Robert E. Anderson Story of Extinct Civilizations of the East

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Ptolemaios, the Greek name of the King Ptolemy. Each symbol represents a letter, viz., the initial letter of the name of the object pictured. The objects in order are - a mat, a half-circle, a noose, a lion, a hole, two reeds, and a chair-back. The first object (mat, or door according to some) =p, that being the first letter of the Egyptian word the noose or 100p=o; the lion=z or r; the object under the lion represents a hole, the first letter of the name in Egyptian being m; the last object=s. The language of the hieroglyphs is generally Coptic rather than ancient Egyptian.