Cherāba.” This reading is already found in a few of the Theban texts. The royal sarcophagus 32 of the British Museum gives the important variant ⁂⁂⁂ = ⁂⁂⁂⁂, whence it follows that ⁂ is phonetically = ⁂. The latter sign has only two known values ⁂⁂⁂ _āḥā_, and ⁂⁂⁂ _āba_. That the latter is the true equivalent of ⁂ is certain, in consequence of the complementary vowels ⁂, which commonly accompany that sign, whether in the word signifying _battle_, or in the name of a place. It is _impossible_ that ⁂⁂⁂ a should be the right reading, and no one has a right to convert ⁂ into a simple ⁂. The well known word ⁂⁂, “strike,” takes the prothetic ⁂, and is found under the form ⁂⁂⁂, in the name of one of the hours of the night.[146] No fresh information is derived from the discovery by M. Daressy of the same word under the form ⁂⁂⁂, that is ⁂⁂⁂, as it should be corrected if cited. To _strike_ and to _fight_ are different words, though they may often be used synonymously, and admit of being substituted one for the other.[147]