Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum . successionof the upper line may be constructed on the same plan. Although too many of the names inthe Abydos tablet are reproduced in that of Karnak, there appears as yet a want of monumentalevidence to enable any satisfactory clue to be seized relative to the succession of that , therefore, the progress of hieroglyphical discoveiy, the paucity of monuments,and, conserpiently, of evidence, prior to the XVIth dynasty, renders the acceptance and purportof the succession of the upper line dependent upon the monument it
Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum . successionof the upper line may be constructed on the same plan. Although too many of the names inthe Abydos tablet are reproduced in that of Karnak, there appears as yet a want of monumentalevidence to enable any satisfactory clue to be seized relative to the succession of that , therefore, the progress of hieroglyphical discoveiy, the paucity of monuments,and, conserpiently, of evidence, prior to the XVIth dynasty, renders the acceptance and purportof the succession of the upper line dependent upon the monument itself; the only other knowndocument, the Hieratical Canon of Turin, being, unfortunately, from an attempt to restorethe mutilation, so doubtful lliat it can hardly be received even as confirmation uf what isalready established. There is, however, one observation which may be here made, that no one has as yetattempted to decipher the names of the upper line, and in my observations I shall, hypo- Burton, Excerptn Hieroglypbica, pi. Ivi. Ivii. bo y_-M^; .
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