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APPENDIX.
The present sarcophagus is made upon a similar type, rudely
representing a mummy of truncated proportions, squared at the
feet and rounded at the upper end, having the lid or cover also
rounded above, and with the mask or portrait of the deceased
carved at the lid about the head; below the head, which is en-
veloped in the peculiar long attire called the klaft, is an oskh, or
kind of semicircular collar or tippet, formed of parallel concentric
rows of lotus-flowers and other ornaments, not terminating, as
they usually do, in two hawks' heads. Beneath the oskh is the
goddess Netpe, profile to the right, kneeling upon both legs,
having on her head a disc, extending both arms, to which are
appended wings; in each hand she holds an ostrich feather. At
the sides of Netpe are Isis and Nephthys, kneeling to the right
and left upon symbols of noub or ' gold,' facing Netpe, and
holding both hands over signets, which, in other scenes, are
replaced by solar discs. Beneath these deities, and in two com-
partments to the left and right, are the two first genii of the
Amenti—Amset or Amseth, and Hape or Ape—a form of the
deity Apis ; their names are written immediately before them.
The four perpendicular lines of hieroglyphics immediately
before each of these deities, which are not continued down the
whole length of the upper part of the lid, contain " The address
of Amseth. I am thy son— Osirian, priest of the Divine abodes
(temples) of the district of the white wall; superintendent of abode
of the4 inundation (?) Saotou5 justified. I have come to manifest
myself beside thee." A perfectly similar address of the genius
Hape occurs in four corresponding lines. In two similar compart-
ments beneath are two other genii of the Amenti—Eaoumautf,5
jackal-headed, and Kebhsnauf, hawk-headed. Each of these
deities utters a similar address, with the addition of the genealogy
of the deceased, " Born of the lady of the house Taisaenonkh."
* Very uncertain ; represented by a lion—possibly Ka, the abode of Ha.
* Saotou (?) This name is peculiar to the Ptolemaic era. It occurs in the forms-
&c. The three bars in the present
j| ^ instance, indicate a plural desinence,
*-| J J I while its equivalent is a well-known
phonetic symbol for a vowel. Part of
his titles are, at present, undecipherable.
* The genius has been hitherto called Sioumautf — interpreted by Itosellini
"Star of his mother;" but variants of his name, as
clearly indicate that his appellation is Eaoumautf—
"He who adores his mother." Champollion,"Gr.G,"
p. 202, calls him Sovtefmau—evidently erroneously.
APPENDIX.
The present sarcophagus is made upon a similar type, rudely
representing a mummy of truncated proportions, squared at the
feet and rounded at the upper end, having the lid or cover also
rounded above, and with the mask or portrait of the deceased
carved at the lid about the head; below the head, which is en-
veloped in the peculiar long attire called the klaft, is an oskh, or
kind of semicircular collar or tippet, formed of parallel concentric
rows of lotus-flowers and other ornaments, not terminating, as
they usually do, in two hawks' heads. Beneath the oskh is the
goddess Netpe, profile to the right, kneeling upon both legs,
having on her head a disc, extending both arms, to which are
appended wings; in each hand she holds an ostrich feather. At
the sides of Netpe are Isis and Nephthys, kneeling to the right
and left upon symbols of noub or ' gold,' facing Netpe, and
holding both hands over signets, which, in other scenes, are
replaced by solar discs. Beneath these deities, and in two com-
partments to the left and right, are the two first genii of the
Amenti—Amset or Amseth, and Hape or Ape—a form of the
deity Apis ; their names are written immediately before them.
The four perpendicular lines of hieroglyphics immediately
before each of these deities, which are not continued down the
whole length of the upper part of the lid, contain " The address
of Amseth. I am thy son— Osirian, priest of the Divine abodes
(temples) of the district of the white wall; superintendent of abode
of the4 inundation (?) Saotou5 justified. I have come to manifest
myself beside thee." A perfectly similar address of the genius
Hape occurs in four corresponding lines. In two similar compart-
ments beneath are two other genii of the Amenti—Eaoumautf,5
jackal-headed, and Kebhsnauf, hawk-headed. Each of these
deities utters a similar address, with the addition of the genealogy
of the deceased, " Born of the lady of the house Taisaenonkh."
* Very uncertain ; represented by a lion—possibly Ka, the abode of Ha.
* Saotou (?) This name is peculiar to the Ptolemaic era. It occurs in the forms-
&c. The three bars in the present
j| ^ instance, indicate a plural desinence,
*-| J J I while its equivalent is a well-known
phonetic symbol for a vowel. Part of
his titles are, at present, undecipherable.
* The genius has been hitherto called Sioumautf — interpreted by Itosellini
"Star of his mother;" but variants of his name, as
clearly indicate that his appellation is Eaoumautf—
"He who adores his mother." Champollion,"Gr.G,"
p. 202, calls him Sovtefmau—evidently erroneously.