Hieroglyphics of Horapollo: Book II.: XXX. What One Line ...
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Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840]
XXX. WHAT ONE LINE BENT OVER ANOTHER SIGNIFIES.
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A straight line with a curved line above it signifies TEN PLANE LINES. 4
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106:3
xxx. The plane lines denote units, the curved 10's, the coils 100's, and the other 1000's.
106:4 Qy. When a curved line is placed above a straight line it denotes ten of such straight lines.
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