Vol. I - The Coptic Orthodox Church

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The last section of this Dictionary contains a series of The English
Indexes. The First Index contains a complete alphabetical list
of all the English words, with references, which are used to
translate the Egyptian words, and it forms a kind of English-
Egyptian Dictionary.
I have found the French Index in Pierret's
Vocabulaire Hic'roglyphique very useful in reading Egyptian texts,
and I hope that mine, which is much larger and fuller, and
contains over sixty thousand references, will be acceptable to
the beginner.
The Second Index ought
to assist in the identification of
royal names when they occur in mutilated texts. In it many
of the prenomens, which begin with Ra or some other god's
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name, are given under two forms ; thus I O esa J I, the prenomen Kings' names.
of Seti I, will be found both under Ra-men-Maat and Men-Maat-
Ra. The Hebrew and Greek forms of Egyptian royal names,
the identifications of which are tolerably certain, are also given.
The Third Index contains a list of geographical names, The
with references, under the ordinary forms in which they are Geographical
found in English books. These are followed by lists of the
forms in which they occur in Coptic Literature, in the works
of Greek writers, in the Hebrew Bible, in Semitic texts, and
in the cuneiform inscriptions, both Assyrian and Persian.
The Fourth Index contains a list of all the Coptic words, Coptic. Index,
with references, that occur in the Dictionary, and the Fifth
Index consists of lists of all the non-Egyptian words, Hebrew,
Syriac, Arabic, Ethiopic, Amharic and Greek, that are quoted Index of
Semitkwords.
or referred to in it.
The system on which the words are arranged in the
Dictionary is alphabetical, like that followed by
Birch in his
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Dictionary of ' '
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Hieroglyphics, and by Brugsch in his Worterbuch, The
and by the makers of Vocabularies to editions of special texts,
e.g., by
of^e words
Stern 1 and Erman 2 in Germany, Lieblein 3 in Norway,
Piehl 4
in Sweden, Schiaparelli 6
in Italy, Maspero 6 and Moret 7
1 "
See the Vollstandiges Hieroglyphisch-Lateinisches Glossar," by L. Stem
in Vol. II of Ebers, Papyros Ebers, das hermetische Buck conservirt in der Uni-
versitats-Bibliothek zu Leipzig. Leipzig, 1875. Fol.
- Die Marchen des Papyrus Westcar, 2 vols. Berlin, 1890.
3 Index alphabetique de tons les Mots contenus dans le Lime des Marts. Paris,
1875. 8vq.
4 Dictionnaire du Papyrus Harris, No. i. Upsala, 1882. 8vo.
5 II Libra dei Funerali. Turin, 1880-83. Fol.
6 Les Memoires de Sinouhit. Paris, 1908. 4to.
7
Le Rituel du Culte Divin Journalier. Paris, 1902.
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