Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum . M f. I .. ISIS • ^ HBOS OSIRIS. 29 Mr. Salt at Philse, and the Greok papyri also mention the god Imouth, alias iEsculapius.*His worship must have been prevalent at an early period, for Manetho mentions, in his dynasty,a king called Tosorthus, whom some, he adds, suppose the same as ^sculapius. He neverappears as a primary but as a subordinate god. His name, Ei-em-ophth, means to comewith offering: and his titles are sn/i, or eldest sun of Phtah. His worship was prevalentat Memphis, and many persons under the Ptolemies were named after
Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum . M f. I .. ISIS • ^ HBOS OSIRIS. 29 Mr. Salt at Philse, and the Greok papyri also mention the god Imouth, alias iEsculapius.*His worship must have been prevalent at an early period, for Manetho mentions, in his dynasty,a king called Tosorthus, whom some, he adds, suppose the same as ^sculapius. He neverappears as a primary but as a subordinate god. His name, Ei-em-ophth, means to comewith offering: and his titles are sn/i, or eldest sun of Phtah. His worship was prevalentat Memphis, and many persons under the Ptolemies were named after him. The presentbronze, from Thebes, has inscribed round the pedestal, Eiemophth the giver of life. Penbaihorn of Phtahertais the name of its proprietor. It seems to be of the Ptolemaic period, andwas part of a collection formed by Signor DAthanasi.^ HBOS (?) The lion-headed deity prevailed above the S. Ethiopia, at Wady Shendy, Wady Owateb,and at Wady Benata, but no inscription has as yet been published sufficient to decideon his name and functions. M. Champoll
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