Note 103 — LETTER XXXI.

[In Bunsen’s list of Determinatives, No. 5. I quote his description “Disk diffusing rays of light; light, as sti, a sunbeam, (sun’s ray); ht, daylight; ubn, to illuminate; mau, to gleam; ui, brilliancy; hai, light; am, a beam.” Bunsen’s Egypt’s Place, vol. i. p. 537.—Since writing the foregoing note in the first edition, I have read the Rev. Charles Forster’s Monuments of Egypt, and I find that he attempts to identify this royal sign with a grain of millet, “with its stamina and antheræ developed,” assigning for its pronunciation the word “pschent.” I forbear criticism upon this “discovery,” only referring the reader to p. 54 of the second part of the Primæval Language.—K. R. H. M.]