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cartouche was recorded in any place by the priests, or,
at all events, that it was not effaced after his death.
The quarry-marks in the chambers of construction in
the Great Pyramid, and upon the stones belonging to the
Second and Third, prove that hieroglyphics were made use
of before these buildings were erected ; and the inscriptions
in the tomb of Trades shew that they had been employed at
immediately preceding it. At a later period, both terms were abandoned,
and the term " royal scribe," the basilico-grammateus of the Greek in-
scriptions, appeared. II.—The term immediately following the cartouche
is rather ambiguous. It appears, in Burton's " Excerpta," to follow or
precede each of a small series of cartouches, according to the mode we
are willing to read them — the inscription being, unfortunately, imperfect.
M. Champollion, Gr. Eg. explains this as £jOrl, or "prophet priest,"
but affords no information as to the reason of such hypothesis. As the
title in the tombs and texts uniformly accompanies persons of the sacer-
dotal order, it is evidently some functionary of that class, as we have
prophets of Amoun, Phtah, Monthra, and almost every principal deity of
the Pantheon. But as the term is seldom placed absolutely by itself, and
is always prefixed to the name of the deity, of which the individual was
the priest, sometimes with the sign of the
genitive case interposed, it possibly refers to the
monarch ; and priests, or prophet-priests of the
monarch Remeses the Great, appear on some
steles. At this early epoch, however, the title
appears to have had some original signification
analogous to "greatGod," "gracious God," &c,
of a later time, as on the entrance of a Memphian
tomb of this era. B.M., Egyptian Saloon, behind
No. 64, the goddesses Athor and Neith are termed
— " Athor the goddess, mistress of the abode of the
sycaomore. Neith, the goddess resident in the abode of the king Re-thaf,"
or Shaf-re (Cejihren), where the symbols cannot signify "priest," and it
is impossible that they indicate " prophet of the goddess Athor."
fj]c no
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cartouche was recorded in any place by the priests, or,
at all events, that it was not effaced after his death.
The quarry-marks in the chambers of construction in
the Great Pyramid, and upon the stones belonging to the
Second and Third, prove that hieroglyphics were made use
of before these buildings were erected ; and the inscriptions
in the tomb of Trades shew that they had been employed at
immediately preceding it. At a later period, both terms were abandoned,
and the term " royal scribe," the basilico-grammateus of the Greek in-
scriptions, appeared. II.—The term immediately following the cartouche
is rather ambiguous. It appears, in Burton's " Excerpta," to follow or
precede each of a small series of cartouches, according to the mode we
are willing to read them — the inscription being, unfortunately, imperfect.
M. Champollion, Gr. Eg. explains this as £jOrl, or "prophet priest,"
but affords no information as to the reason of such hypothesis. As the
title in the tombs and texts uniformly accompanies persons of the sacer-
dotal order, it is evidently some functionary of that class, as we have
prophets of Amoun, Phtah, Monthra, and almost every principal deity of
the Pantheon. But as the term is seldom placed absolutely by itself, and
is always prefixed to the name of the deity, of which the individual was
the priest, sometimes with the sign of the
genitive case interposed, it possibly refers to the
monarch ; and priests, or prophet-priests of the
monarch Remeses the Great, appear on some
steles. At this early epoch, however, the title
appears to have had some original signification
analogous to "greatGod," "gracious God," &c,
of a later time, as on the entrance of a Memphian
tomb of this era. B.M., Egyptian Saloon, behind
No. 64, the goddesses Athor and Neith are termed
— " Athor the goddess, mistress of the abode of the
sycaomore. Neith, the goddess resident in the abode of the king Re-thaf,"
or Shaf-re (Cejihren), where the symbols cannot signify "priest," and it
is impossible that they indicate " prophet of the goddess Athor."
fj]c no