> FWIW Budge's translations are pretty much discredited by everybody

I've read things to that effect in a number of places. But "everybody," including the world's foremost experts, frequently discredited people who claimed many things that we now take for granted, or attempted to throw out "babies" that are still very much alive and kicking in the babies’ bath water. So, I tend to take that kind of discrediting with a grain of salt, at least until I examine the evidence and arguments in the case for myself.


Having done that in the Budge case to some extent, I find it very problematic that Budge's Dictionary comprises two large volumes that contain a multitude of hieroglyphs that aren't in the much smaller dictionaries that Egyptologists have chosen to use instead.

Did Budge just make those glyphs up? I highly doubt it.
Are they unimportant? On the contrary, the fact that his dictionary contains the hieroglyphs for the things that people today call “cow patties,” which he naively interpreted as “bull cakes” — whereas other dictionaries don’t have those hieroglyphs, let alone translations of them — is just one of the many cases that I’ve found of this so far.

Bill