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of his Chrestomathie figyptienne, Paris, 1867. This contained
about 340 hieroglyphs. A much fuller and more accurate List
was published by Brugsch, Index des Hieroglyphes Phonetiques y
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compris des valeurs de I'Ecriture Secrete, Leipzig, 1872, and it
contained 600 signs and their phonetic values, accompanied by
references to pages of his Worterbuch, and 147 determinatives.
After the Lists given by Rossi in his Coptic Hieroglyphic Grammar
1 and by von Lemm 2 in his Egyptian Reading Book, no further
attempt was made to discuss
he selected
hieroglyphs Jr generally J until Griffith J
Lists of Rossi,
described 104 Egyptian characters in Beni Hasan III, London, von Lemm,
Griffith
1896. Two years later he published A Collection
and
of Hieroglyphs,
London, 1898, which contained descriptions and identifications of
192 hieroglyphs illustrated by really good coloured pictures of the
objects which they represented, copied chiefly from coffins and
tombs of the Xllth dynasty. The most recently published List
of Hieroglyphs is that given by Erman in the third edition of
his Aegyptische Grammatik, Berlin, 1911. It contains about 660
hieroglyphs, not reckoning variants, selected from Theinhardt's
List. In the List of Hieroglyphs given in the present work I have
followed their order in the List of Messrs. Harrison & Sons, but
have been obliged to alter the numbers of the characters. I
have given all the ordinary phonetic values which the signs have
when forming parts of words generally, but have made no attempt
to give the word-values when they are used as ideographs. The
values which many of the signs had when used in the so-called
"
enigmatic writing," and in the inscriptions of the Ptolemaic
Period are not given. Want of space made it impossible to
include in this Introduction a list of the hieratic forms of hiero- Lists of
glyphs ; for these the beginner is referred to Pleyte's Catalogue nieratic signs.
Raisonne de Types gyptiens Hifyatiques de la Fonderie de N.
Tetterode, Leyden, 1865 (which contains 388 signs),
of Simeone Levi 3 and G. Moller. 4
and the works
I have also given in the Introduction reproductions by photo-
graphy of the Egyptian Alphabet as formulated by Young,
1 Grammatica Copto-Geroglifica con uri appendice dei principali segni sillabici
e del loro significato. Rome-Turin-Florence, 1877. It contains 386 phonetic signs
and 124 determinatives.
1
Aegyptische Lesestucke.
3 Raccolta dei Segni leratici Egizi nelle diverse epoche con i corrispondenti
Geroglifici ed i loro differenti valori fonetici, Turin, 1880 (contains 675 signs).
4 Hieratische Paldographie. Die Aegyptische Buchschrift in ihrer Eni-
wickelung von der Fiinften Dynastie bis zur Romischen Kaiserzeit. Part I, Leipzig,
1909 (contains 719 signs) ; Part II, Leipzig, 1909 (contains 713 signs) ; Part III,
Leipzig, 1912 (contains 713 signs).
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