Search -
A Dissertation On The Calendar And Zodiac Of Ancient Egypt
A Dissertation On The Calendar And Zodiac Of Ancient Egypt Author:William Mure Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SECTION III. CONTINUATION OF THE SAME SUBJECT.—INQUIRY INTO THE PRISTINE FORM AND SIGNIFICATION OF THE SIGNS. The names of the egyptian months, which we no... more »w proceed to analyze, have been preserved in the works of greek authors of various ages; as well as in the idioms of the native Copts, and Egyptio-arabs, among whom they continued to be used in modern times. That they are the primitive egyptian appellations is, I believe, not disputed ; and indeed is placed beyond a doubt, as well by the internal evidence which they themselves afford of their connexion with the ancient language and religion of the country, as by the constancy and harmony of the tradition, by which they have been handed down through ages as such. I have given below, in the notes, references to the authors in whose works the most important varieties of these names have been preserved, as well in the greek as the coptic idiom.a To the coptic orthography thegreatest weight is in most instances to be attached, as representing the pronunciation of the old dialect of Egypt, for the most part it may reasonably be assumed, pure and unaltered. Occasional allusion has also been made to the analogy of the Copto-arabic. a According to the greek orthography: see generally, Ptolem. de Apparent. ap. Petav. Uranol. in op. de doct. temp. vol. iii. p. 42. Antholog. grsec. I. i. c. 91. Fabricii Menolog. p. 22. According to the coptic orthography; Kircher, Ling- segypt. restitut- Scalamagna, p. 63, et Prodrom. Copt- p. 140. Tuki, Rudim. ling. copt. p. 391. sqq. Croze, Lexic. segypt. in Tv- Jablonski, Collectio vocum aegyptiarum, in v. v. Opusc. vol. i. et ap. Steph. Thes. ling- grsec. edit. Valpy, vol. i. initio. Young, append. ad Tatham. Egypt. gramm. p. 5. Croz. Thesaurus epistolicus, pt. iii. p. 133. b II. s. 82. Thes...« less