DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.3720#0221
204 HIEROGLYPHS.
lary;' in which year Mr. Osburn,2 also a Coptic scholar, had
thrown considerable light upon many points. The work of
Crreppo,3 in the same year, although it added nothing to the
study, yet gave a lucid account of the discovery. During this
time the European residents in Egypt had shown considerable
activity; and some of the most remarkable inscriptions had.
been copied and published by Sir Gr. Wilkinson, Mr. Hali-
burton,4 and Mr. Bonomi.
Immediately on the return of the Erench expedition, in 1829,
Klaproth5 renewed his attack upon Champollion, who had
pointed out in a masterly manner his daring errors in Coptic.
In the next year Janelli,6 a Neapolitan, writer, published an
account of the Rosetta stone on the old ideographic theory.
In 1832 appeared the first fruits of the second expedition to
Egypt, in the publication of " The Monuments of Egypt," by
Eosellini,r who had accompanied the expedition from Tuscany,
having been joined to it at the request of the Grand Duke,
and to whom the publication of "The Historical Monuments"
was confided. The Italian Egyptologist, although by no means
endowed with the talents or knowledge of Champollion, yet, by
his perseverance, and the solidity of his judgment, must be
1 Materia Hieroglypliica, 4to. Malta, 1S2S.
2 Osburn (W.), An Account of an Egyptian Mummy, presented to the
Museum at Leeds, 8vo. Leeds, 1828.
3 Essai sur le Systcme Hieroglyphique, Svo. Paris, 1S29, translated by M.
Stuart, 12mo. Boston, 1830.
* J. (Hali)Burton, Excerpta Hieroglypliica, long fo. Cairo, 1826-9.
5 Collection des Antiquites recueillees par M. le Chevalier Palin, fo.
Paris, 1829.
6 Fundamenta Hermeneutica Hieroglyphics} cryptic* veterum Gentium, Svo.
Neapol. 1830; Hieroglypliica iEgyptia, Svo. Neapol. 1S30; Tentamen Herme-
neuticum, Svo. Neapol. 1831. See Cullimore in Trans. Hoy. Soc. Lit. 1S39,
ii. 75.
1 Monumenti d'Egitto e della Nubia, Svo. with plates, fo. Pisa, 1832.
lary;' in which year Mr. Osburn,2 also a Coptic scholar, had
thrown considerable light upon many points. The work of
Crreppo,3 in the same year, although it added nothing to the
study, yet gave a lucid account of the discovery. During this
time the European residents in Egypt had shown considerable
activity; and some of the most remarkable inscriptions had.
been copied and published by Sir Gr. Wilkinson, Mr. Hali-
burton,4 and Mr. Bonomi.
Immediately on the return of the Erench expedition, in 1829,
Klaproth5 renewed his attack upon Champollion, who had
pointed out in a masterly manner his daring errors in Coptic.
In the next year Janelli,6 a Neapolitan, writer, published an
account of the Rosetta stone on the old ideographic theory.
In 1832 appeared the first fruits of the second expedition to
Egypt, in the publication of " The Monuments of Egypt," by
Eosellini,r who had accompanied the expedition from Tuscany,
having been joined to it at the request of the Grand Duke,
and to whom the publication of "The Historical Monuments"
was confided. The Italian Egyptologist, although by no means
endowed with the talents or knowledge of Champollion, yet, by
his perseverance, and the solidity of his judgment, must be
1 Materia Hieroglypliica, 4to. Malta, 1S2S.
2 Osburn (W.), An Account of an Egyptian Mummy, presented to the
Museum at Leeds, 8vo. Leeds, 1828.
3 Essai sur le Systcme Hieroglyphique, Svo. Paris, 1S29, translated by M.
Stuart, 12mo. Boston, 1830.
* J. (Hali)Burton, Excerpta Hieroglypliica, long fo. Cairo, 1826-9.
5 Collection des Antiquites recueillees par M. le Chevalier Palin, fo.
Paris, 1829.
6 Fundamenta Hermeneutica Hieroglyphics} cryptic* veterum Gentium, Svo.
Neapol. 1830; Hieroglypliica iEgyptia, Svo. Neapol. 1S30; Tentamen Herme-
neuticum, Svo. Neapol. 1831. See Cullimore in Trans. Hoy. Soc. Lit. 1S39,
ii. 75.
1 Monumenti d'Egitto e della Nubia, Svo. with plates, fo. Pisa, 1832.