Vol. I - The Coptic Orthodox Church

The
Introduction.
Lists of
Hieroglyphic
signs by
Champollion,
Birch, E. de
Rouge and
Brugsch.
Ixx Introduction.
Sudani literature which will help the student of ancient Egyptian
in his work. From the books of Tutschek, 1
Krapf, 2
Mitterutzner, 3
and from the recently published works of Captain Owen 4
Westermann, 5
and
a student with the necessary leisure can collect a
large number of facts of importance for the comparative study
of Nilotic languages both ancient and modern.
THE INTRODUCTION, INDEXES, SEMITIC ALPHABETS, ETC.
In the introductory section of this book I have given a list
of the commonest Egyptian signs, with their values as phonetics
and determinatives, arranged practically according
to the Lists
of Egyptian Hieroglyphic Signs published by the eminent printing
firms of Theinhardt in Berlin, 6 Holzhausen in Vienna, 7
Harrison & Sons in London. 8
and
Certainly none of these lists is
absolutely correct since the classification of several of the signs
is the result of guesswork, for the simple reason that Egyptologists
do not know what objects certain signs are intended to
represent. The only native Egyptian List of Hieroglyphs known
was published by Griffith, Two Hieroglyphic Papyri from Tunis,
London, 1889, 4to, but this does not help us much in the identi-
fication of the hieroglyphs. The first printed List of Hieroglyphs
was published by Champollion in his Grammaire gyptienne,
Paris, 1836, and contains 260 hieroglyphs. In 1848 Birch pub-
lished a fuller List with detailed descriptions (see above p. xxxiii)
in the first volume of the German and English editions of Bunsen's
"
Aegyptens Stelle." This he revised and enlarged, and republished
in 1867, in the second edition of the first volume
of the English edition, pp. 505-559. It contained 890 hiero-
glyphs and 201 determinatives were grouped separately. In 1851
E. de "Rouge issued a List of hieroglyphs in his Catalogue des signes
hieroglyphiques de I'Imprimerie Nationals, Paris, 1851, and he
reprinted it with explanations and descriptions in the first part
1841.
1 Grammar of the Galla- Language. Munich, 1845 ; and his Lexicon. Munich,
2
Vocabulary of the Galla -Language. London, 1842.
3
Die Dinka-Sprache in Central Afrika (with Worterbuch). Brixen, 1866.
1 Bari Grammar and Vocabulary. London, 1908.
The Shilluk People : . their Language and Folklore. Berlin, 1912 ; Die
Sudansprachen. Hamburg, 1911 ; The Nuer Language. Berlin, 1912.
6
Lisle der Hieroglyphischen Typdn aus der Schriftgiesserei. Berlin, 1875.
This list was arranged by Lepsius.
7
Hieroglyphen. Vienna (no date). This List contains all the unusual types
which were specially cut to print Maspero's edition of the Pyramid Texts.
' List of Egyptian Hieroglyphics. London, 1892.