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To The Editor.
Antiquities . " At page 291 , in the 13 th line , instead of '' curious / afi / e , " read " curious table . " Whilst on this subject , I may also take occasion to remark , that in the third chapter " On the Study of Masonic Antiquities , " at page 15 , the hieroglyphics immediately above the symbolic prenomen of OSORTASEN the FIRST , and which are there , in their symbolic sense , rendered " PHARAOH" would be more correctland literallrendered " KING
, y y OF UPPER AND LOWER EGYPT . " It is true that these hieroglyphics o . ( which appear also on tlie Rosetta Stone , in the sixth line ) in & J & P \( their symbolical meaning represent a title equivalent to KING , A X Bao-tkevs , and are so interpreted in a variety of instances , and that they have thus been considered indicative of the word " PHARAOH " as a title of regal dignity , although they do not phonetically produce that name . The group , however , does not represent a single name , but
a junction of two titles ; and though the meaning is the same as the word Pharaoh , its complete translation will be better rendered as "KING OF UPPER AND LOWER EGYPT . " Thus , dividing the group *>; ( see Egyptian inscriptions , plate 24 ) , means KING OF UPPER EGYPT , and p & 4 ( see inscription on a Slab of Sevechus , B . C . 720 ) , means
KING OF LOWER EGYPT . It may be interesting to observe , that the twig , or reed , used alone , sometimes expresses the adjective ROYAL , and that its express meaning , in a symbolic sense , is limited or governed by some other hieroglyphic , either immediately preceding or following . Sharpe suggests that , besides the word COX ( whence it represented the letter S ) , it may
also have been called pOOY £ ; and hence represented the word OTpo * " aking . " Two reeds thus , XX ( see Rosetta Stone , line 5 ) , represent
the word SPLENDID , or REGAL . AS the word COA is a " reed , " the two reeds naturally indicate the word COACEA , '' splendid ; " and , as observed by Sharpe , this is a very instructive instance of the manner of phonetically expressing a word which could not easily be expressed pictorially . The celebrated title PHARAOH , which generally preceded the square name of a king , was represented phonetically by the following hieroglyphics J $ —the hawk being A , and the sun RE ; together meaning
OTBO KING ; and if to this we prefix the article p l , we thus have PI-A-RE , or JJ . f OYDO , " THE KING . " This group was sometimes represented with the ornamental addition of a crown to the hawk , and a pendant-asp to the sun , as in the following hieroglyphics n < - ^ which
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To The Editor.
Antiquities . " At page 291 , in the 13 th line , instead of '' curious / afi / e , " read " curious table . " Whilst on this subject , I may also take occasion to remark , that in the third chapter " On the Study of Masonic Antiquities , " at page 15 , the hieroglyphics immediately above the symbolic prenomen of OSORTASEN the FIRST , and which are there , in their symbolic sense , rendered " PHARAOH" would be more correctland literallrendered " KING
, y y OF UPPER AND LOWER EGYPT . " It is true that these hieroglyphics o . ( which appear also on tlie Rosetta Stone , in the sixth line ) in & J & P \( their symbolical meaning represent a title equivalent to KING , A X Bao-tkevs , and are so interpreted in a variety of instances , and that they have thus been considered indicative of the word " PHARAOH " as a title of regal dignity , although they do not phonetically produce that name . The group , however , does not represent a single name , but
a junction of two titles ; and though the meaning is the same as the word Pharaoh , its complete translation will be better rendered as "KING OF UPPER AND LOWER EGYPT . " Thus , dividing the group *>; ( see Egyptian inscriptions , plate 24 ) , means KING OF UPPER EGYPT , and p & 4 ( see inscription on a Slab of Sevechus , B . C . 720 ) , means
KING OF LOWER EGYPT . It may be interesting to observe , that the twig , or reed , used alone , sometimes expresses the adjective ROYAL , and that its express meaning , in a symbolic sense , is limited or governed by some other hieroglyphic , either immediately preceding or following . Sharpe suggests that , besides the word COX ( whence it represented the letter S ) , it may
also have been called pOOY £ ; and hence represented the word OTpo * " aking . " Two reeds thus , XX ( see Rosetta Stone , line 5 ) , represent
the word SPLENDID , or REGAL . AS the word COA is a " reed , " the two reeds naturally indicate the word COACEA , '' splendid ; " and , as observed by Sharpe , this is a very instructive instance of the manner of phonetically expressing a word which could not easily be expressed pictorially . The celebrated title PHARAOH , which generally preceded the square name of a king , was represented phonetically by the following hieroglyphics J $ —the hawk being A , and the sun RE ; together meaning
OTBO KING ; and if to this we prefix the article p l , we thus have PI-A-RE , or JJ . f OYDO , " THE KING . " This group was sometimes represented with the ornamental addition of a crown to the hawk , and a pendant-asp to the sun , as in the following hieroglyphics n < - ^ which