Easy lessons in Egyptian hieroglyphics with sign list / by E.A. Wallis Budge.

  • Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934.
Date:
1899
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Credit: Easy lessons in Egyptian hieroglyphics with sign list / by E.A. Wallis Budge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to occur. But on the Philae Obelisk the name Kleo- patra is mentioned, and in both of the names of Ptolemy and Kleopatra the same letters occur, that is to say L and P; if we can identify the letter P we shall not only have gained a letter, but be able to say at which end of the cartouches the names begin. Now writing down the names of Ptolemy and Kleopatra as they usually occur in hieroglyphics we have :— Ptolemy ( ° f) ^ () [| [1~] Kleopatra C3S □ j Let us however break the names up a little more and arrange the letters under numbers thus :— 1. 2. □ ^ Ptolemy. 3. 4. 5. ri 1. 2. 3. 4. Z1 -23^ (j ^ Kleopatra. 10. 11. We must remember too that the Greek form of the name Ptolemy is Ptolemaios. Now on looking at the two names thus written we see at a glance that letter No. 5 in one name and No. 1 in the other are identical, and judging by their position only in the names they must represent the letter P ; we see too that letter No. 2 2*