18. PAAMYLES, mentioned by several authors as the Priapus of Egypt, is sufficiently distinguishable by his usual attributes. He is often figured with one hand only, which is elevated towards the angle of a kind of whip or fan, suspended above him. At Edfou he is once denoted in an inscription by a fi gure like that of the tablets; and in another place by a distinct name, much resembling that of a female deity, found on some of the cases of the mummies, who might consequently be called Paansylia.
19. The Nile seems to have been reckoned among the deities of Egypt, and the character which ap pears to be appropriate to a river (N. 82) is found occasionally in the tablets, followed by a vessel and a spiral (N. 7 or 9, and 201), which seem indeed to make a part of the name, and accompanied by epithets of respect. This character has already been considered by Kircher and others as representing a Nilometer ; and the deity in question can only be distinguished by the name NILVS.
20. The sacred characters denoting APIs are pretty dearly determined by the triple inscriptions; the enchorial name is perfectly so. If, however, any doubt remained on the subject, it would be removed by an examination of the mscriptions on four vases ibund by Paul Lucas (Voyage dans la Turgide, 2 v. 12. Amt. 1720, Vol. I. p. 346) at Abousir, the Busiris of the ancients; that is, the BE OSHIRI, or sepulchre of Osiris, as Diodorus very properly trans lates it. There is a received tradition that Apia was worshipped and buried here, and Lucas established its truth by finding the mummy of a bullock in the catacombs. Now, all the inscriptions on the vases end with a bullock, preceded by this character, though the ales are turned in a different direction from those of the inscription of Rosetta; so that the two forms of the character seem to have been used indifferently. With this latitude, we have no difficulty in identifying the name as it occurs in al most every line of the inscriptions on the great sar cophagus of granite, formerly at Cairo, called the Lover's Fountain, and now in the British Museum ; which, there is some reason to suppose, from the fre quency of this name, may have been intended for re ceiving a mummy of the bull Apia ; although it must be confessed, that, in several other monuments, the names of the deities are introduced in a manner somewhat single?, with an evident relation to the de signation of some human being, whom they are in tended to commemorate.
21. The enchorial name of Minium is very com pletely ascertained by the inscription of Rosetta : and from a comparison of different passages in the manuscripts, there is reason to infer, that it was in• tended as an imperfect representation of a basilisc and a tear, emblems which are repeatedly found in the great ritual, connected with the figure of a bul lock.
21*. The sacred cow, in the manuscripts sent home by Mr Bankes, is denoted by a serpentine line with two dots, followed by the term Goddess. We may venture to distinguish her t, the temporary name Darnall:: that of Io would imply too grmt identity with the Greek mythology. (Plate LXXVIII. L.) 22, 28. In the tablets representing the judgment of the deceased, we generally find two standing by the balance, and apparently weighing is merits; one with the head of a hawk, the other with that of a wolf; seeming to officiate as the good and evil genius of the person. The former, denoted by a hawk with a bar, and sometimes also a spear, ap pears, from various monuments, to have some relation to the sun or to and may therefore be called .ff • : the other is often observed to be employ od the preparation of a mummy, and may be called from this occupation Cleristes, or the embalmer. He is also frequently represented on the coffins of mum mies, and elsewhere, under the form of a wolf, sit ting on a kind of altar: and he seems to he an im mediate minister of Osiris. His hieroglyphical name )18 a feather, a wavy line, and a block; or a hatchet under a sort of arch.