Lettre à M. Dacier, ... relative à l'alphabet des hiéroglyphes phonétiques

differ in form, specifically the quarter circle and the ringed vase. However, the homophony same sound of these two characters cannot be doubted. The initial sign of the demotic name for Cleopatra See my plate I, number 17. is simply the hieratic equivalent of the hieroglyph representing the ringed vase. We correctly assumed this vase was the sign for the sound K in the hieroglyphic cartouche ALKSANTRS original: "ΑΛΚΣΑΝΤΡΣ". These two homophonous characters must therefore be accepted. We will find other examples of such homophony elsewhere, all proceeding from the same cause.

As for the second hieroglyphic character representing the sound S in ALKSANTRS, it consists of two horizontal sceptres facing each other Ibidem, plate I, number 25.. This differs essentially from the curved line which also represents the sound S in PTOLMES original: "ΠΤΟΛΜΗΣ". Yet the homophony of these two signs is, we dare to say, indisputable. These two hieroglyphic signs are rendered in hieratic texts by a single and identical character. You can recognize this, Monsieur, in the General Table of hieratic signs that I presented last year to the Academy General Table of hieratic and hieroglyphic signs compared, 1st class, number 14: 6th class, numbers 8 and 9.. It is also easy to confirm this by comparing the hieratic manuscript engraved in the Description of Egypt Antiquities, volume II, plate 62, pages 1 and 2. with the large hieroglyphic manuscript published in the same work Ibidem, plate 74, from column 120 to column 104.. This