAESARIS.]
[Illustration: BERENICES.]
[Illustration: NERVA: TRAJANUS: _sempit._]
[Illustration: PTOLEMAEUS: _c._ NEOCAESARIS: _semp: dii: Is. Phth._]
[Illustration: SABINA.]
[Illustration: SEBASTE: _sempiterna_.]
[Illustration: SEBASTUS: _semp. Is: Phth._]
[Illustration: TIBERIUS: CAESARIS: _semp._]
[Illustration: TRAJANUS: CAESARIS: _semp._]
[Illustration: TRAJANUS: C. GERMANICUS: DACICUS.]
[Illustration: VESPASIANUS: PIUS?]
[Illustration: COGNOMINE.]
ENCHORIAL PROPER NAMES.
[Illustration: AËTUS]
[Illustration: ALECIS, LECIS?]
[Illustration:
ALEXANDER }
}
ALEXANDRIA }
]
[Illustration: AMENOTHES]
[Illustration: AMMON, JUPITER]
[Illustration: AMMONIUS]
[Illustration: AMONORYTIUS]
[Illustration: AMONRASONTHER]
[Illustration: ANTIGENES]
[Illustration: ANTIMACHUS]
[Illustration: APOLLONIUS]
[Illustration: AREIA]
[Illustration: ARM“ENIS”]
[Illustration: ARSIESIS]
[Illustration: ARSINOE]
[Illustration: ASUS, ASYS, ASOS]
[Illustration: ATHYR]
[Illustration: BERENICE]
[Illustration: BUSIRITES]
[Illustration: CHAPOCHONSIS]
[Illustration: CHAPOCRATES]
[Illustration: CHIMNARAUS]
[Illustration: CLEOPATRA]
[Illustration: DIOGENES]
[Illustration: EIRENE, IRENE]
[Illustration: ERIEUS]
[Illustration: HORUS]
[Illustration: ISIS]
[Illustration: LUBAIS]
[Illustration: LYCOPOLIS]
[Illustration: MAËSIS]
[Illustration: MECHIR]
[Illustration: MESORE]
[Illustration: MIRSIS]
[Illustration: MUTHES]
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