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An account of some recent discoveries in hieroglyphical literature, and Egyptian antiquities

Chapter 27: Transcriber’s Notes
By Thomas Young
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About This Book

The author presents a detailed examination of Egyptian hieroglyphics and related antiquities, proposing an original alphabet and comparing it with the extensions proposed by Champollion. He analyzes inscriptions including the Rosetta pillar and several papyri, and offers translations of five previously unpublished Greek and Egyptian manuscripts. The work surveys recent collections and collectors, illustrates manuscripts brought from Egypt, and extracts classical accounts concerning mummification. It concludes with an alphabetical synopsis attributed to Champollion, a chronological outline of the Ptolemies, and appendices containing the Greek texts and specimens of hieroglyphic signs.

Transcriber’s Notes

Obvious punctuation errors have been silently corrected. All other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged, except as noted below:

  • Page 4 & 15 - corrected “Déscription de l’Egypte” to “Description de l’Égypte”.
  • Page 29 - corrected “hyothetical” to “hypothetical”.
  • Page 67 - corrected “in in the sale” to “in the sale”
  • Page 92 - corrected “Lacedaemonins” to “Lacedaemonians”.
  • Page 113 - corrected “there” to “their”.
  • Page 143 - corrected “179” to “119”.
  • Page 147 - ΑΛΕΧΑΝΔΡΕΙΑΙ ΑΛΕΞΑΝ ΔΡΟΥ is believed to be a typo, and has been corrected to ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΕΙΑΙ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ

The omission noted on page 144 has been corrected by adding the indicated paragraph to page 115.