CROWNS OF EGYPT. To correspond with the divisions of Egypt there were two crowns; the one called HEZ "_the white one_" ([glyphs]), signifying Upper Egypt, and the other DESHER "_the red one_" ([glyphs]), signifying Lower Egypt. Whenever the king ruled over all Egypt these two crowns were joined into one [glyphs], which was called [glyphs] SEKHEN·T in Hieroglyphic, but in Demotic, with the prefixed article PE, PSKHENT, or the Greek word [Greek: pschent] [pskhent]. This crown was worn by kings and gods. ^{31 60} DAMASCUS. The capital of Syria. It is called in the Bible [Hebrew: DAMESEQ] [Dammêseq], in Arabic [Arabic: DMSHQ] [Dimashku], {115}and in Egyptian [glyphs] THEMESQU, and was the extreme limit of the conquest of Thothmes III. in northern Palestine. ^{36} DAMIETTA. A small town situated between the Damietta branch of the Nile and Lake Menzaleh, and at present called Dumyât. It is perhaps the site of the ancient Egyptian [glyphs] HA·T-NEBES·T. ^{92} DASHÛR. A village near the site of the ancient Memphis and only a short distance from a number of small and two large pyramids. ^{91} DEB·T. The Egyptian name of Edfu. ^{87} DEHUTI. The ibis-faced god whose name is written in Egyptian [glyphs] DEHUTI. The usual way of writing this god's name is Thoth (which see). ^{56} DEHUTI-MESES. The family name of Thothmes III. in its simplest form. ^{49 58 60 61} DEHUTI-MESES-NEFER-KHEPERU. One of the variants of the family name of Thothmes III., which means "_the child of Thoth, beautiful in his transformations_". ^{58 60 61} DELTA. The northern part of Egypt or Lower Egypt lying around the seven branches of the Nile. This part of the country forms a vast triangle and, because of its resemblance to their letter D [[Greek: D] Delta], was called by the Greeks "the Delta". Its Egyptian name is [glyphs] PA TA MER·T, "_the land of the inundation_". ^{84 90} DEMOTIC. The third kind of Egyptian writing which was formerly also called "_enchorial_" or indigenous. It was the simplest form in which the Egyptian picture-characters were written, and was introduced in the reign of Psametik I. [7th century B. C.]. Being read from right to left like the Hieratic, it was employed for the same class of literary work as this. The ease, however, {116}with which it could be written made it most suitable for every-day use, and it supplanted the Hieratic almost completely. It was itself superseded in the time of the Roman emperors by the Coptic (which see). It was called in Hieroglyphics (on the Rosetta Stone) [glyphs] SEKHI EN SHÂÎ "_writing of the books_". The Demotic alphabet is here subjoined. [Illustration]