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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    seen the first in the name Ptolemy, and the second in the name Antoninus, where they have the values of T and TA respectively. Now it was found by comparing cei’tain words wi’itten in hieroglyphics with their equi- valents in Coptic that the third sign was the equi- valent of a letter in the Coptic alphabet which we may transliterate by TCH, i. e., the sound which c has before i in Italian. Further investigations carried on in the same way enabled Champollion and his followers to deduce the syllabic values of the other signs, and at length to compile a classified syllabary. We may now collect the letters which we have gathered together from the titles and names of the Greek and Roman rulers of Egypt in a tabular form thus :— [ A 0?’ E ^ A or w ra H I H KH or 1 S or (2 O)’ I 0 or U B P M ■V N R o T ] T ^ TCH V K J K ® K or