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)

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also a list of the predecessors of the king, who erected
that building, who is certainly posterior to the founder of
the Memnonium ; a fact which may be easily proved, by
the date of his temple, introduced into the great pile of
Karnak, as well as by the names at Medeenet Hdboo, the
tablet of the three kings (4) at Karnak, and those (5) of
the temple at old Qodrna.

Before I make any remarks on the disposition of the
names, which I have arranged in Plate II, I must observe:

1. That the phonetic names are always contained in
the oval, which follows " Son of the Sun" (the goose and
globe) which I shall distinguish by the word " nomen."(6)

2. That the other oval, or prenomen always contains
a title, derived from the name (J) of one, or more deities,
which serves to point out more particularly the king, to
whom both the ovals belong; and by which we are enabled
to distinguish two kings, bearing the same nomen, as in
the Amunophs, the Thothmes, and others, who can only
be recognised by the difference of their prenomens.

3. That in the temples, we sometimes find the nomen
of a later king accompanying the prenomen of one of his
predecessors, where he has been contented to change the
nomen only, and insert his own in its stead, leaving the
prenomen of the former king, as suiting his own name (in

(4) No. 8 Plate I. (5) No«. 9. 10. 11 Plate I.

(6) I have used the word name, as a general appellation of these ovala;
and nomen, only in contradistinction to prenomen.

(7) I need scarcely say, that the nomen was also formed in a similar
manner, from the names of the gods: sometimes too they were varied, by
substituting the phonetic, or symbolic characters, for the figures of the deities.