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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Ra, or Phre. The word Pharaoh, (3) or in the Hebrew text
Phrah, is the same as the Egyptian name, retained in the
modern Coptic word Pire ; and this title must be somewhere
on Egyptian monuments; the only two groups, which have
any claim to it, are this hawk and globe, and the goose and
sun ( "son of the sun")—I am inclined to give the prefe-
rence to the former. The globe and hawk were both em-
blems of the sun, and we sometimes find both, at others,
merely the globe, placed over the head of the king, when
offering to the gods, or on other occasions. In Qvery case
it will read Phrah ; and if Hermapion, in his translation,
had used the word " sun," instead of " Apollo," the sense
Mould have been much better. It is singular that the Greeks
never mention the name Pharaoh ; 1 can only account for
it in this way: that wherever it occured, they translated it,
as was the case here. In the obelisk of Hermapion (given
by Ammianus Marcellinus ) we should therefore read, in
the third column, instead of " the powerful Apollo," " the
powerful Prah (Pharaoh) the all-splendid son of the sun."

I have for these reasons, thought it better to intro-
duce the squares, in company with the names, found under
them, in the temples or other Egyptian remains; as they
may tend to throw some further light on the names them-
selves, when we become better acquainted with the study
of hieroglyphics.

In I'/ti/r /, is a comparison of the different series of
kings' names, found at Thebes, and Abydu's. In No. 2,

(Sy This title of the sun is given to some kings in the East, even at the
present day.