Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum . s. Wilk. Man. and Cust. Ser. 11. vol. 133. Champ. Mus. Chas. X. Numismatic Chronicle, vol. ii. p. DAnnecy, Medailles desNomes, ko. Par. 1822, pp. 90, , Charl. Mus. dAnt. Eg. I have regarded the bolt as determina-tive of the phonetic group shntem, • toshut; bul it often occurs after thephonetic hieroglyphics, slim, shem, or khem, both of which approach theCoptic Shmin, or Ekmin, the descend-ant of the word Chemmo, the ancientname of Panopolis. In this case thename found with the Harsaphes ofChampollion is the
Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum . s. Wilk. Man. and Cust. Ser. 11. vol. 133. Champ. Mus. Chas. X. Numismatic Chronicle, vol. ii. p. DAnnecy, Medailles desNomes, ko. Par. 1822, pp. 90, , Charl. Mus. dAnt. Eg. I have regarded the bolt as determina-tive of the phonetic group shntem, • toshut; bul it often occurs after thephonetic hieroglyphics, slim, shem, or khem, both of which approach theCoptic Shmin, or Ekmin, the descend-ant of the word Chemmo, the ancientname of Panopolis. In this case thename found with the Harsaphes ofChampollion is the ideagniphic nameKhem, as proposed by Wilkinson,loc. cit. vol. i. p. Cf. Wilk. Man. and Cusl. Ser. II. p. 133 et seq. Numismatic Chronicle, vol. ii. p. 102. « Champ. Gr. Eg. p. 135. For their names, cf. Champ. Gr. Eg. p. 126. This is probubly the white bull of •llabes. Cf. Wilk. loc. cit. pi. Coffin of Pi^namoun, Case VV 2, Brit. Mus. entitled hid of the (IJr. R.), luc. cit. Iviii. 141, 13, 20, Ixxx. 29-32. PLATL T JtnouLUe cUi ^ [P 0 S . and other Animals. RAM. 53 invested with oracular jiowers, and witli a shrine appropriated to his use, On account of hiseternal duration he was called the living Apis; and he sometimes appears as a bull-headedman, called Osor-Apis, supposed to be the same as Sarapis.^ Osiris was called the Bull of theEment.* His honours were more important at a later period, and there is little trace of himprevious to the Ptolemies. He is represented wearing on his head a disk, plumes, and the urseus, with the crown of theupper hemisphere or heaven, with a collar on his neck, rich housing at his back, and whip athis side,^ sometimes conveying a mummy on his back over the hills. He is coloured blackor black and white. Fiff. 102 is Apis, having on his head the disk of the sun, a winged hawk upon the napeof his neck, network housing over his body, and vulture across his loins. On the plinth isinscribed, .... Hapi, giver
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