. The decrees of Memphis and Canopus . dd another letter to ouralphabet. Continuing this method, Champollion learned from the name of Hadrian ^ ^T^, that rO = h, and fl = some vowel sound like i; and from the name of Antoninus that = ta, and ^ = s (Mr. Bankes had already shown that 0 = n) ; and from two forms of the name Tiberius that J = ^ = b. Finally he constructed the alphabet, of which a re-production by photographic process is shown on theopposite page. Further study caused Champollion todiscover the values of a number of sijUahic hieroglyphicsigns, and also to work out tlie principles o
. The decrees of Memphis and Canopus . dd another letter to ouralphabet. Continuing this method, Champollion learned from the name of Hadrian ^ ^T^, that rO = h, and fl = some vowel sound like i; and from the name of Antoninus that = ta, and ^ = s (Mr. Bankes had already shown that 0 = n) ; and from two forms of the name Tiberius that J = ^ = b. Finally he constructed the alphabet, of which a re-production by photographic process is shown on theopposite page. Further study caused Champollion todiscover the values of a number of sijUahic hieroglyphicsigns, and also to work out tlie principles on which thesigns which were used as determinatives were em-ployed ; his good knowledge of Coptic enabled him tosuggest phonetic values for the words and signs ofwhich he knew the meaning from Greek sources, andhe was greatly helped by his careful and constantexamination of parallel passages in texts. Now,although his hieroglyphic alphabet was only a de-velopment of Youngs, as we have already seen, there PTOLEMY, CLEOPATRA, BERENICE 12. The names of Ptolemy, Cleopatra, and Berenice analysed by ChnmpoUion{Prfcig du Siyatetue, plate facing p. 21), VOL. I. K 128 CHAMPOLLION AND YOUNG is no doubt whatsoever that it was his philologicalability and his power to work incessantly whichenabled him to open the second phase of hieroglyphicdiscovery, and the value of his text-publications toEgyptology from 1822 to the year of his death isincontestable. In 1824 he published a Lettre toLetronne on the expression in phonetics of the namesof Petemenon and Cleopatra, and in the same yearappeared his Precis du Systeme Hieroglyphiqiie desAnciens Bgyptiens, Paris, 8vo., wherein the first partof the latter work contains a number of remarks onYoungs system which are somewhat surprising; ofthese two will be sufficient to show Champollionsdisingenuousness. On p. 28 he says, II est clair quela theorie du docteur Young seloigne en elle-meme aussi essentiellement de la mienne, que les resultats obtenus pa
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