of two elaborate
complementary lists: the one describing sign-pictures and giving their
meanings, the other cataloguing ideas in order to show how they could
be expressed in hieroglyphic. Each seems to us to be made up of
curious but perverted reminiscences eked out by invention; but they
might some day prove to represent more truly the usages of mystics and
magicians in designing amulets, &c., at a time approaching the middle
ages.

[Illustration: PLATE I. EARLIEST EGYPTIAN ART

1. TATOOED FEMALE, LIMESTONE SLAG.
2. 3. HEADS ON IVORY TUSKS.
4. 5. ANIMALS ON BONE COMBS.
6. IVORY HAWK.
7. LIMESTONE LION.
8. IVORY DOG AND GAZELLE.
9. IVORY HANDLE OF KNIFE.
10. 11. WHITE ON RED VASES; MEN AND ANIMALS.
12. SHIP ON A VASE.
13. SHIP ON A WALL PAINTING.
14. IVORY KING.
15. 16. ARCHAIC KING'S HEAD, STUDY IN LIMESTONE.
17. HEAD OF KHASEKHEM.]

[Illustration: PLATE II. EARLY EGYPTIAN ART.

18. LIMESTONE RELIEF.
19. ANIMALS ON SLATE PALETTE._Photo, Mansell._
20. CONQUEROR AS A BULL.
21. GAZELLES AND PALM, SLATE.
22. ANIMALS, SLATE.
23. KING NARMER, SLATE PALETTE.
24. IVORY TUSK, WITH ANIMALS.
25. IVORY WAND, WITH ANIMALS.
26. WOODEN PANELS OF HESI.
27. RAHOTP AND NEFERT.
28. WOODEN FIGURE.]

+---------------------+----------+-----------+---------------+---------------------+
| | Demotic. | Hieratic. | Hieroglyphic. | | |
+---------------------+----------+-----------+---------------+---------------------+
| _ent_, "who" | [SGN] | [SGN] | [HRG] | _nty_ |
| | | | | |
| _Perso_ ("Pharaoh") | [SGN] | [SGN] | [HRG] | _Per<o <nh wz, snb_ |
| | | | | |
| _yot_, "father" | [SGN] | [SGN] | [HRG] | _itf_ |
| | | | | |
| _'onkh_, "live" | [SGN] | [SGN] | [HRG] | _<nh_ |
| | | | | |
| _ekh_, "know" | [SGN] | [SGN] | [HRG] | _rh_ |
| | |