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THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. CHAP. XII. 



The funereal triad, composed of Osiris, Isis, and 

 Neplitliys, occurs in all the tombs throughout the 

 country ; and many others, variously combined, in 

 different towns and provinces of Egypt. 



I have also seen a triad represented on a stone *, 

 consisting of Re, Agathodaemon or a winged asp, 

 and a Goddess apparently with a frog's head ; in a 

 Greek inscription upon the reverse of which men- 

 tion is made of Bait, Athor, and Akori. 



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 AeAKWPJXA(P6\\ 

 rr ATG P KOCMOYX A \ 



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No. 445. Stone mentioning a triad, in these words : " One Bait, one Athor (one of the 

 Bia), and one Akori ; hail, father of the world ! hail, triformous God !" 



Bait seems to be the Baieth of Horapollo ; but it 

 is not easy to assign the Greek names to each figure 

 on the obverse ; and as it is of late time, the authority 

 both of these, and of the Greek names, is of very 

 little weight. The inscription, however, is curious, 

 from the analogy it bears to some of those ascribed 

 to the early Christian Gnostics, and serves to show 

 the idea entertained by the Pagan Egyptians of a 

 " triformous Deity," " the father of the world," 

 who assumed different names according to the triad 

 under which he was represented. 



* In the possession of Mr. Hertz, with whose permission I have in- 

 troJiicecl the accompanying copy of it. The above is the real size. 



