VULTURE DIADEM. A diadem of Pharaoh, in Egyptian [glyphs] NEB MUT or NEB SHETA (doubtful!). The figure of the vulture was generally worn as the head-dress of {154}the queens. It is the symbol of protection, and represents Pharaoh and his queen as the protectors and nourishers of their people. ^{56 57 66 70} WANSTEAD OBELISK. A fragment of an obelisk which existed at the time of Zoëga in Wanstead, a suburb of London. It was brought to England from Alexandria in 1712. Its present location is unknown. ^{11} WILKINSON, Sir John Gardner. An English Egyptologist (born in 1797, died in 1875). His famous work is _The Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians_. ^{14} YA`MER-BEN-SHADDÂD. A mythical person. ^{80} ZÂN·T. The Egyptian name of Tanis, which see. ^{92} ZOËGA, George. A Danish archæologist interested in Egyptological subjects (born in 1755, died in 1809 in Rome). ^{11} [Illustration: Pharaoh in his royal robes offering libation to the gods.] {155}A GLOSSARY OF HIEROGLYPHS OCCURRING IN THIS BOOK, TOGETHER WITH THEIR PRONUNCIATION AND DETERMINATIVE VALUE. We divide the Egyptian hieroglyphs, after the manner of Lepsius, into twenty-five classes. In the following list the hieroglyphs are given together with what they were _probably_ meant to represent. The more important pronunciations are added, which, however, can not be used indiscriminately, but are fixed by _complements_, that is, _letters_ of the alphabet _indicating_ the pronunciation and either prefixed or else suffixed to the hieroglyph. The pronunciation of the later, or Ptolemaic, times is marked *. _Determinatives_ are _silent_ hieroglyphs, determining, in words of the same pronunciation, into what category of objects or ideas these words belong. _Pron._ stands for pronunciation. * stands for _pronunciation of later times_. _Det._ stands for _determinative_. The _numerals_ refer to the pages of the book where the hieroglyph occurs. I. FIGURES OF MEN. [glyphs] "man with arms hanging down." _Det._ of person, youth. 62 [glyphs] "man with arms raised." _Pron._ qa, hââ. _Det._ of height, joy, carrying, lifting. 61 [glyphs] "old man leaning on a staff." _Pron._ aau, ten. _Det._ of old age, weakness. 27 [glyphs] "man striking." _Pron._ nekht. _Det._ of violent action. 60 [glyphs] "man with crosier and whip." _Pron._ *heq. 106 136 136 136 136 [glyphs] "child sucking its finger." _Pron._ s, *n, *nen *shera, *khen, *â, *kh., _Det._ of child, youth, renewal. 27 27 48 [glyphs] "prisoner tied with ropes." _Det._ of enemy, crime. 126 [glyphs] "man sitting." _Pron._ a (as first person singular masculine personal pronoun). _Det._ of man, person. 94 94 94 121 [glyphs] "man with finger in his mouth." _Pron._ am. _Det._ of speaking, eating, thinking. 137 [glyphs] "bearded man sitting." _Pron._ a (as first person singular masculine personal pronoun). 31 48