AAA/V\A AAA/VV

He will land at

is old Dongolah, where the stèle

of Kinof Nastoseneu lias been found.

I [1 or even

! /\ is the verb of motion gene-

rally used by the Ethiopie scribe. It has been found only once under the form ^ 'fe^^ ^^^ ^^^ Egyptian monuments (Brugsch, Dictionnaire hiéroglyphique, p. 1162). It is the Coptic ce, transire, transgredi. We hâve hère the compound

F=^ , ire supra,

. ire infra, to

i (1 , written otherwise (1. 13) 1 [

to ascend; and further (Obv., 1. 4) descend. In compound verbs of that form, the subject is either inserted between the root and the préposition, or put immediately after the préposition, as in

ûfl

AAw^^

A/\AAAA

W /\AA/W\ Ll

honour unto Amen of N api ta, a ne

^ — ^ rv\n (1. 26)"/ went up to do

^m^ J) (1- 6) I went up to do honour unto Bast

1. Cf. ce qui est dit plus bas à ce sujet, § VI des Annales éthiopiennes.

ANNALES ETHIOPIENNES

E. — The form ^\ ^ is very curious, as being

brought to triliteration by intercalation of ^. The inserted dental is sometimes a | as in "^ ^ Sk > instead of

men for ^ , I >^

but commonly a <=^ : >v^ ^ -^ —,

(S „ , Ci -M^ III / III W

\^ (Brugsch, Dictionnaire hiéroglyphique, p. 1339)

4 (Id., p. 1344) for

for P^X^ i^d., p. 1217), P

{M., p. 1386) for

r-vr-i

', and many others

which I hâve quoted elsewhere.

1 V Pï"^<î^d6^ ^y ^li® possessive

F. — 1 \5 preceaed by Uie possessive ak ^ is

one of those nouns formed by the sufRxion of the pronouns

ï^.=^, —H—, 1 Vi> or masculine —h—, to a root. In old Egyp-

tian each part of the compound retains its own value, so that the root, although turned into a noun, keeps its verbal

power and remains able to take a régime :

>^ ^ {Papyrus Anas-

! ! T \/y/ I (rN, ''^

^as/ i/, pi. V, Une 1). he is loved by liim who curves his back ïbefore liini]. In aK rn vx \\ ^ ^

u yi^ rr\-y AAA^AA A H ^^ i r\j W ^ - — -

there is a noun /^^ra k\ j. the : Ae has curved.

A^/VW\ J^9—0 ^

and a reoime

/z?s back.

K is formed

with the root and the pronoun 1 , +\\ : [the] he

A§[ AAA^ is called /ig aa^aaa

Aas praised or ?'^ Aas 6ee/z praised : doing mij it is praised, doing my praise G. -'7^1^;. or

l— 1 • di

and /'^^ in the stèle of Horsiatef (Une 20, 160). It must have been situated between Dongolah and | nâ the nvoj<|^ of Ptolemy (Brugsch, Geographische Inschrijten , t, 1, p. 104), but I have not been able to identify its exact site

. It ought to have

been ^(( §A^^\ with a féminine article; but the Ethio-

pians had lost the notion of gender as well as that of num-

ber.Wehave, inline 36, another instance of a^[ (J ^<:3v\.