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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    Now if we look, as Champollion did, at the other ways in which the name of Kleopatra is written we shall find that instead of the letter we sometimes have the letter which we already know to be T, and as in the Greek form of the name this letter has an A before it, we may assume that j initial letter must, of course, he K. We may now write the names thus :— 5. 6. P T 0 L ^ (](] S K L [ 0 P A T A T 11. Q The sign [ (No. 3) in the name Kleopatra represents some vowel sound like E, and this sign doubled (No. 6) represents the vowels AI in the name Ptolemaios; but as [| ( represent EE, or I, that is to say I pronounced in the Continental fashion, the 0 of the Greek form has no equivalent in hieroglyphics. That leaves us only the signs £=, <rz> and o to find values for. Young had proved that the signs ^ always occurred at the ends of the names of goddesses, and that it was a feminine termination ; as the Greek kings and queens of Egypt were honoured as deities, this termination was added to the names of royal ladies also. This disposes of the sign 05, and the letters 4= (No. 5) and <=> (No. 8) can be nothing else but M and R. So we may now write :— P T 0 L M I S, i. e., Ptolemy, K L E 0 P A T R A, i. e,, Kleopatra.