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Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840], at sacred-texts.com

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

Footnotes

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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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