CHAP. XIII. A DWARF DEITY. KHONSO» 19 



wears over his head and back ; but as his figure 

 and hieroglyphics are not met with on the monu- 

 ments, I offer this merely as a conjecture, from his 

 having the principal attribute of the Greek Her- 

 cules. The only representations I have seen are 

 small terracotta figures of a dwarf*, with a rude 

 beard, not unlike some of the Typhonian monsters 

 already mentioned t, or the deformed Pthah-Sokari 

 of Memphis, t M. Champollion supposed him to 

 be Chaos, or informous matter. 



HoNSOO, Khonso, Chons. 



Khonso was the third member of the great 

 Theban triad, the two first, as already shown, 

 being Amun-re and Maut. He was also the 

 third member of the first triad of Ombos, com- 

 posed of Savak, Athor, and Khonso, where his 

 name is sometimes accompanied by the hawk of 

 Horus. He is represented under the form of a 

 mummy, holding in his hands the emblems of life, 

 stability, and purity, with the flagellum and crook 

 of Osiris ; at the side of his head falls the plaited 

 lock of Harpocrates, or of childhood, given to 

 the youthful third personage of the Egyptian 

 triads; and he has the crescent and globe worn 

 by Thoth in his character of the Moon. He is 

 also figured as a man with a hawk's head ; and he 

 sometimes holds in his hand the palm-branch of 

 Thoth, on which he is seen marking off the number 



* Vide Plate 2-i. a. fig. ] . One in the collection of Chevalier Kestner. 

 f Vide su2}rd,\o\. 1. (2d Series) p. 431.; and Plate 41. and-24.«. 

 fig. 4. 



X Vide Plate 24. a. fig. 2. 



c 2 



