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. 1903 Excerpt: ...in this case, I answer without hesitation that the confusion of f and Q is not only possible, but demonstrable. It is on the strength of the faulty variant If = 118 of the Belmore Papyrus that Birch and E. de Rouge gave to V the value hd, once universally accepted, and to which some Egyptologists still cling, but which has long since been shown to be erroneous, Yooo for ft no pis another instance of the confusion, which becomes perfectly intelligible if we take for instance the Berlin Papyrus I, and compare the x in ft p p p (line 24) with the f in the frequent form f. The two hieratic signs for Q and P, carefully written, are not to be mistaken, but when they are negligently written or have been damaged, they become undistinguishable, and are liable to be wrongly transcribed. I cannot give a better instance of this than by referring to a passage of the tale of Senehat (line 197), where 1) s I is transcribed a "--" by M. Maspero'. 1. Zcitschrift, 1883, p. 69, and 1885, p. 9. In these ancient papyri and other documents of the same character (in the sarcophagus, for instance, of Queen Mentuhotep) the cursive sign corresponding to 4 approaches very closely to the cursive sign corresponding to CW I do not think therefore that any reading, much less any phonetic variant, of can be considered as satisfactorily established by the side of aba. Besides the lish called aba, there is a bird of the same name, which M. Maspero conjectures to be a crow. It sometimes appears (as in Todt., Lxiii, 3) as the determinative of oj ot aba, which as the variants show is only one of the forms of the word meaning 'encounter'. Now it is worthy of note that two gods appear in the lists of Egyptian divinities under the following circumstances: --At Medinet Habu (in the...