. Ancient faiths embodied in ancient names: or, An attempt to trace the religious belief, sacred rites, and holy emblems of certain nations, by an interpretation of the names given to children by priestly authority, or assumed by prophets, kings, and hierarchs . / :ra^ Inbrb, which I take to denote, at the high place, or sanctuary, (of) the great \(Y) > whilst below the inscription are the bull and cow, emblems of the sunand moon, Osiris and 277 Meni] But this inscription may be read in another way,if we give a literal rather than a figurative meaningto the lozenge. The letters of th
. Ancient faiths embodied in ancient names: or, An attempt to trace the religious belief, sacred rites, and holy emblems of certain nations, by an interpretation of the names given to children by priestly authority, or assumed by prophets, kings, and hierarchs . / :ra^ Inbrb, which I take to denote, at the high place, or sanctuary, (of) the great \(Y) > whilst below the inscription are the bull and cow, emblems of the sunand moon, Osiris and 277 Meni] But this inscription may be read in another way,if we give a literal rather than a figurative meaningto the lozenge. The letters of the inscription arePhoenician, yet there is not in that old language a single sign (Ch doing duty for a letter; but if we turn to the ancient Hebrew alphabet, as given byGesenius in his Monumenta Phoenicia, we find that o stands for )), and that another form of the same Eig. 22. letter is Q , which is sometimes used, though not atypical form of the same letter, in the Phoenician.(J is its most common form in the Carthaginianinscriptions. Assuming, then, that the lozengerepresents the P, the inscription reads Wi3^, Inbrba,which, taking the Hebrew for our guide, we read atthe high place (Nob) of the four, V^9 rabba, beingequivalent to Vlitf or V^V, arba or erba. Kabbah,we remember, was the name of a capital city of thechildren of Ammon. A reference to Fig. 3, PL in.,Vol. I., shows that the lozengeis the emblem of the female;the same is also typifi
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