eternal life vouchsafed to her by the song of Homer; surely bygone Egyptians have, in like fashion, won immortality through the genius of their mighty artists. [1] Single statues in the Old Kingdom, figures in groups in Middle Kingdom. [2] _Recueil d'antiquités égyptiennes, étrusques, grecques, romaines et gauloises_. Six vols. Paris, 1752-1755. [3] See Frontispiece and illustration facing p. 120 [reproduced in black and white in the present edition]. GLOSSARY AND INDEX THE PRONUNCIATION OF EGYPTIAN The correct pronunciation of Old, Middle, and Late Egyptian can only be gleaned by analogy from that of Coptic, which represents the popular language of Egypt from the third to the ninth century A.D. But this tongue was strongly reinforced by Greek loan-words, and as it was rendered in writing by the Greek alphabet it is difficult to say how much of the native linguistic element it really represents. But its orthography gives a clear idea of its pronunciation, and it is the mainstay of Egyptian philologists in restoring the word-forms of the ancient language, or at least Late Egyptian, between which and the Middle and Old dialects there is a wide linguistic gap. Indeed, the pronunciation of these archaic forms is probably for ever lost to modern scholarship. Speaking generally, Egyptian words and names are usually pronounced by scholars as they are spelt. (Index not retained in text-version.) End of Project Gutenberg's Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt, by Lewis Spence