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they found it necessary to form another Deity from 

 the creative power, whom they called Pthah," 

 equal to Neph, being another character of the same 

 original God. " Some difference was observed be- 

 tween the power which created the world, and that 

 which caused and ruled over the generation of man, 

 and continued to promote the continuation of the 

 human species: this attribute of the Divinity was 

 deified under the appellation of Khem ; and many 

 more, as his goodness, perfection, and other quali- 

 ties, which struck them most worthy of their rever- 

 ence, were made to participate in similar honours. 

 *' Neph was represented with a ram's head*, 

 sometimes surmounted by an asp or a vase; which 

 last, as a hieroglyphic, was the initial of his name. 

 By the Romans he was known under the names 

 of Jupiter-Hammon-Cenubis, and Chnoubis, as 

 at Elephantine; of Amenebis, as in the Oasis; 

 and Jupiter Hammon with the head of a ram, 

 * unde recurvis . . . cum cornibus Ammon,' the 

 reason of which error it is not necessary here to 

 inquire," but which is not without a parallel, as I 

 have already shown, in the Roman mode of re- 

 presenting Anubis with the head of a dog. " It 

 seems, indeed, that the ram-headed God never had 

 the title of Amun, except when represented with 

 the attributes of Neph," a case of very rare occur- 

 rence; '*nor can I trace that distinction between 

 the figure before us and one of similar form, which 

 the learned Champollion has considered a different 

 Deity, presiding over the inundation ; since the 



* Materia Ilierog. Pantheon, p. 2. 



