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OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT G1ZEII.
Khem, X^, and Chemmo to mean the city of Pan, or
Panopolis ; but it is within the circle of probabilities, that
Chnem or Chem were one and the same deity, and Chem-
mis is known to have been a large city of the Thebaid, in
which district both types of Amoun were worshipped.
Should this conjecture be right, the names at once subside
into one; Saophis and Cheops are mere dialectical varia-
tions of the same differently aspirated, or Grecianized,
and Chemmis is the prenomen transcribed into Diodorus
(lib. i. c. 63), from the name of Chnouphis, or Chnoumis,
replacing the disc of the sun. This position is, however,
at present hypothetical, inasmuch as the mere presence of
these names in separate parts of such a vast edifice as the
Pyramid does not preclude the possibility that the car-
touches indicate the name of Suphis I. and II.9
" The meaning of the hieroglyphics following the pre-
nomen, and written in the same linear hand as the car-
touche, is not very obvious. A reference however to those
on other monuments gives a solution of most of the forms
represented.
" They consist of a gom or koucoupha sceptre, a
pschent, a curved line, a sword, a peculiar instrument, and
a level, and apparently compose the titles of the monarch,
similar to " Giver of Life, like the Sun for ever," of later
rulers; and the sentence may mean " Mighty in Upper
and Lower Egypt, giver of power." The third, fourth,
and fifth symbols, indicate some office, the particular
8 The chambers wherein they were found were altogether in one
part of the building, and connected in one original plan, as chambers
of construction.
OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT G1ZEII.
Khem, X^, and Chemmo to mean the city of Pan, or
Panopolis ; but it is within the circle of probabilities, that
Chnem or Chem were one and the same deity, and Chem-
mis is known to have been a large city of the Thebaid, in
which district both types of Amoun were worshipped.
Should this conjecture be right, the names at once subside
into one; Saophis and Cheops are mere dialectical varia-
tions of the same differently aspirated, or Grecianized,
and Chemmis is the prenomen transcribed into Diodorus
(lib. i. c. 63), from the name of Chnouphis, or Chnoumis,
replacing the disc of the sun. This position is, however,
at present hypothetical, inasmuch as the mere presence of
these names in separate parts of such a vast edifice as the
Pyramid does not preclude the possibility that the car-
touches indicate the name of Suphis I. and II.9
" The meaning of the hieroglyphics following the pre-
nomen, and written in the same linear hand as the car-
touche, is not very obvious. A reference however to those
on other monuments gives a solution of most of the forms
represented.
" They consist of a gom or koucoupha sceptre, a
pschent, a curved line, a sword, a peculiar instrument, and
a level, and apparently compose the titles of the monarch,
similar to " Giver of Life, like the Sun for ever," of later
rulers; and the sentence may mean " Mighty in Upper
and Lower Egypt, giver of power." The third, fourth,
and fifth symbols, indicate some office, the particular
8 The chambers wherein they were found were altogether in one
part of the building, and connected in one original plan, as chambers
of construction.