CHAP. XIII. GOD AND GODDESS OF WAR. 85 



Goddess of War, Bellona ? (PI. 70. Parti.) 

 The first figure in this Plate appears to be the 

 Goddess of War. She is seldom found, and I have 

 not met with her in any temple. 



(PL 70. Part 2.) 

 The Deity of Part 2. is from a stone tablet of 

 the time of the 2d Osirtasen, found at the temple 

 of Wady Gasoos, in the Desert, near Kossayr. He 

 may be a form of Amun. 



(PI. 70. Part 3.) 

 The third figure may be a mode of representing 

 the Dog-star, Sothis, and a character of Isis. 



(PI. 70. Part 4.) 

 The fourth has the name Mak, or Makte, which 

 might seem to indicate the Genius of War ; but 

 her peaceable occupation of presenting two vases 

 ill accords with that character ; and we have al- 

 ready seen that other Deities possess the undis- 

 puted post of Mars and Bellona. Her office is 

 therefore unknown. 



Leontocephalus. (PI. 71-) 

 The Lion-headed God is seldom met with in the 

 Egyptian sculptures ; and never, I believe, in tem- 

 ples of a very early epoch. If, therefore, he be 

 Gom, or Sem, the Egyptian Hercules, he is probably 

 a form introduced at a late period, or the God of 

 Physical Strength. 



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