Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . before thefinding of the Rosetta Stone, it was inferred that these were names ofkings. Dr. Th. Young, an Englishman, and M. F. Champollion, theFrench Egyptologist, then succeeded, independently of each other, theformer in 1819, the latter in 1822, in discovering the missing alphabet bymeans of a comparison of the names of the different kings. Champollionafterwards prosecuted his researches with such marvellous success, thathe justly merits the highest rank among the decipherers of hieroglyphi
Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . before thefinding of the Rosetta Stone, it was inferred that these were names ofkings. Dr. Th. Young, an Englishman, and M. F. Champollion, theFrench Egyptologist, then succeeded, independently of each other, theformer in 1819, the latter in 1822, in discovering the missing alphabet bymeans of a comparison of the names of the different kings. Champollionafterwards prosecuted his researches with such marvellous success, thathe justly merits the highest rank among the decipherers of the framed group which recurred most frequently on the RosettaStone to be Ptolemaios, as the Greek inscription indicated, he comparedit with other framed symbols on an obelisk found at Philfe contempora-neously with the Rosetta inscription. The symbols on the obelisk, whichoccurred in connection with the name of Ptolemy, he conjectured to sig-nify Cleopatra, as the number of letters also indicated. He then pro-ceeded to compare the two .roups: — (1) [ ~ *L j (J I he took to be Ptolemy,. Cleopatra. The first symbol in the second of these groups is a triangle, which hesupposed to represent ft, and which does not occur in the first group(Ptolemy). The second symbol in the second group, a lion, he took tobi / and lie was confirmed in this view by the fact that (lie same syni- Northern Delta. TANIS. 8. Route. 451 bol occupied the fourth place in the first group. The third symbol inthe second group, a reed, according to his hypothesis, would be e, andthis again was confirmed by the two reeds in Ptolemaios, representingthe Greek diphthong at. The fourth symbol in the second group, a cordwith a loop, was also, according to his expectation, found to occupy thethird place in the first. So, too, the square, representing p in the sec-ond group was found to correspond with the first letter of the firstgroup. The sixth letter of the second group, a bird, did not occur inthe first
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