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Rh 802 HIEROGLYPHICS 1ABLE OF THE MOST UOMHON SYLLABIC DIONS. Continued. 1ABLE OF UENEEIC JUETERXUNATIVE KlGNS. SIGN. SOCND. SIGN. SOUND. SIGN. VARIANTS REPRESENTING DETERMINING IDEAS. 1 1 3

sen 1 F=^ ceiling sky, ceiling ; to raise, 8 4*- rien A superiority X tn*. 9* -ft- nUn na, am, ~x^ m 1 K^, X? 2 IT ceiling with star night, obscurity 10* nas tep 2 1^ XU 3 O sun sun, light ; divisions of VJ time 11 Jv neh 3 ^^ x?t 4 star star,constellations; gods; -XT. ^ divisions of time R VS. r?t 4 /T^j Xen 1 (J^ rut, rut 5 r^^o hilly country country, mountains ; na ~W~ tions 2 ru 5* rvwi X$nt f8nt i IAA i 6 C ) oval islands, oases, maritime countries s ? 6 ffi Xcr 1 LprJ sa 7

? cities, villages

1* X$r hep f&amp;gt; 8 I l I T T~ IJ i iTT ^ country divided nomes, districts, fields 2 xfc^fc sa -A3&quot; H 8 n same ? territories and their por 3 o sa l ha tions, dikes ; mud 4 O sa 2 _J) hd 9 AAAAV waves water, liquid, seas, rivers ; A (4 /VWWv to wash ; freshness ; 5 ^^ saa 3 hd level 6 su 4 hu 10 Q flaming censer fire, heat; zeal 5 &amp;gt; hu ^ 7* stb tau /) 11 ^r I man (squatting) proper names; pronouns 6 [ heJc 21 and participles 8 jjV x &quot;* sStep 1 ^ 12 i man acting more general, often used 9 v sem 7* ^N hek peli yl in Saitic period for the b r ^ more special determi n 8 J let, het, natives following the 10 1 sSn I hst: next S 9 =9= IMp 13 ^ Jj man and wo human race, its divisions, 11 =J ser 10*

hem peli man classes ; participles pi. s &amp;lt;, v 11 e&amp;gt; Mr 14 f) Varied by man with long gods, august persons, 1 X sit n^w V 1 many at beard kings 2 set 12 J he s ^ tributes A 15 .M personage en ancestors, princes, kings throned hold DETERMINATIVES. ing whip Champollion described as determinatives certain ideo graphic signs which were placed after words phonetically 16 m siniilar,kneeling similar ; defunct persons, manes expressed. The use of each of these signs is more or less extended. The greater part are used for one radical, or at least for one and the same idea. For 17 1 man squatting, his hand to his mouth actions of the mouth, eating, speech; thought such determinatives the proper place is the dictionary. But there is a class of determinatives placed after 18 ^ Jo man raising adoration, invocation, different words, often many in number, and therefore M -^ hands prayer called generic determinatives. The determinative is Varied ac attached to the radical, and has nothing to do with the 19 Jts cording to man bound enemies, prisoners ; per grammatical use of a word as noun or verb. (M. &amp;lt;de ^r race of verse Kouge gives a list of above a hundred as necessary prisoner for the student of Egyptian grammar, leaving out those of more restricted use.) Science has not yet wholly 20 ^ man stamping and striking mpiety, perversity ; enemies accomplished its task in this section. (Necessarily the liiniselt exact definition of the range of a determinative requires 21 OC=3^ man, slain enemiesjto strike; death, a careful induction from its use.) massacre (The table which follows is but slightly abridged from M. de Rouge s, after comparison with Dr.Brugsch s in his Grammair e Hieroylyphiqne, where a somewhat fuller but less logical list is given, apparently 22 1 man, his right hand raised exclamation, invocation founded on that of the French savant. The reason for here giving a larger proportion of determinative than of syllabic signs is that the senses of the determinatives when logically arranged, as by M. de 23 A (seated) man, arms raised height; grandeur; joy Rouge, present a key to the whole construction of the Egyptian system of ideographic signs, and afford UH a remarkable insight into 24 r% man, with staff chief,great,distinguished the genius of the language.) IJi