124 Dr. Kennedy Bailie's Researches amongst the inscribed Monuments 



this again to the third of the Aratorial months, as represented in the sculptures 

 which I saw in the Memnonium, and of which Sir Gardiner Wilkinson has 

 given us an account in the first volume of the second series of his invaluable 

 work.* Its name, both in his book and elsewhere,f is written Phamenoth. The 

 query suggests itself, could this have been a contraction for Phtha-Amon-Thoth, 

 a triad of Egyptian deities, and expressive of the conjunction of the intellectual 

 with the generative and demiurgic powers ? Two of the months of the season 

 of the water-plants have been named after single divinities, Athyr and Thoth ; 

 why should not the same custom be observed in the case of a greater number, 

 particularly as we know that it was usual for the Egyptians to form such groups ? 

 Thus, we have the triads of Thebes, Syene, Philae, &c., the especial objects of 

 adoration in those districts. J 



However this may be, it is certain that in the Ephesian inscription, the ini- 

 tial syllable of the desiderated month, which Is expressly stated to correspond 

 to the Macedonian Artemisius, is HTA, and that the letters which are now 

 effaced therefrom occupied a space about equal to its last two, supposing them to 

 have been MOYNQG. 



Here, however, a slight difficulty arises from the representative of Artemis in 

 the Egyptian Pantheon having been Pasht, or as the Greeks expressed it, 

 Bubastis. This may be met in two ways ; firstly, by supposing that the framer 

 of the decree merely intended to express the coincidence between the Artemisius 

 of the Greeks and the Egyptian Phamenoth ; for his words are, Jnd the most 

 convincing proof of this religious veneration is, that the month denominated 



Pta (by all the Egyptians) has been called by the Macedonians and 



the rest, the Laconians, and the cities in their territory, Artemisius. In the 

 second place we may add the fact, that Pasht was a member of the great triad of 

 Memphis, and the usual companion of Phtha, or Hephsestus, by whom she is 

 stated in the hieroglyphic formulae to be " the beloved."§ This makes it highly 

 probable, that the great festival which Herodotus || mentions as having been 

 celebrated at Bubastis in honour of Pasht, took place in the month of which we 

 have been treating ; and if this supposition be correct, the author of the Psephism 



• Vid. pp. 377, s. f Rosin. Antiqq. Rom. p. 954. 



t Vid. Sir G. Wilkinson, vol. iv. p. 231. § Ibid. vol. iv. p. 280. 



II Ibid, ubi supr. p. 279. Herod, ii. 39, s. 



