May6] PROCEEDINGS. [1890.SEBOR QEB; SECHETANDSECHEMET.
By P. le Page Renouf.Thesketch*in outline, whichDr. Brugsch is now publishing,of
the results of Egyptological research,is everywhere beingreadwith
the interest whichis necessarily attachedto all the utterances of one
whomorethananyotherlivingscholarhas furnished materialto
everybranchof Egyptology.
Thereadersof these Proceedings^will remember thattwo years
ago Dr. Brugsch honoured me with a letter on the subject of the
Egyptiangod"dontla lecture See ou Keb demandede nouvelles
preuves." Andhe quoted "aninstancewhichmilitatesin favour of
Keb."
I did not think it necessary to reply, andmy respectful silence
was occasioned by the fact thatBrugsch's"strikinginstance,"how
ever explained, in no way contradictedanything thatI had saidin
my paper on the god Seb. I had expresslystatedthat the god's
namein the latest periodwasoften writtena\,but I showed that
the A was derived froma cursive formof *g, and. \ which also
occursin the god's name,is equally derived fromanother cursive
formof the Bird. Thereis consequently nothingsurprisingin such
a passage at Edfu as
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It is Brugsch himselfwho has placed the "(sic)" under the
signa, which is probably an error. I will just alter it into X7, which
is a well knowndeterminativeof P Jlj^^^g} = p J'l^ jH se^a,a word which likethe Coptic CUU&Ihas the meanings " laugh at,
mock, treat contemptuously." In the classic days of Egyptian
orthographythis word wasneverwritten withan initial ^»,but at
the time of the Edfu texts^, is the commonest of variants for the
letterP s. Takingthe sign ...£>as the determinative of spitting,
- Die Aegyptologie,ein Grundriss der Aegyptischen Wisstnschaft,vonProf.
Dr. Heinrich Brugsch. Leipzig,1889.
t June 5, 1888.
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