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200 HIEROGLYPHS.
in the seventh place, but did not, as might hare been expected,
appear in the second of Ptolemy.
Long researches had, however, convinced the inquirer of the
existence of homophones, or characters having the same value,
interchanged in proper names with one another. The second
place of Ptolemy was occupied by a hieroglyph, often repeated
at the end of female proper names, and apparently the T, or
feminine Coptic article.
8. The eighth place in Cleopatra was occupied by a mouth, in
Coptic ro, and was consequently the E <^> . It did not
occur in Ptolemy, in which there is no E.
9. The eagle was the sixth sign, and recurred twice in its
right place in Cleopatra.
10. The semicircle was the second of Ptolemy, and in con-
junction with
11. The egg, was found at the end of female proper names,
and did not appear essential to the sound.
In the name of Ptolemy there are, consequently, the fifth,
m, and last sign, s, only to explain. All the others had been
found in their proper order.
By comparing the two names with that of Alexander, he
obtained the probable value in sound of fifteen phonetic hiero-
glyphs ; and it soon became evident that, by examining other
names of the Persian, Greek, and Eoman rulers of the country,
the greater part of the phonetic hieroglyphs in use from the
time of Cambyses till the middle period of the Eoman Empire
could be developed. Hence Champollion, with remarkable
tact, discovered this Persian name, and those as well as the
titles of the Eoman emperors, which turned out to be in the
Greek language—that in which they are placed on the cur-
rency: as Autocrator for Imperator or Emperor, Kaisar for
Csesar, and Sehastos for Augustus. This alone was an immense
in the seventh place, but did not, as might hare been expected,
appear in the second of Ptolemy.
Long researches had, however, convinced the inquirer of the
existence of homophones, or characters having the same value,
interchanged in proper names with one another. The second
place of Ptolemy was occupied by a hieroglyph, often repeated
at the end of female proper names, and apparently the T, or
feminine Coptic article.
8. The eighth place in Cleopatra was occupied by a mouth, in
Coptic ro, and was consequently the E <^> . It did not
occur in Ptolemy, in which there is no E.
9. The eagle was the sixth sign, and recurred twice in its
right place in Cleopatra.
10. The semicircle was the second of Ptolemy, and in con-
junction with
11. The egg, was found at the end of female proper names,
and did not appear essential to the sound.
In the name of Ptolemy there are, consequently, the fifth,
m, and last sign, s, only to explain. All the others had been
found in their proper order.
By comparing the two names with that of Alexander, he
obtained the probable value in sound of fifteen phonetic hiero-
glyphs ; and it soon became evident that, by examining other
names of the Persian, Greek, and Eoman rulers of the country,
the greater part of the phonetic hieroglyphs in use from the
time of Cambyses till the middle period of the Eoman Empire
could be developed. Hence Champollion, with remarkable
tact, discovered this Persian name, and those as well as the
titles of the Eoman emperors, which turned out to be in the
Greek language—that in which they are placed on the cur-
rency: as Autocrator for Imperator or Emperor, Kaisar for
Csesar, and Sehastos for Augustus. This alone was an immense