Howard-Vyse, Richard William Howard: Operations carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: with an account of a voyage into upper Egypt, and Appendix (Band 1) (London, 1840)

284 OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEH.

is accompanied by numerals. The first instance presents

tive of the decimal has probably been rubbed off, since the

21/ which would make the number of the preceding block
' 18.' After 21, a single unmarked block occurs, then

_ . Ju which signifies Nofre, 2, 3. No analogy between

Nofre and South has been as yet discovered. The blocks
on the opposite quarter are marked with a koucoupha
sceptre, called gom, or torn, apparently with reference to
strength, power, &c, the Coptic Xoju.. One block bears
this symbol by itself, and the other with the numerals IV.
gom IV. At the east end the symbol Nofre again occurs
with some other marks apparently numerals, but imperfect
and indistinct, and at the joint is a gazelle couchant having
before it a sword, or glaive.

" Hieroglyphics are at present so imperfectly under-
stood, that it is difficult to give an explanation of the whole
of these signs, many of which may after all have been
merely appropriate to masonry; it is indeed equally so to
assign for what reasons the South should have been con-
sidered ' the Happy or Gracious,' and the North, ' the
Powerful' quarter."

May 28///. — The following articles were sent to the
Consulate for Colonel Campbell — a small image of leaf
gold, found in the fosse of Campbell's Tomb, and a few
trifling ornaments of ivory, found near the Sarcophagus;

' Nofre, eight,' where the recurved line indica-

block next but two in succession has

inni

' Nofre,