Zeus : a study in ancient religion . Fig. 562 pi. 97, 14). Amulets appear to confuse him with the Khnemu-snake {supra n. 4, W. Drexler in Roscher Lex. Myth. ii. 1258 ff., cp. for Egyptian snake-worship in general T. Hopfner Der Tierkultder altenAgypter 7iach dengriechisch-r67nischen Berichten undde7i wichtigere7i De7ik77idlern{De7ikschr. d. Akad. Wie7i1913 ii Abh.) Wien 1913 p. 136 ff.). Thus an agate in the Behr collection showedKhnemu as a lion-headed snake, with a radiate crown, accompanied by severalinscriptions—X NOV BIG in the field, TAVKCONA in front, IA CO beneath, anda mag
Zeus : a study in ancient religion . Fig. 562 pi. 97, 14). Amulets appear to confuse him with the Khnemu-snake {supra n. 4, W. Drexler in Roscher Lex. Myth. ii. 1258 ff., cp. for Egyptian snake-worship in general T. Hopfner Der Tierkultder altenAgypter 7iach dengriechisch-r67nischen Berichten undde7i wichtigere7i De7ik77idlern{De7ikschr. d. Akad. Wie7i1913 ii Abh.) Wien 1913 p. 136 ff.). Thus an agate in the Behr collection showedKhnemu as a lion-headed snake, with a radiate crown, accompanied by severalinscriptions—X NOV BIG in the field, TAVKCONA in front, IA CO beneath, anda magical for77iula on the other side of the stone (F. Lenormant Descriptioiides 7nedailles et a7itiquites co7nposa7ites le cabinet de M. le baron Behr Paris1857 p. 228 no. 76, id. in the Gaz. Arch. 1878 iv. 183, E. Babelon in the iv Serie 1900 iv. 28 fig. 6). Again, a red jasper in the Sorlin-Dorignycollection at Constantinople has Asklepios standing with a raven (?) behind hisshoulder and a human-headed or lion-headed snake before him
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