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THE MASTABA OF PTAHHETEP AND AKHETHETEP.
CHAPTER III.
THE HIEROGLYPHS OF PTAHHETEP AND AKHETHETEP.
By the Editor.
N.B.—Throughout this chapter, tlie, scenes anil inscriptions from Ptahlietep's chamber in luhich the hieroglyphs
occur are generally referred to as sliown in the plates of "The Ramesseum." Plate-numbers up to XXX.
refer to the present volume, and those from XXXI. to XLI. to "The Ramesseum." For abbreviations sec
"Hieroglyphs," p. ix. ; for transliteration, ib. pp. x.. xi. An asterisk (*) metrics a hieroglyphic type as inexact.
Those who may be "working; upon the history
of Egyptian writing will be glad to have refer-
ences to reviews of the volume on Hieroglyphs,
which formed the sixth memoir of the Archaeo-
logical Survey. It has been reviewed by
Maspero in the Revue Critique, October, 1899,
p. 261 ; by W. Max Mullee in Orientaliseher
Liter aturzeitung, 1899, p. 266 (cf. a special
article on the non-acrophonic origin of the
hieroglyphic alphabet, id. ib. p. 259) ; and by
Piehl, Sphinx, iii., p. 46. Professor Maspero's
review is very suggestive, and of especial value
as treating individually twenty-three separate
hieroglyphs; Max Midler's deals rather with
general principles or witli questions of pure
philology. Each writer corrects indubitable
errors in Hieroglyphs, and each appears to me
to uphold one or more untenable theories. If
little use has been made of these reviews—so
full of valuable information and suggestions—
in the preparation of this chapter, it is because
most of the material for it Avas collected before
they appeared, and also because one cannot,
with each instalment of facsimiles and notes,
give space for full discussion of details and of
disputed points. This must be left to some
future time, when the progress of knoAvledge
and an accumulation of examples may have
made possible a final settlement of the origin
of most of the signs and of their values.
There must also be noted as of great im-
portance for Egyptian phonology and for the
values of signs, the first volume of Sethe's
elaborate and very original study on the
Egyptian verb. It is from time to time re-
ferred to in the following pages. Sethe's main
view in regard to the writing is that it is
purely consonantal, and that weak letters,
which in many words were etymologically
appropriate but had lost their phonetic value,
were from early times introduced inappro-
priately into other words by false analogy.
We here publish a nearly complete set of
types of hieroglyphs from the sculptured
chambers of Ptahhetep and Akhethetep. Their
value as specimens is naturally very unequal.
In discussing varieties of signs care is alwavs
required to discriminate between unfinished or
injured examples and genuine new forms. The
scenes and inscriptions in this mastaba were
carefully sketched in inks for the sculptor to
work on. In the chambers of Akhethetep
considerable wall-spaces so prepared were left
entirely untouched by the chisel; in other
places the sculptor has done his work imper-
ii; !P ^
^ishable fr
•either in si
sign itself,
lathe should
iftietep (e
jrtaa carek
:, There are eg
pitted or tt
\m which w
<
some ^
sculptured th
■ili although
0
%d to b
'-fenecropo
' guarantee tl
i in its inscr
-we and iute
:t^ nomes—a
'Common c
;* the form
Shout
! far moi
i,;i*pletely
;;Shot
c°pies of
tf*"
12
THE MASTABA OF PTAHHETEP AND AKHETHETEP.
CHAPTER III.
THE HIEROGLYPHS OF PTAHHETEP AND AKHETHETEP.
By the Editor.
N.B.—Throughout this chapter, tlie, scenes anil inscriptions from Ptahlietep's chamber in luhich the hieroglyphs
occur are generally referred to as sliown in the plates of "The Ramesseum." Plate-numbers up to XXX.
refer to the present volume, and those from XXXI. to XLI. to "The Ramesseum." For abbreviations sec
"Hieroglyphs," p. ix. ; for transliteration, ib. pp. x.. xi. An asterisk (*) metrics a hieroglyphic type as inexact.
Those who may be "working; upon the history
of Egyptian writing will be glad to have refer-
ences to reviews of the volume on Hieroglyphs,
which formed the sixth memoir of the Archaeo-
logical Survey. It has been reviewed by
Maspero in the Revue Critique, October, 1899,
p. 261 ; by W. Max Mullee in Orientaliseher
Liter aturzeitung, 1899, p. 266 (cf. a special
article on the non-acrophonic origin of the
hieroglyphic alphabet, id. ib. p. 259) ; and by
Piehl, Sphinx, iii., p. 46. Professor Maspero's
review is very suggestive, and of especial value
as treating individually twenty-three separate
hieroglyphs; Max Midler's deals rather with
general principles or witli questions of pure
philology. Each writer corrects indubitable
errors in Hieroglyphs, and each appears to me
to uphold one or more untenable theories. If
little use has been made of these reviews—so
full of valuable information and suggestions—
in the preparation of this chapter, it is because
most of the material for it Avas collected before
they appeared, and also because one cannot,
with each instalment of facsimiles and notes,
give space for full discussion of details and of
disputed points. This must be left to some
future time, when the progress of knoAvledge
and an accumulation of examples may have
made possible a final settlement of the origin
of most of the signs and of their values.
There must also be noted as of great im-
portance for Egyptian phonology and for the
values of signs, the first volume of Sethe's
elaborate and very original study on the
Egyptian verb. It is from time to time re-
ferred to in the following pages. Sethe's main
view in regard to the writing is that it is
purely consonantal, and that weak letters,
which in many words were etymologically
appropriate but had lost their phonetic value,
were from early times introduced inappro-
priately into other words by false analogy.
We here publish a nearly complete set of
types of hieroglyphs from the sculptured
chambers of Ptahhetep and Akhethetep. Their
value as specimens is naturally very unequal.
In discussing varieties of signs care is alwavs
required to discriminate between unfinished or
injured examples and genuine new forms. The
scenes and inscriptions in this mastaba were
carefully sketched in inks for the sculptor to
work on. In the chambers of Akhethetep
considerable wall-spaces so prepared were left
entirely untouched by the chisel; in other
places the sculptor has done his work imper-
ii; !P ^
^ishable fr
•either in si
sign itself,
lathe should
iftietep (e
jrtaa carek
:, There are eg
pitted or tt
\m which w
<
some ^
sculptured th
■ili although
0
%d to b
'-fenecropo
' guarantee tl
i in its inscr
-we and iute
:t^ nomes—a
'Common c
;* the form
Shout
! far moi
i,;i*pletely
;;Shot
c°pies of
tf*"