Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum . \, 1 ^>\ i ^-3 p ffi] If a :xi. PHTAII (PIITHA SOCHARIS OSIRIS). Besides the form of Plitah described in pp. 13, 14, another is commonly found in the tombsat Memphis, and is evidently the representation of the deity especially honoured with the description of Herodotus,* he appears as a dwarf, or rather child, or foetus,and has been considered by M. Champollion- to be the god Phtali denuded of his hieroglyphics which accompany this type in the funeral rituals read Plitah SochariOsiris. The second appell
Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum . \, 1 ^>\ i ^-3 p ffi] If a :xi. PHTAII (PIITHA SOCHARIS OSIRIS). Besides the form of Plitah described in pp. 13, 14, another is commonly found in the tombsat Memphis, and is evidently the representation of the deity especially honoured with the description of Herodotus,* he appears as a dwarf, or rather child, or foetus,and has been considered by M. Champollion- to be the god Phtali denuded of his hieroglyphics which accompany this type in the funeral rituals read Plitah SochariOsiris. The second appellation has been supposed to confer the name of Sakkarah on theplain which was the great cemetery of the ancient Memphis. The relation of the deformed andbandy-legged Phtah with Vulcan, whose limbs were fractured in his fall from Heaven toLemnos, is supposed by M. Champollion to be the graft of an Egyptian myth. Tiie agency ofPhtah is not, however, through fire ; and this type appears ratlier a sepulchral one, replacingthat of Osiris pethempamentes, or he who resides in the Amenti, or hell.
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