24 .. 27. Under the bier on which a mummy lies, and in many other situations near the person of the deceased, we findrep tations of four deities who seem to be concerned in the operation of embalming, • and who might even be supposed to preside over the different condiments employed, their heads frequent. ly serving as covers for four jars, of the kind some times called Qmopi : they may also very properly be considered as attendants of Isis, who seems to be a still more important personage on such occasions' The first of the four has generally a human head, and may be called Tetrarcha ; his name contains a sort of forceps, and a broken line: the second and third have respectively the heads of a dog or baboon and of a wolf: and they agree very satisfactorily with the well known character of Arsons, and with that of MACBDO his companion, mentioned by Diodorus as having wolf's head, whose name may possibly have some relation to Mawdnar, " a worker in silver," as that of Anubis has to NUS, " gold." The phic name of Anubis differs from that of Apis only in having the angles directed immediately upwards, a circumstance which is not so indifferent to the sig.
nification as it at first ; that of M8cedo has a vulture with a star, and sometimes an arm instead of the vulture. The finirth of these deities is sented- with the head of a hawk, and may therefore be calledifieracion : and he is denoted by a water jar, with three plants, somewhat resembling leeks or onions.
28..82. Among the many hundreds of deities who are represented in various inscriptions and sculp tures, some of the most remarkable are two person.. ages with the heads of wolves, the first characterized by a sort of raised frame or banner, and a pair of horns, which may be expressed by the pseudony mous or temporary term Cereroehus, and the second by a half bow, and a sword or knife, whence he may be called Bioxiphus ; a figure with a human head, generally wearing a feather on it, and denoted by a broad feather reversed, which is implied in the name Platypterus; another a cap with a whip in it, who may be called Mas and a fifth in the form of a female,distinguished by a bier, who, at Edfou, bears a tear on her head, and who may be called Soraea.