ind the same · ` Vlas was denied by the people

Lavessia, tuam Cyamon aliquj vocant. n... 11. 2. 20. 2. 19. The term Cramon or Caanon, from vtence ne Greens cormed air vamos, is a comFound -Amon, heal ne Aqua: so Ca-deia was the house or shrine of Bela, Caraca, ze jouse of Gala.

had probably this name from a vegetable in Egypt, called 89 Ciborium, whose fruit was like a boat. Above all others the Nymphæa seems to have been regarded; which is represented as the flower of the Lotus. It was esteemed a sacred ornament by the priests and we find it continually used for a kind of coronet upon the figures of Orus, when he is described on the Lotus. It is also to be seen upon the heads of 9° Isis and Osiris: and the serpents "Cnuphis and Thermuthis are generally crowned with this flower. Orus is sometimes described erect, but swathed in bandages, like a person embalmed. In his hands he holds some implements of art: over his shoulder there seems to be the figure of a plough-share; and upon his head the Nymphæa.

If any means can be found out to obtain the latent purport of the Egyptian hieroglyphics, they must arise from considering these emblems singly, and observing their particular scope and destination. When we have ascertained the meaning of

89 Και ταχα αν ειη τα λεγόμενα σκυφια δια το κατωθεν εις γενον συνήχθαι, ὡς τα Αιγυπτια Κιβώρια. Athenæus. 1. 11. p. 477. See Dioscorides. 1. 2. p. 97. Strabo. 1. 17. p. 1178.

Κιβώριον, Αιγυπτιον ονομα επι ποτηρια. Hesych.

9° See Spanheim de Usu et Præstant. Num. Antiq. vol. 1. P-302, 303.

91 Ibid.