CHAP. XIII. SAVAK, SOVK.- 37 



which last appears to confirm what I before ob- 

 served respecting the title given to Thoth.* 



M. ChampoUion considers that he corresponded 

 to the Greek Chronos, or Saturn, in consequence 

 of the coins of Crocodilopolis, or Arsinoe, present- 

 ing his figure, and a medal of Antoninus struck at 

 Alexandria having the same Deity with a croco- 

 dile in his right hand. Clemens of Alexandria, in- 

 deed!, supposes the crocodile to be the emblem 

 of time ; and Horapollo says the two eyes indicate 

 the rising of the Sun, its body placed in a curved 

 posture the setting, and its tail the darkness of 

 night; but the fact of " the years of Seb" oc- 

 curring so frequently on the monuments seems 

 rather to identify the father of Osiris with the 

 Greek Chronos. t 



He sometimes, though rarely, appears with the 

 head of a ram and the asp of Kneph ; he then as- 

 sumes the attributes of that Deity. The crocodile, 

 his emblem, forms part of the name of Sabaco, one 

 of the Ethiopian Princes of the 25th Dynasty ; and 

 at Ombos he shares with Aroeris the honours of 

 the sanctuary, one of the adyta of that double 

 temple being dedicated to him. I have once found 

 an instance of the word Savak written Sahbak, or 

 Shabak ; and if we may follow the authority of 

 Strabo, Souchos, or rather Sovk, is another mode 

 of his name, which the geographer § tells us was 

 that of the sacred crocodile of Arsinoe. 



* Vide siiprd, p. 7. f Clem. Alex. Strom. 5. 



J Vide supra. Vol. I. (2d Series) p. 312. 442. 

 § Strabo, xvii. p. 558. 



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