or 133 a Child

133. A CHILD, or in ant, is represented by a figure bent as if sitting, putting his finger on his lip. This is sufficiently established by the triple inscrip tion ; but it is still further confirmed by a plate of the Description de l'Eopte (Antiq. II. pl. 86, f. 1); in which a figure of this kind is represented as im mediately derived from the father, who seems to be inspired by a beetle entering his mouth. The manuscripts afford us here some valuable steps, by which the enchorial character is connected with the distinct hieroglyphics. Another figure, which is elsewhere used as corresponding to a beetle, is also found in the enchorial text in the sense of son or off spring.

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135. A circle, with an arm holding an an. ?ular line, means a DIRECTOR ; the angular line is intended for part of a rudder; and the same charac ter, with the addition of the figure of a boat, denotes the pilot or HELMSMAN, as is obvious from many parts of the green sarcophagus. The circle and arm are also found in the character denoting dedicate. (N. 150.) 136. A pair of arms holding an oar, and connect ed by a sort of sector, signifies a ROWER; and possi bly also a labourer, or workman in general, as in image. (N. 101.) 137. A stem of a plant, perhaps a reed, followed

by an insect like a wasp or ichneumon, but probably intended for a bee, and by two semicircles, is the emblem for a KING; but the reed is often alone in the same sense, and the insect some times occurs without the reed. Plutarch says, that a king was denoted by a leaf, THRION ; and Hors polo tells us, that a bee signified a people obedient to a king; hence this symbol might be interpreted , king of men. Ammianus Marcellmus, however, as eerts, more simply, that a king was denoted by a bee. It appears from the manuscripts, that the begin. reads the the enchorial character, which Mr Akerbiad env, is derived from e elementary traces re presenting the reed, the semicircle, a waved line, and a sitting deity, meaning the divine king, an assemblage which often occurs on the green sarcophagus, and elsewhere, as applied to a royal person. The re mainder of the enchorial character seems to repre sent a termination consisting of a semicircle and a vessel, which is often ded to a name, apparently as a demonstration of respect, like the vessel and the spiral in the case of the god Nilus. N. 19.)