The Century illustrated monthly magazine . ts known to naturalists. They maypossibly be the skulls of some kind of small lynx. suggests that they may represent the animalsacred to Mahes, son of Bast, a divinity also wor-shiped at Bubastis. Mahes is figured as a lion-headedman, and, whether in bronze or in glazed pottery, hisstatuette is of extreme XXXIX.—46. 1 The Greeks identified Thoth, the Egyptian god ofletters, ^\ith Hermes. The Temple of Hermes men-tioned by Herodotus was therefore a subsidiary tempie, or chapel, in honor of Thoth. Some remains ofthis structure were
The Century illustrated monthly magazine . ts known to naturalists. They maypossibly be the skulls of some kind of small lynx. suggests that they may represent the animalsacred to Mahes, son of Bast, a divinity also wor-shiped at Bubastis. Mahes is figured as a lion-headedman, and, whether in bronze or in glazed pottery, hisstatuette is of extreme XXXIX.—46. 1 The Greeks identified Thoth, the Egyptian god ofletters, ^\ith Hermes. The Temple of Hermes men-tioned by Herodotus was therefore a subsidiary tempie, or chapel, in honor of Thoth. Some remains ofthis structure were excavated during the present yearby M. Naville ; but the site is covered with arable land,and it was with difficulty that he succeeded in purchas-ing the right to dig over a limited area. 2 See Extrait dun memoire intitule, Questionsrelatives aux Nouvelles Fouilles a faire en Egypte,par M. Mariette ; read at the annual meeting of theAcademy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres, Paris,November 21, 1879. 33° BUBASTIS: AX HISTORICAL ^NXIENT FORT ON THE LINE OF THE CITV WALL! for about a quarter of a mile. Here the bones of mil-lions of these animals have been thrown out byantiquity hunters. There are evidences of fire inthe pits, and the bricksof which the pits were builtare burned red, the bones being massed together ina kind of conglomerate that looks like slag. We havecleared one pit, or rather chamber, some ten feetwide by thirty feet long. The interments here hadalready been disturbed ; but under the bricked floorwe found a second layer of bones, six or seveninches deep. Among them were two small bronzestatuettes of Nefer-Tum, quite spoiled by the actionof Further examination showed that here, as atthe cat cemetery of Tell el-Yahudiyeh, the sa-cred animals had been cremated; whereas inUpper Egypt and the Fayum they are foundmummified and bandaged. No results being obtainable from either thetombs or the cat-pits, M. Naville had now noresource but to attack eit
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