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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt:...hieroglyphics, and also the insignia, which are A figure in a similar attitude occurs upon a stela of the seventeenth dynasty, in the British Museum; and upon it is inscribed--"He makes a royal offering," or "He performs an act of adoration." Champ. "Gram. Egypt." P-(c-And below is a star, which, besides other significations, as glory, adoration, &c. expresses the name of the god Siou, or Seb, Chronos. 3 A similar figure is inscribed in the quarries at Tourah. often inserted above the representations of deities. Below them is part of the starry heavens, and an inscription, containing " the royal chief," a title conferred upon the highest officers, and, in this instance, written in a more ample form than usual, and most probably accompanied by the figure of the person to whom it belonged. According to M. Rosellini, the phonetic group pile is analogous to pOItTU, and indicates that the individual was young, and probably, also, that he belonged to the military caste. The same title was, however, frequently attributed to queens and princesses, and, when applied to men, was often accompanied, as in the present instance, with feminine attributes. Its exact meaning, however, is not ascertained. Fig. 4 contains fragments of two compartments. In the upper, a man clothed with a shenti round his loins, inclines forward; and another holds in his right hand a club or scimitar, and in his left a bow. In the lower compartment, the sides of which have been ornamented with a border in a rectangular pattern, are traces of the starry heavens, and also of an inscription in hieroglyphics, of which, however, only one (the back of a chair) can be made out. Fig. 8. Part of a royal prenomen appears in a horizontal line of hieroglyphics, b...