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The Asiatic Journal for December (New Series) 1831

1831

Ever since the revival of letters the hieroglyphies of Egypt have excited the curiosity of the learned natl.:Annulated their zeal to decypher their contents in order by this means to reionquei as it were the knowledge of the arts and sciences possessed by the inhabitants of that renoWited country. [...] As examples of the popular and hieroglyphic forms of writing we refkr tö the middle and the upper inscriptions on the Rosetta stone preserved in the British Museum and of which verfaccrate copies are to be found in the plates of the great DescriptiOn of Egypt * published by order of Napoleon. [...] In the meanwhile we are bound to say that the question appears to us little short of being solved and that if we may trust the results of the labours of M. Dujardin * and a few other writers on the subject of the Rosetta inscription we must consider all the forms of Egyptian writing as ideographical. [...] Clement of Alexandria already cited; and we repeat that in a Quitter of this kind ' there is nothing which can weaken the unanimous testimony of the ancient writers concerning the ideographical nature of hieroglyphic% We will add though we do not stop to explain the grounds of our opinion that the popular and hieratic forms appear to us to be of the same nature as the hieroglyphical writing.* T [...] Thus with all the respect which is due to the talents the zeal and the assiduity of M. Champollion and of those scholars who have followed in the career opened by him we are convinced * Proofs of this fact we understand are about to be given to the world in a work by N. Dujardin of Pub."On the Study of Egyptian Hieroglyphics.
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Pages
319
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.120104
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Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
On the Study of Egyptian Hieroglyphics
273-283 unknown view
The Anglo-Indian of the Eighteenth Century
284-301 unknown view
Etymography
301-301 unknown view
Affinity of Ancient and Hindu Mythology
302-316 unknown view
Open Trade with China
317-320 unknown view
The Indian Army
320-321 unknown view
Tenures of Land in the Kandyan Kingdom
322-324 unknown view
The Spasmodic Cholera Morbus
325-336 unknown view
Trade of Baliling
336-336 unknown view
Orientalisms of the Greek Writers
337-352 unknown view
On Certain Peculiarities in the Mohammedanism of India
352-356 M. Garcin Tassy view
Miscellnies original and Select
356-358 unknown view
Critical Notices
358-359 unknown view
Literary Intelligence
360-360 unknown view
New Publications
360-360 unknown view
Asiatic Intelligence
1-183 unknown view
Supplement to Asiatic Intelligence
183-186 unknown view
Register
187-196 unknown view
Minutes of Evidence
197-200 unknown view
Home Intelligence
201-210 unknown view
Index to Vol. VI.
211-220 unknown view

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