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and does honour to the government, of Mohammed AH Pasha,
who, on this occasion, as well as on many others, I have reason to
testify, has shewn a remarkable liberality in facilitating the re-
searches carried on by Europeans in any way connected with
science."
"The whole expense of these operations amounted to about
18,000 piastres (450Z.); and I have to add, that Captain Caviglia,
to whom by our engagement was left the disposal of every thing
that might be discovered, very handsomely requested me to for-
ward the whole, of what I might think interesting, to the British
Museum, as a testimony of his attachment to our country, under
the Hag of which he had for some years sailed."
MR. BIRCH'S NOTE ON THE LARGE TABLET.
SEE PLATE.
Tins tablet represents a proscynema, or act of adoration, offered to
the Sphinx by Thothmes IV. or V., supposed to have reigned 1446 b.c.9
The upper part is divided by a perpendicular line of hieroglyphics,
which expresses the following declaration of the Sphinx, " We decree,
that the sun, the establisher of the world (Re-men-tor),1 shall be
crowned on the throne of Seb; that Thothmes, the crown of crowns,
shall be adorned with the glory of A thorn."
In each of the two upper compartments, a sphinx is seated on a
s Sir J. G. Wilkinson is of opinion, that Pliny's assertion that the Sphinx
is the tomb of Amasis is owing to a mistake in the names Amosis and
Tuthmosis; becaase Herodotus distinctly says that the tomb of Amasis was
near the Temple of Minerva at Sais.—" Manners and Customs of the Antient
Egyptians," Vol. I. p. 192. And in Vol. III. p. 23, he remarks that sphinxes
were emblems of the Egyptian kings, and that, when composed of the head
of a man, and of the body of a lion, signified the union of intellect with
physical force. There were two kings of the name of Amasis, one the last of
the XVIIth dynasty, and the other of the XXVIth or Saite dynasty. Hence
the assertions of Pliny and Herodotus may be reconciled.
1 It has been usual to read the beetle in the cartouches the word TO,
the world, because, with particular determinatives, it is thus found. Cf. Champ.
Gr. p. 98, but it is the first of a phonetic group, Tp Tar. or Tor, signifying
to plant, pledge, &c. Cf. Champ. Gr. Eg. p. 363, Salv. i. An. Gr. 41,75. The
expression Re-men-to is, therefore, more properly Re-men-tor. The scarabasus
at the Roman period was employed phonetically for T in proper names.
The repetition of this phrase seems to infer that the adoration had been
made about the period of the coronation.
APPENDIX.
and does honour to the government, of Mohammed AH Pasha,
who, on this occasion, as well as on many others, I have reason to
testify, has shewn a remarkable liberality in facilitating the re-
searches carried on by Europeans in any way connected with
science."
"The whole expense of these operations amounted to about
18,000 piastres (450Z.); and I have to add, that Captain Caviglia,
to whom by our engagement was left the disposal of every thing
that might be discovered, very handsomely requested me to for-
ward the whole, of what I might think interesting, to the British
Museum, as a testimony of his attachment to our country, under
the Hag of which he had for some years sailed."
MR. BIRCH'S NOTE ON THE LARGE TABLET.
SEE PLATE.
Tins tablet represents a proscynema, or act of adoration, offered to
the Sphinx by Thothmes IV. or V., supposed to have reigned 1446 b.c.9
The upper part is divided by a perpendicular line of hieroglyphics,
which expresses the following declaration of the Sphinx, " We decree,
that the sun, the establisher of the world (Re-men-tor),1 shall be
crowned on the throne of Seb; that Thothmes, the crown of crowns,
shall be adorned with the glory of A thorn."
In each of the two upper compartments, a sphinx is seated on a
s Sir J. G. Wilkinson is of opinion, that Pliny's assertion that the Sphinx
is the tomb of Amasis is owing to a mistake in the names Amosis and
Tuthmosis; becaase Herodotus distinctly says that the tomb of Amasis was
near the Temple of Minerva at Sais.—" Manners and Customs of the Antient
Egyptians," Vol. I. p. 192. And in Vol. III. p. 23, he remarks that sphinxes
were emblems of the Egyptian kings, and that, when composed of the head
of a man, and of the body of a lion, signified the union of intellect with
physical force. There were two kings of the name of Amasis, one the last of
the XVIIth dynasty, and the other of the XXVIth or Saite dynasty. Hence
the assertions of Pliny and Herodotus may be reconciled.
1 It has been usual to read the beetle in the cartouches the word TO,
the world, because, with particular determinatives, it is thus found. Cf. Champ.
Gr. p. 98, but it is the first of a phonetic group, Tp Tar. or Tor, signifying
to plant, pledge, &c. Cf. Champ. Gr. Eg. p. 363, Salv. i. An. Gr. 41,75. The
expression Re-men-to is, therefore, more properly Re-men-tor. The scarabasus
at the Roman period was employed phonetically for T in proper names.
The repetition of this phrase seems to infer that the adoration had been
made about the period of the coronation.