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 a common title of the Roman Emperors was 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. > We written hieroglyphically know that (] [I = I, 1 = S, and <=> = R ; and as ■ is used as a variant for the first sign in the name of Kleopatra given above, must be K also. The last sign —is interchanged with 1, and we may thus write under the hieroglyphics the values as follows:— K I S R S that is to say Katcapo; or Caesar. From the different ways in whieh the name of Ptolemy is written we learn that ^ = U, and that has also the same value, and that has the same value as c—, i. e., M, is also apparent. Now we may consider a common Greek name which is Avritten in hieroglyphics ( J Ave may bi’eak it up thus :— J 4. /VWSAA 8. 9. o O Of these chai’actei’s Ave have already identified Nos. 2, 3, 5, 7, 8 and 9, and from the tAvo last Ave know that AAm are dealing with the name of a royal lady. But there is also another common Greek name Avhich may be written out in this form :— and 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Ave see at a glance that the only letter that Ave