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OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEII.
Sensaophis is false, owing to an error of the transcriber,
which has been adopted by subsequent editors through
the want of a proper analysis of the passage. After men-
tioning the first Saophis, Eratosthenes gives in his cata-
logue, Qr^utuv ig s^otffikBUffsv ^ivcuapis: |3' where the asv of
e%ecffi7,sv(Tzv is affixed to LaSpig. |3'; there being no other
Sensaophis in his list (see Eratosthenica, Godfred. Bern-
hard. 8vo. Berlin, 1822). The whole value of M. Rosel-
lini's reading rests on the supposition that the vase and
the animal (the ram) placed after it reads sen, and signifies
a Brother; but it is well known to all occupied in philolo-
gical researches upon Hieroglyphics, that no such combin-
ation has hitherto been found: which fact is alone suffi-
cient to destroy the felicity of M. Rosellini's theory, and
has already given rise to considerable doubts as to the
general correctness of his reading. The presence of this
name, as a quarry-mark, in the Great Pyramid, is an
additional embarrassment.
" The other name discovered with it, which he had
already observed in an adjacent tomb, and conjectured to
be that of Cheops, demonstrates at the same time the
value of the phonetic system, and the ingenuity of the
learned Italian. It is composed of elements purely pho-
netic, and is decidedly a name. It has also been published
by Mr. Wilkinson, mater. Hieroglyph, unplaced King's;
and M. Rosellini, torn. i. tav. 1, 2, and reads Shoufou
(Suphis), or Khoufou (Cheops), according to the aspir-
ation given to the initial — a sieve (jjj), which appears in
Mr. Wilkinson's work without any distinction from the
solar disc. The merit of assigning it to Cheops belongs
to M. Rosellini.
OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEII.
Sensaophis is false, owing to an error of the transcriber,
which has been adopted by subsequent editors through
the want of a proper analysis of the passage. After men-
tioning the first Saophis, Eratosthenes gives in his cata-
logue, Qr^utuv ig s^otffikBUffsv ^ivcuapis: |3' where the asv of
e%ecffi7,sv(Tzv is affixed to LaSpig. |3'; there being no other
Sensaophis in his list (see Eratosthenica, Godfred. Bern-
hard. 8vo. Berlin, 1822). The whole value of M. Rosel-
lini's reading rests on the supposition that the vase and
the animal (the ram) placed after it reads sen, and signifies
a Brother; but it is well known to all occupied in philolo-
gical researches upon Hieroglyphics, that no such combin-
ation has hitherto been found: which fact is alone suffi-
cient to destroy the felicity of M. Rosellini's theory, and
has already given rise to considerable doubts as to the
general correctness of his reading. The presence of this
name, as a quarry-mark, in the Great Pyramid, is an
additional embarrassment.
" The other name discovered with it, which he had
already observed in an adjacent tomb, and conjectured to
be that of Cheops, demonstrates at the same time the
value of the phonetic system, and the ingenuity of the
learned Italian. It is composed of elements purely pho-
netic, and is decidedly a name. It has also been published
by Mr. Wilkinson, mater. Hieroglyph, unplaced King's;
and M. Rosellini, torn. i. tav. 1, 2, and reads Shoufou
(Suphis), or Khoufou (Cheops), according to the aspir-
ation given to the initial — a sieve (jjj), which appears in
Mr. Wilkinson's work without any distinction from the
solar disc. The merit of assigning it to Cheops belongs
to M. Rosellini.