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a king is represented whose prenomen is Ra-men-hkheper—the 
name having been hammered out—commemorated Stephinates, 
and that it was defaced by order of Queen Amenirtas. He 
thinks, also, that the name Stephinates was a Greek corrup- 
tion of Tuf-Net, ‘‘ Neith is his breath :” which, he contends, 
was the proper pronunciation of the name of a person of whom 
there are naophorous statues at London and Paris; as there 
are of two of his sons at London and Rome, and ofa grandson 
at London. From the inscriptions on these five statues, he 
concludes that this person must have been born in the latter 
part of the reign of Psammitiechus I.: which would allow of 
his grandfather, from whom he inherited his name, being born 
under Stephinates. 
The Secretary also read a paper, by the same author, on 
Assyrian Mythology. 
This paper contains an enumeration of the Assyrian dei- 
ties in the order in which their names occur on the obelisk in 
the Museum. The above gods are first mentioned, and, in 
connexion with them, some of their principal attributes, and 
certain mystic numbers annexed to their names on a tablet in 
the British Museum. They are—Assur, king of the gods, 
who has no number; Anu, 60; Bil, 50; the sea-god, whose 
name is supposed to be Dagan, 40; Tsin, 30; Bin, 6; Shamas, 
the sun, 20; Marduk (lost) ; Bar, ‘the son of the god, 50,” 
the principal war-god (lost) ; another war-god, supposed to be 
Nirgal, 12; and Nabiu, 10. The goddesses are then consi- 
dered, about whom there is a difficulty. Three goddesses are 
mentioned in the Khorsabad inscriptions as holding the chief 
rank; though “ the great wives” of several gods are mentioned 
also, who must be different from them. The two first of these 
are alone mentioned on the obelisk; while the tablet contain- 
ing the numbers gives the third only, connecting her with the 
number 15. Her monogram is >>){7¥Q. On a cylinder 
of Esarhaddon in the Museum two goddesses are mentioned : 
