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von Champollion.
301
betrachtet, welche nur erst gegen die Zeit ihres Ausganges sich zu einer Buchstabenschrift umzu-
bilden begann. Diese eigentliche Buchstabenschrift erhielten jedoch die Aegypter erst durch das
Koptische Alphabet 4},
Die Meinung des Herrn Professors wird am besten durch die Vorlegung des Aethiopischen
Alphabetes selbst erläutert.
6, 10. N0E ET Et|gN TTTB, auf die Weise, wie im Himmel; 6, 12. NGE g(DO)N ON E TNKü) EBOÄ, anf die Weise,
wie wir vergeben; 7, 17. TAI TB GE Nü)HN NIM ENANC-yf.] E U)A(|TAyE KApTTOC EBOÄ ENANOyq, auf
die Weise bringt jeder gute Baum gute Frucht (man bemerke, wie sich TE="* in die Partikelbedeutung verliert); 7,29.
Aya) NGE AN NNEyrpAMMATEyC, und nicht nacli Art der etc.; Act. Ap. 1, 11. TAI TE GE ETECjNHy -
FlMOC NGE NT ATETNNAy Epoq E(]N ABOOK EgpAl E TTTE, hoc modo veniet quo modo vidistis eum abilu-
r„m in^coelum; 2, 15. NGE NTOOTN ETBTNMEEyE, so wie ihr meint; 2, 22. KATA 6E NTOOTN
ETFTNCOOyN, so wie ihr wisst; 2, 45. KATA TAI 9E ET EpE TTOyA TTOyA, so wie ein jeder etc. Das
0E = GH entspricht vollkommen dem Memphitischen pH'f", welches daher häufigst in den Sahid, Parallelsiellen steht, wie
z. B. Matth. 17, 2. (Memph.) MfppH'f M(j)pH, nach der Weise der Sonne, M(])pHi~ MTTlOyOOtNl, nach Weise des
Lichtes, (Sahid.) NGE MTTpH, NGE MTTOyOElN. Stände daher die Redensart TAI TE GE (vergl. über GE Tüki
Rudimente Linguae Coptae. Horn. 1778. p. 234-23G., über TAI TE GE L 1. p. 577-57.0.) nicht öfter als Matth. 18, 35.
20, 16. 26, 46.; Luc. 12, 21.; Juan. 3, 14. 18, 22.; Act. Ap. 7, 8. 8, 32. 9, 27. 12, 15. 13, 8. 47. 17, 33. 19, 20. 20,35.;
üovi. 11, 5.; 1 Cor. 2, 11. 9, 14. 11, 12. 28. 14, 9.; Jac. 2, 17. 3, 5.; Zoega Catal. codd. Copt. p. 270. 271. 273. 420.
439. 469. 480. 481. 485. 497. 507. 528. 533. 566. 570. 592. 595. 598. 600. , so wäre diess doch häufig genug, um sich
durch Klaproth's Einwurf den Anschein zu geben, als habe man auch nicht einen Blick in ein Sahidisches Buch geworfen.
Das vollkommene Synonym des GE ist übrigens das Sahidische gp; s. u. a. Matth. 22, 12. 43. 26, 54.; Luc. 11, 11.
12, 5. 15. 15, 10.; Joan. 4, 6. 9. 7, 15. 9, 16. 19.; Rotn. 10, 14. 15.
