We have only been able to give occasional attention to subjects pertaining to natural science. Yet I have not neglected to collect specimens of stone and soil from all important localities, especially during trips into the remote mountain regions. A chemical investigation and comparison of the specimens of Nile mud collected from different spots and under different conditions will perhaps be of interest. We have visited the old alabaster quarry of El Bosra, opposite Sioot, which has recently been discovered by the Bedouins and is now worked by Selim Pasha. We found there an inscription on the rock dating from the beginning of the eighteenth dynasty. We have also visited the quarries of granite and of “breccia verde” at Hammamât, which have been in use since the most ancient times, as well as the porphyry and granite quarries on Gebel Duchàn (Mons Claudianus, Mons Porphyrites,) in the eastern mountains of Egypt, (see page 160) which were celebrated in Roman times. We have brought back specimens of rock from them all. The most valuable blocks of “breccia verde,” of every size, lie directly on one of the finest and most convenient desert highways, two days journey from the Nile, and would be excellently adapted to removal and exportation. On account of our antiquarian aims we were especially interested in the opportunity of becoming acquainted with the present world of animals and plants in the southern regions of Nubia, which conspicuously resembles the representations on the most ancient Egyptian monuments. It scarcely appears possible to account for this except by the assumption of a universal recession of the more highly developed forms of natural life in the Nile valley from the north towards the south.
INDEX
TO THE WORKS OF RICHARD LEPSIUS.
I. De tabulis Eugubinis. Diss. philologica. Berolini, 1833. 8.
II. L’ami au vainqueur, oenochoé (οἰνοχοή) à inscriptions. Annales de l’Institut de corr. arch. 1833. V. p. 357-363.
III. Palaeographie als Mittel für die Sprachforschung zunächst am Sanskrit nachgewiesen. [Palaeography as a Means of Philological Research, with Special Reference to Sanskrit.] Berl. 1834. 8.
IV. Über die πρῶτα στοιχεῖα in der Stelle bei Clemens Alexandrinus über die Schrift der Aegypter. [On the πρῶτα στοιχεῖα in the Passage from Clemens Alexandrinus on the Writing of the Egyptians.] Aus d. N.-Rhein. Museum für Philologie, 1835. Vol. IV. p. 142-148. 8.
V. Über die Anordnung und Verwandtschaft der semitischen, indischen, altägyptischen und äthiopischen Alphabete. [On the Arrangement and Relation of the Semitic, Hindoo, ancient Egyptian and Ethiopian Alphabets.] Berlin. Abhdlg. d. Akademie 1835.
VI. Über den Ursprung und die Verwandtschaft der Zahlwörter in der koptischen, semitischen und indogermanischen Sprache. Berlin. Abhdlg. d. Akademie 1836. Die Abhandlungen V und VI zusammen sind noch im selben Jahre (1836) im Dümmler’schen Verlag zu Berlin als Buch erschienen. 8. [On the Origin and Relationship of the Numerical Words in the Coptic, Semitic, and Indo-Germanic Languages. Berlin, Transactions of the Academy, 1836. The two papers, V and VI, were published together as a book, in the same year, by Dümmler.]
VI.a. Recension über Guarini’s valore della cifra SEXS in un marmo di Pompeji. [Review of Guarini’s valore della cifra SEXS in un marmo di Pompeji] · Bulletino dell’inst. di corresp. archeol. N. VII. 6. 1836. p. 126-128.
VII. Sarcofago etrusco. Bull. dell’inst. di corresp. archeol. Roma. Nr. IX e X, 1836. s. 147-49.