CHAP. XIII SELK. ASCLEPIUS. 53 



her head. Her office seems to have been prin- 

 cipally in the regions of Amenti, where she has 

 sometimes, in lieu of a human head, a symbol very 

 nearly resembling the hieroglyphic character sig- 

 nifying *'wife;" and the scorpion, her emblem, 

 even occurs with the legend " Isis Selk."* 



In the hieroglyphics of a Theban mummy case 

 (now at Bodrhyddan), I have found this Goddess 

 called the " daughter of the Sun." 



AsCLEPIUS, ^SCULAPIUS. 



The name and form of this Deity were first 

 ascertained by Mr. Salt, at Philae ; where a small 

 sanctuary, with a Greek inscription, is dedicated 

 to him. His dress is always very simple, though 

 not one of the great Gods of Egypt ; agreeing 

 with the description given of him by Synesius.t He 

 is bald, or wears a small cap fitting closely to his 

 head, without any feathers or other ornament; and 

 in his hands he holds the sceptre and crux ansata, 

 or sign of life, common to all the Deities. His 

 name reads Emoph, orEmepht; but he cannot 

 bear any relationship to the " leader of the hea- 

 venly deities" mentioned by lamblichus, who w^as 

 second only to Eicton^, the great ineffable God, 

 and *^ primum exemplar." 



* Vide Plate 43. a. 



■\- " Unus porro Deus ab iis minime occultatur, sed in propatulo ha- 

 betur, ^sculapius nempe, quern qiiidem pistillo c^lviorem viileas." 

 — Synes. iuKncoin. Cahitii. 



% Or Aimothph. § Vide supra, Vol. 1. (2cl Series) p. 216. 



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