1) Wall Inquiry. p. 81. The names of the Greek sovereigns of Egypt and of the earlier Roman emperors have
been discovered, nearly to a certainty, written in hieroglyphic characters emp!o3'ed with phonetic powers. The latest
name, ascertained to be thus expressed, is that of the Emperor Antoninus Pius, which 'brings down the use of hieroglyphic
writing in Egypt to A. D. 161; and Clemens must have been boru at tbis time, or not very long nfler. p. 13. Althuugh
Clemens includes the employnient of hieroglyphs as letters in Iiis aecount of the different kinds of Egyptiau writing, yet
he does not make mention of any kind purely alphabetic. The Egyptians, therefore, had no such writing tili after bis age,
and die oldest they could have had was the Graeco-Coptic. But all (he remaius of this writing which have come down to
our times, were evidently the produclions of Christians, p. 148. The Egyptians in their phonetic practice generally g«ve
their characters syllabic powers, and never used them as consonants except in the comparalively few instances in which
they were followed by hieroglyphs denoting vowels. p. 158. The name in the example before us is phouetically written
PSaMeTiK; which, however, is no proof that the new System (d. i. das syllabische) commeuced so early in Egypt as
during the reign of this monarch; for inscriptions in honour of such a distinguished priuee might be made long after Iiis
death; but I think it shows that phonetic writing must have begun there before the time of the Ptolemies, because it could
hardly be supposed that, during their dynasty, inscriptions should be allowed in honour of any of the sovereigns of the
Egyptiau race. — it may be remarked that there is not a Single vowel sign in this name; which circumstance, on the
principler already explained, tallies with the supposition of Us having been written uear the introduetion of the phonetic
System. Had there been any such signs here, or, at least, had there been any such combined in the saine syllables with
consonants, and consequeutly forcing these latter to be nsed with consonantal powers; they would have atrorded internal
evidence of the group not having been formed for some time after that epoch; as it is quite impossible (?) that men in their
first use of phonetic characters could employ them otherwise than with syllabic powers. However, on the other band, it
is not likely that the inscriptiou Mas made at the very commencement of this kind of wriling; for if il Vm, a greater dif-
ference might be expected between the characters in it and those employed in the expression of Greek and Roman names:
the probability therefore is, that it was not insculped tili some time after the reign of Psammelichus. Whatever may have
been the precise interval, the Egyptians had, during the whole of it, the benefit of Greek records , so that the correetness
of the insculpture can be depended on, as well as if it had been made in the actual life-time of the monarch; wheuce it
appears, that Europeaus wrongly annexed the terminatiou os to this Egyptiau name in like mauuer as Egyptians addod it
lncorrectly to the Roman title, Caesar.
301
betrachtet, welche nur erst gegen die Zeit ihres Ausganges sich zu einer Buchstabenschrift umzu-
bilden begann. Diese eigentliche Buchstabenschrift erhielten jedoch die Aegypter erst durch das
Koptische Alphabet 4},
Die Meinung des Herrn Professors wird am besten durch die Vorlegung des Aethiopischen
Alphabetes selbst erläutert.
6, 10. N0E ET Et|gN TTTB, auf die Weise, wie im Himmel; 6, 12. NGE g(DO)N ON E TNKü) EBOÄ, anf die Weise,
wie wir vergeben; 7, 17. TAI TB GE Nü)HN NIM ENANC-yf.] E U)A(|TAyE KApTTOC EBOÄ ENANOyq, auf
die Weise bringt jeder gute Baum gute Frucht (man bemerke, wie sich TE="* in die Partikelbedeutung verliert); 7,29.
Aya) NGE AN NNEyrpAMMATEyC, und nicht nacli Art der etc.; Act. Ap. 1, 11. TAI TE GE ETECjNHy -
FlMOC NGE NT ATETNNAy Epoq E(]N ABOOK EgpAl E TTTE, hoc modo veniet quo modo vidistis eum abilu-
r„m in^coelum; 2, 15. NGE NTOOTN ETBTNMEEyE, so wie ihr meint; 2, 22. KATA 6E NTOOTN
ETFTNCOOyN, so wie ihr wisst; 2, 45. KATA TAI 9E ET EpE TTOyA TTOyA, so wie ein jeder etc. Das
0E = GH entspricht vollkommen dem Memphitischen pH'f", welches daher häufigst in den Sahid, Parallelsiellen steht, wie
z. B. Matth. 17, 2. (Memph.) MfppH'f M(j)pH, nach der Weise der Sonne, M(])pHi~ MTTlOyOOtNl, nach Weise des
Lichtes, (Sahid.) NGE MTTpH, NGE MTTOyOElN. Stände daher die Redensart TAI TE GE (vergl. über GE Tüki
Rudimente Linguae Coptae. Horn. 1778. p. 234-23G., über TAI TE GE L 1. p. 577-57.0.) nicht öfter als Matth. 18, 35.
