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Updated: May 20, 2025
"Then he took from his pocket a strong magnifying-glass, and put it gently into Rodomant's hand. Rodomant grasped it, and through it gazed long and eagerly. And from that hieroglyphic mist there started, sudden and distinct as morn without a cloud, a brilliant bird's-eye view of a superb and stupendous city, a dream of imaginative architecture, almost in itself a poem.
* The latest word on the subject of the origin of the alphabet takes back some of the primitive phonetic signs to prehistoric times. They had set aside certain of their hieroglyphic symbols and given them alphabetical significance.
For curved surfaces, as cylinders, any of these methods can be used; the plasticine is the more successful. In all casting of plaster on a small scale, use a soft camel-hair brush. This avoids air bubbles without using too weak a plaster. Copying hieroglyphic inscriptions. Where possible a wet or a dry squeeze should be taken of any inscription.
On it were some hieroglyphic figures, cut with the most exquisite precision, as I could see when it came to my turn to use the magnifying-glass, which Mr. Trelawny took from his pocket and handed to us. When we all had seen it fully, Mr. Trelawny turned it over so that it rested on its back in a cavity made to hold it in the upper half of the box.
The bit of stuff dangling from Cassavetti's pass-key; the hieroglyphic on the portrait, the flower Anne had given to Cassavetti, and to which he seemed to attach so much significance. All red geraniums. What did they mean?
The young man gazed at him, astonished. "The ancient Egyptian word for the personal pronoun 'I' was anuk," said the Tracer placidly. "The phonetic for a was the hieroglyph a reed; for n the water symbol for u the symbols for k Therefore this hieroglyphic inscription begins with the personal pronoun or I. That is very easy, of course.
Their rough resemblance to human figures drew him towards one of them: it was an Egyptian sarcophagus covered with hieroglyphic inscriptions, and probably holding an immemorial mass of spiced flesh and rags. These silent relics of a prehistoric past seemed to be the only company present. In view of his uncle's well-known tastes, the nephew was not unprepared to meet these gentry.
And when we begin, at the conclusion of the analytical section of my work, to apply to the solution of our parable and of several folk tales the insight we have gained, we shall be confronted with a problem in which we shall face two apparently contradictory interpretations, according to whether we follow the lead of psychoanalysis or of the hermetic, hieroglyphic solution.
Not that he himself dealt in the higher or the lower mathematics, but he saw the hidden spiritual meaning of things as Professor Cayley or Professor Sylvester see the meaning of their mysterious formulae. Without using the Rosetta-stone of Swedenborg, Emerson finds in every phenomenon of nature a hieroglyphic. Others measure and describe the monuments, he reads the sacred inscriptions.
To this must be added that the entire nobility of the realm, the satraps or governors of the provinces, and the chief priests from every town were also assembled at Babylon to celebrate the king's birthday. Herod. Birthdays were held in much honor by the ancients, and more especially those of their kings. Lepsius, hieroglyphic text 1. 3.
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