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

new forms of K and S that will reappear in several other cartouches. Regarding these variations in general, Monsieur, please allow me to stop pointing them out as we encounter them. This is to avoid making the letter I address to you too long. I have carefully collected them in the complete alphabet, which forms the last of the plates accompanying my letter. But you can easily satisfy yourself, Monsieur, of the homophony of these varied signs. Each of them will be found in several other proper names where the reading will offer no uncertainty.

Bringing together all the phonetic signs that have been individually collected to form the general alphabet, I will now briefly place before your eyes the proper names traced in phonetic hieroglyphs. These are taken from the plates of the Description of Egypt and are found on the monuments of that country which are so well known to us through this

...syllabic alphabet established on these two names alone was completely inapplicable to the numerous phonetic proper names inscribed on the monuments of Egypt. Nonetheless, in England, Dr. Young performed work on the written monuments of ancient Egypt similar to that which has occupied me for so many years. His research on the intermediate text and the hieroglyphic text of the Rosetta Stone, as well as on the manuscripts I have identified as hieratic, presents a series of very important results. See Encyclopedia Britannica, supplement, volume IV, part I. Edinburgh, December 1819.