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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nomen, as in the Theba'id. One more remark I have to
offer, before I enter upon Plate II, which, I confess, is not
at all consonant with the ideas of Dr. Young and Monsr
Champollion ; that the square beneath the hawk, containing
sometimes a bull' and arm, sometimes other devices, does
not refer to the god, in whose honor the monument was
raised, but to the king whose name always follows it; and
to this I have been led, by the following circumstance:
wherever a king has erased the name of a predecessor, and
inserted his own in its stead, the hieroglyphics in this
square (14) have also been erased, and changed; they can-
not therefore refer to the god, to whom the building was
erected, otherwise the dedication, and other sculptures con-
taining his name would also be altered, throughout the same
monument : we should likewise find all the different names
of kings, in the same temple, preceded by a square, con-
taining the same devices, as relating to the deity of that
temple, which is not the case.

I think the point is clearly established, that the bull and
arm, and other devices, contained (1) in this square, refer
to the king, and not to the deity; I next wish to prove that
the hawk also relates to Aim. It is not unusual, to find on
obelisks, and architraves, the figure of Amunre (2) giving
" life" to this hawk, and we can scarcely suppose, that
tliis deity would be represented, as giving life to the god

(14) May this be the magna doraus of Horapollo, which he says signi-
fied king ? the reed and bee (or rather vufy) may be translated by the " king
of men" of Homer.

(1) Sometimes the lines forming this square are oniittcd.

(2) Vide also Plate I, No. 9.