20, 16. 26, 46.; Luc. 12, 21.; Juan. 3, 14. 18, 22.; Act. Ap. 7, 8. 8, 32. 9, 27. 12, 15. 13, 8. 47. 17, 33. 19, 20. 20,35.;
üovi. 11, 5.; 1 Cor. 2, 11. 9, 14. 11, 12. 28. 14, 9.; Jac. 2, 17. 3, 5.; Zoega Catal. codd. Copt. p. 270. 271. 273. 420.
439. 469. 480. 481. 485. 497. 507. 528. 533. 566. 570. 592. 595. 598. 600. , so wäre diess doch häufig genug, um sich
durch Klaproth's Einwurf den Anschein zu geben, als habe man auch nicht einen Blick in ein Sahidisches Buch geworfen.
Das vollkommene Synonym des GE ist übrigens das Sahidische gp; s. u. a. Matth. 22, 12. 43. 26, 54.; Luc. 11, 11.
12, 5. 15. 15, 10.; Joan. 4, 6. 9. 7, 15. 9, 16. 19.; Rotn. 10, 14. 15.
1) Wall Inquiry. p. 81. The names of the Greek sovereigns of Egypt and of the earlier Roman emperors have
been discovered, nearly to a certainty, written in hieroglyphic characters emp!o3'ed with phonetic powers. The latest
name, ascertained to be thus expressed, is that of the Emperor Antoninus Pius, which 'brings down the use of hieroglyphic
writing in Egypt to A. D. 161; and Clemens must have been boru at tbis time, or not very long nfler. p. 13. Althuugh
Clemens includes the employnient of hieroglyphs as letters in Iiis aecount of the different kinds of Egyptiau writing, yet
he does not make mention of any kind purely alphabetic. The Egyptians, therefore, had no such writing tili after bis age,
and die oldest they could have had was the Graeco-Coptic. But all (he remaius of this writing which have come down to
our times, were evidently the produclions of Christians, p. 148. The Egyptians in their phonetic practice generally g«ve
their characters syllabic powers, and never used them as consonants except in the comparalively few instances in which
they were followed by hieroglyphs denoting vowels. p. 158. The name in the example before us is phouetically written
PSaMeTiK; which, however, is no proof that the new System (d. i. das syllabische) commeuced so early in Egypt as
during the reign of this monarch; for inscriptions in honour of such a distinguished priuee might be made long after Iiis
death; but I think it shows that phonetic writing must have begun there before the time of the Ptolemies, because it could
hardly be supposed that, during their dynasty, inscriptions should be allowed in honour of any of the sovereigns of the
Egyptiau race. — it may be remarked that there is not a Single vowel sign in this name; which circumstance, on the
principler already explained, tallies with the supposition of Us having been written uear the introduetion of the phonetic
System. Had there been any such signs here, or, at least, had there been any such combined in the saine syllables with
consonants, and consequeutly forcing these latter to be nsed with consonantal powers; they would have atrorded internal
evidence of the group not having been formed for some time after that epoch; as it is quite impossible (?) that men in their
first use of phonetic characters could employ them otherwise than with syllabic powers. However, on the other band, it
is not likely that the inscriptiou Mas made at the very commencement of this kind of wriling; for if il Vm, a greater dif-
ference might be expected between the characters in it and those employed in the expression of Greek and Roman names:
the probability therefore is, that it was not insculped tili some time after the reign of Psammelichus. Whatever may have
been the precise interval, the Egyptians had, during the whole of it, the benefit of Greek records , so that the correetness
of the insculpture can be depended on, as well as if it had been made in the actual life-time of the monarch; wheuce it
appears, that Europeaus wrongly annexed the terminatiou os to this Egyptiau name in like mauuer as Egyptians addod it
lncorrectly to the Roman title, Caesar.