Wilkinson, John Gardner: Extracts from several hieroglyphical subjects, found at Thebes and other parts of Egypt: with remarks on the same ([La Valletta], Malta, 1830)

PREFACE.

A copy of the following pages were sent to
England, in 1827, for publication; but owing to some
mistake, they have not been printed, though I had
supposed them already in the press, and have referred
to them in the papers of 1828. I have consequently,
and subsequently had printed, in Egypt, some corrected
copies of them, and as some of the plates differ in
little, or nothing, from those which originally be-
longed to this work, I have omitted them, and refer
the reader to those of 1828; though, to prevent con-
fusion, I have kept up the former order of each plate,
in the text, and mentioned in the notes, to which it
corresponds in*the other work. Some plates, and
part of the text are also omitted, as being more fully
treated of in the above mentioned papers. The reader
will perceive that Plate II is here omitted, being the
same as the Plates I, II, III of the Materia Hierogly-
phica, Part II. Plate III is the Plate V of the same
work; and as the contents of Plate VII will be found
in the Vocabulary (Appendix No. 2) it has been here
omitted altogether; as well as the tablet of Abydus,
for which I refer him to Plate IX.