155*. The two kinds of hate, worn by the differ ent deities, seem to be intended by the characters of the Rosetta stone, which express the UPPER and LOWER regions or countries. These two characters are also found together in the green sarcophagus as the names of two goddesses ; and they occur toge ther in one or two passages of some of the manu scripts, and in an inscription at Philae, so that, al though the representation is very indistinct in the particular case of the Rosetta stone, there is little doubt that the cap of Osiris meant, in this case, su perior, and that of Hyperion and other personages inferior.
156. A circle and a semicircle stand, in several 'passages of the inscription of Rosetta, for OTHERS, or reroauung.
157. Possibly, the bowl and the bird together mean say or call, and the figure of a man may serve to make the passive CALLED.
158. The second bowl, substituted for the bird, does not appear very essentially to alter the sense, which is still a thing said or proclaimed; s DECLARA TION, or a decree.
159. The characters denoting MANIFEST seem to have some analogy to called, though their derivation is obscure. The first character may either be in
tended for the country (n. 84), or for a kind of flag or banner.
160. The ring, which implies a NAME, and which, elsewhere, distinguishes proper names, seems to be an imitation of the label, called a "phylactery" in the Greek inscription of Rosetta, on which the name of a figure was usually distinguished.
161. A disc, with rays descending from it, is one of the few characters in which the form gives us some assistance towards determining the sense, which is found to be ENLIGHTENING; though the Egyptians do not seem to have been very correct in tthheir de lineation of the motion of light, which they make to diverge in curved lines, like those described by a common projectile. See n. 8, n. 63.
162. The square block, the semicircle, and the chain, are employed very clearly in the sense of Loyola or beloved ; the Coptic MAI. In the encho rial character the square and semicircle seem to be sometimes transposed, and sometimes changed into an oval.