Schwartze, Moritz Gotthilf: Das alte Aegypten oder Sprache, Geschichte, Religion und Verfassung des alten Aegyptens: nach den altägyptischen Original-Schriften und den Mittheilungen der nichtägyptischen alten Schriftsteller (Band 1) (Leipzig, 1843)

von Young.

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von uns alsbald vorzulegenden Abbildung ersieht man aber, dass Young unter dem b-«.-=1>T von
Ptolemäps nicht ein zusammen gehörendes Wortzeichen (vgl. oben p; 185.), sondern zwei Bucli-
staben und demnach zu Folge seiner Theorie eigentlich zwei Wortzeichen, welche die Entstehung
von zwei Buchstaben veranlassten, erblickte. Ausser diesen beiden Namen glaubte jedoch Young
in dem Artikel Egypten auch noch ein drittes, von uns mit Y bezeichnetes Oval als den Namen
der Arsinoc erkannt zu haben.

Y. I. *j III.
Y. II. ,v.

Die äusseren Gründe, welche Young zu dieser Vermuthung leiteten, sind unten 2) deutlich

Philadelphia, was Berenice, whose name is fouud on a ceiling at Karnak, in die phrase, „Plolemy aud. . Berenice
the savionr gods". In this name we appear (o have anorber specialen of syllabic and alphabetical wriiing combined, in
a manner not extremely unlike die ludicrous mixdires of words and Ikings wiih which children are sometimes amused;
for however Warburton's indignation might be excited by such a comparison, it is perfectly true that, occasionally
.,the sublime difiers from the ridiculous by a siugle step ouly". The first character of the hieroglyphic name is preci-
sely of the same form with a basket represented at ßyban EI Molouc, and called, in the jesoriptlon, „panier a anses;"
;»nd a basket, in Coptic, is BIB. The oval, which reseuibles an eye without the pupil, means elsewbere „to," which iu
Poptlc is Ej the waved liue is „of", and nuist be rendered N; the feathers I; the Utile footstool seeius to be superfluous;
die goose is KR, or KEN; Kircher gives Iis KEXESOÜ for a goose, but the ESOÜ means gregarious, probably in contra-
distiuciion to the Egyptian sheldrake, aud the simple etymon approaches to the name of a goose in mauy otber languages.

have therefore, litterally Bibknice; or, if (he N must be inserted, the accusative Birbnicen, wbich may easily have
been coufounded by (he Egyptians with the nominative. The final characters are merely the feminine termination. The
enchorial (ext affords us a remarkable instance of (he diversi(y which was allowed in the mode of representing the same
»ame. The first character has not the least resemblauce (o the'basket; but (he first and second together are very com-
monly used in (he manuscripts, as a coarse representalion of a boat, which was called BARI, or possibly BEBE, for it
is doubtful, whether Kircher had any ollier aulhorily than that of Diodorns for BAUI: and the Word BEREZOUTS is used
f°r another vehicle. The enchorial N may possibly have been derived from a horizonlal line, lurued up at oue end; we
have then the three dashes for the I, aud the two angles seem to have answered to the KE, for a bird is not udcoui-
toonly scribbled in some such manner; so that we have either Bahimck or Behekick, by a combination somewhat differ-
eut from the former.

t) Zu Y. I., Y. II. s. Young Eyypt. Hieroy}. Vocab. pl. LXXV. no. 60. 61. vgl. 7,11 Y. II. bei uns p. 313. 110. 0.
~~ Zu Hl. iv. s. bei uns p, 351. no. 2. VI. — Zu V. — VII. s. ibid. 11. p. 353. no. 2. IV.

2) Young Effypf. no. 59. — 65. The temple at Ombos was dedicated, as we find from the Greek inscription co-
I'ied by Mr. Hamilton, „in the name of the divine Plolemy Philometor aud Cleopalra, and their children to Arueris Apollo
ilnd the olher gods of the temple by the infantry and cavalry-of the nome." We may, therefore, expect to find in it the
n»mes of diese'sovereigns, together with those of some or all of the earlier Plolemies; and, accordingly, we are able to
determiue, without difficully, some epithets which seem to be characteristic of this and the two preceding reigns; but, hi-
•berto, nolhing has beeu observed that can be cousidered as so clearly deuoling eilher Philadelphia and Iiis queen Arsi-
u°e, or Euergetes and bis Berenice, althongh some assistance might have been derived, in identifying lliem, from (he en-
cl'0rial (ext of Rosetta. We have, however, in the same temple, a name, evidenlly Compound, iu which a basilisc is fol-
lowed by two feathers and a bent line (vgl. bei uns p. 313, ß.) uuc| to judge from a comparison of the enchorial text with the ma-
'"iseripts, a basilisc ought to be the emblem of EUERGETES; the part of the name preceding it is, however, not Berenice,
«nd must, therefore, iu all probability, be ARSINOE, the daughter of Euergetes. But it seems impossible to attempt to
••'onipare the characters employed wilh the sounds; since they somelimes occur in au inverted order, which the sounds