This mode of hieroglyphical representation is not, however, the most difficult to be understood.
The Rosetta stone, which led to the hieroglyphical discoveries of Young and of Champollion.
Now, according to all that we know of the hieroglyphical mode of indicating objects, it rests on a very simple principle.
In this mode of hieroglyphical notation the image of an object is made to stand for any other whose name begins with the same letter, as the word does that designates the former.
As the principle of hieroglyphical writing is equally applicable to modern languages as to the Egyptian, a German word will serve us as well for an example, and for the purposes of our illustration, as any other.
The hieroglyphical mode of writing is, according to the explanation we have given of it, a symbolical representation by means of the initial letters of words.
The Sun is the hieroglyphical sign of Truth, because it is the source of Light; and the rough Stone is the symbol of Stability.
Flamel, or the Book of the Jew Abraham, made it the hieroglyphical sign of the accomplishment of the great Work.
The hieroglyphical senary (the double equilateral triangle) is the symbol of Deity.
Our Ancient Masons have concealed from us the most important point of this Divine Art, under hieroglyphical characters, which are but enigmas and parables, to all the Senseless, the Wicked, and the Ambitious.
It measures more than sixty feet round the shoulders, the breadth of the instep is nearly seven feet, and the hieroglyphical figures engraven on the arm are large enough for a man to walk in.
Haste in that direction seems to be the chief cause of this display of hieroglyphical knowledge.
The true origin of alphabetical writing has never been traced; but that of the Egyptians has been proved by the Comte de Caylus to be formed, as stated above, of hieroglyphical marks, adopted with no great variations.
Any one who will examine the hieroglyphical alphabet closely will discover a most extraordinary coincidence in that of the symbolical writing of our North American Indians, specimens of which are in the museum at Washington City.
It is not improbable that a kind of hieroglyphical writing existed in some of the Peruvian communities, especially among the Aymaraes.
Humboldt mentions books of hieroglyphicalwriting found among the Panoes, on the River Ucayali, which were “bundles of their paper resembling our volumes in quarto.
It is almost demonstrable that this very ancient monument was exclusively devoted to astronomical observations, for on the south side of the rock are sculptured several hieroglyphical figures having relation to astronomy.
Upon its pedestal, were pasted certainhieroglyphical notices; according to Mohi, offering rewards for missing men, so many hands high.
Osirtasen, and existing relics in glass, taken from the ruins of Thebes, with hieroglyphical data, clearly place its antiquity at a point fifteen centuries prior to the time of Christ.
According to a national chronicler, the statement of the case, the testimony, and proceedings of the trial were all set forth by a clerk, in hieroglyphical paintings, and handed to the court.
Specimens of this paper still exist, preserving their original freshness, and holding yet unimpaired the brilliancy of color in hieroglyphical painting.
The courier, bearing his despatches in the form of hieroglyphical painting, ran with them to the first station, where they were taken by another messenger, and so on, till they reached the capital.
Nay, what is your Montesquieu himself but a clever infant spelling Letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic Book, the lexicon of which lies in Eternity, in Heaven?
The 48th and 49th plates of the Hieroglyphics, already published, contain two tablets, apparently funerary, but without any dates of the reigns: the ages of the persons seem to be expressed in the hieroglyphical lines.
Experiments on Thought 308 Hieroglyphical Fragments, illustrative of Inscriptions preserved in the British Museum, with some remarks on Mr. Champollion’s opinions.
Hieroglyphical Fragments, with some Remarks on English Grammar.
We find no hieroglyphical inscriptions during this short reign of a few weeks, but there are many Alexandrian coins to prove the truth of the historian; and some of them, like those of Galba, bear the unlooked-for word freedom.
Descending the river to Thebes, and, while gazing on the huge remains of the temples, he asked the priests to read to him the hieroglyphical writing on the walls.
The scantyhieroglyphical records tell us little of thoughts, feelings, and opinions.
When the Roman, or modern, form of Christianity was instituted, the hieroglyphical inscription signifying the life to come or eternal life was substituted by a placard nailed to the cross with the letters I.
Such is the purport of hieroglyphical inscriptions upon papyrus rolls found in Egypt, and engraved upon obelisks erected in the Nile valley, one of which has been recently brought to the City of New York and set up in Central Park.
It merely serves with them to make the forehead more retreating, which, with the aquiline nose common to these natives, gives to them occasionally, a physiognomy similar to that represented in the hieroglyphical paintings of Central America.
A good Courtier's Habit and Behaviour is hieroglyphical on these Occasions: He deals much in Whispers, and you may see he dresses according to the best Intelligence.
Bacanus maintains Harpocrates and Cupido, son of Venus Uranis, to be one and the same hieroglyphical character.
This seems to have been an antient hieroglyphical representation upon the temple of Caphisus.
The libri [367]Acherontii in Italy, mentioned by Arnobius, were probably transcripts from some hieroglyphical writings, which had been preserved in the Acherontian towers of the Nile.
The gigantic stature of Typhon was borrowed from a like object: and his character was formed from the hieroglyphical representations in the temples styled Typhonian.
It has been said that of the component elements of his hieroglyphical name, Isis is the first, and that the name Osiris really signifies the "Eye of Isis.
The idea of the Indians being in possession of hieroglyphical writings, is calculated to lead us to form a very different opinion of them to that which is usually entertained by the world.
The hieroglyphical cakes of wax were deposited at the British Museum, probably at the time the precious manuscripts of Dee's conferences with "the Spirits" were so carefully lodged in the Cottonian Collections.
Ctesias reported the mythological creations which he had witnessed in hieroglyphical representations as actual living animals.
Mrs. Dickenson says Mr. Spaulding called his romance "a translation from somehieroglyphical writing.
They knew the use of hieroglyphical paintings; they could work metals, and cut the hardest stones; and they had a solar year more perfect than that of the Greeks and Romans.
The court records were portrayed inhieroglyphical paintings, from which the decision of the judges was made.
Every subject was expected to have knowledge of them, and the people were, accordingly, instructed in them by means of hieroglyphical paintings.
Egypt,--these two were apart from the hieroglyphical or symbolical language.
Our British Foreign Office passports with their hieroglyphical vises never emerged from the envelopes in which they were originally packed.
We crossed the Russian frontier in the middle of a lake-pitted moor, and thought with some grim amusement of the foreign office passports with their hieroglyphical vises, lying packed with the tobacco in the middle of the humpback's load.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hieroglyphical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
