which occurs several times in the inscriptions. It was therefore guessed that the next signs
meant “ever.” The Coptic Vocabularies state that one of the old Egyptian words for “ever, age, eternity,” was Djet, and as we already know that the phonetic value of the second sign in the word is T, we may assume that the value of
is DJ, or TJ. The third sign
is a “determinative,” and was not pronounced. Thus the first title
means “living ever,” or “ever-living.” Of the remaining signs
