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 OF THE EEIGN OF PHILIP ARID.EUS. 117 explanatory of some of the mystic representations — among which is the deceased bearing an image of the god Khem. The text which I translate here says — " I am Khem in his two appearances, whose plumes have been placed on his head." The explanation adds, " Khem is Horus, the defender of his father Osiris ; his appearances are his birth, the plumes on his head are the walking of Isis and Nephthys, his head was given to them that they should be the decorations (?) — when they were about to remain on his head ("?) " Another gloss states, " These plumes are the great urrei serpents, which are before his father Tum ;" and a third gloss adds, " his eyes are his plumes on his head." It is evident that if the explanation of these emblems w^as so difficult to the Egyptians themselves, it must be almost impossible now. The various titles, such as, the pow^erful god, the image of the Sun,^ and, above all, that of He who is male and female, Ka-mut-f, which I have already aUuded to, and which is probably the Xaiiijcpts of Hermes Trismegist,^ and his titles as issue or image of the Sun, and as the god whose plumes proclaim and horns or brows announce him,^ besides his appearance with the foreign deities Renpu or Kemphan, and Chen or Chiun, and Anta or Anaitis,* would render him one of the most important divinities of the Pantheon. His festival is always called that of the exposition or manifestation of the god when he was exposed to the eyes of mankind, and carried out his shrine. It is found mentioned as early as the fourth dynasty,^ and its celebration in the month of Tybi in the reign of Rameses III. and in that of Phihp proves that it always retained its place in the great or panegyrical year. I cannot offer a complete translation of the lines of hieroglyphics above and below. The upper hue reads, Ned shau Pilippas clia ra Meri-en-Ra, huT.t Jiekau, " Philippus the lord of diadems, like the Sun, [beloved of] Meri (en) Ra the oldest of minds (?) " It is the name and titles of Philip and of a goddess whose name means " the beloved of the Sun," i, c, his wife or mistress. The companion goddess of Ra is generally Ka-cs-naa, " she whose progress is great," probably a form of Athor ; and it is not improbable that as Pash.t or Pakht, the wife of 1 Birch, Gallery of Antiquities, p. .5. •> Tablet in the British Museum, Egyp- - Meiners, Versuch, Hvo, Getting. 1775. tian Saloon, No. 191 ; Prisso, 1. c. 3 Prisse, Mon., PI. XXXVII; Rosellini, ■' Lepsius, Ucnk. Abth. II. Bl. 18. M. d. c. Ivi.