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that of kd¢x, the compound perfume which is so frequently mentioned. The 
word signifying “good,” which I have already mentioned, is transcribed at 
Thebes Ne@ep and vadpis: but to this also it may be objected that the @ was 
used for 7, in consequence of the influence of the p; and the same objection 
might be made against any inference being drawn from the Xeppyy of Hero- 
dotus, supposing it to be generally admitted (which, however, Chevalier Bunsen 
denies), that the @ in this name represents the cerastes. There are other tran- 
scriptions to which this objection would not apply, if they were admitted to be 
correct. Thus, Diodorus gives the name of this last king Xa@pvis, apparently 
representing the cerastes by 8, the remainder of the word being the representa- 
tion of the name of “the sun,” Reya. But Chevalier Bunsen denies that the 
king whose name contains the cerastes was the successor of Cheops. Again, I 
have myself no doubt that, in the name of the last of the Pharaohs, the cerastes 
was represented by a 8. I consider the name to be NeXTe-NeV, “lord of vic- 
tory,” of which the Greeks made NexraveB-0s, the cerastes being the comple- 
mentary letter of the basket, which signifies “lord,” or ‘all.’ ‘This last part of 
my supposition is, however, denied. Others make the cerastes to be the pronoun 
of the third person singular (in what sense used I cannot conceive), and read 
Nebf. They suppose, too, that this was not the name of the last Pharaoh, but of 
his next predecessor but one, which I, on the contrary, take to be Horus 
NeX T-eN-HeVI, the conqueror of Hevi, i. e. the Great Oasis, the NexraveBn-s 
of the Greeks,—a different name, though the distinction has not been of late 
attended to. It is this king whose sarcophagus is in the British Museum. It 
would seem, then, that the utmost that the Greek transcriptions can effect is to 
create a probability in favour of one or other of the conflicting values; and this 
probability may be differently estimated by different persons; we must, there- 
fore, have recourse to the analogies of other languages. ‘These, I think, are 
decisive as to the point. 
In Coptic, the cerastes, when initial, is represented by the letter q in qj, to 
carry, and qjitT, a worm ; it is so represented also in the affix of the third person 
singular masculine, as well as in 9,0, a serpent, and other words. Indeed the 
form of this letter is a strong argument that it is equivalent to the cerastes, it 
being evidently derived from that character. Now this Coptic letter is fre- 
