CHAP. XIII. ETHIOriANS. CIIEMI. 2C)3 



non was said * to be a general of Teutamis, tlie 

 twenty-first King o^ Assyria after Semiramis, and 

 to have been sent with a force of 10,000 Ethiopians, 

 and the same number of Susans, to assist Priam, 

 when Troy was besieged ; and the Cushites of 

 Africa are also called Ethiopians. 



Besides the hieroglyphic group composed of the 

 tree above alluded to, indicating Egypt, was one 

 consisting of an eye and the sign land which bore 

 the same signification t; and, since the pupil or 

 black of the eye was called Chemi, we may con- 

 clude this to be a phonetic mode of writing the 

 name of Egypt, which Plutarch X pretends was 

 called Chemmia from the blackness^ of its soil. 



To the God Khem, the Egyptians dedicated 

 their ex-votos in the quarries of the Kossayr road ; 

 nor were temples and votive inscriptions put up in 

 honour of Sarapis till the time of the Romans, and 

 in a few instances during the reigns of the Ptole- 

 maic Kings. In the Greek ex-votos he is styled 

 the " Pan of Thebes," but the hieroglyphic in- 

 scriptions have not the title Amunre, though it is 

 })robable that in this character he was the same as 

 Amunre-Generator. || I should not be surprised to 

 find that the name of Khem was that for which 

 Amunre was substituted ; in which case, these 

 would be two characters of Khem, instead of 



* Diodor. ii. 22. f Vide the name of the Goddess X ///<(. 



t Plat, de Is. s. .3.3. 



$ Chame is " black " in Coptic, Egypt is (lliemi ; and it is remarkable 

 that Khom or Chom Q^H '^ "•''^'' '" Hebrew for " black " or " brown," 

 as in Gen. xxx. 32, 33. 35. and 10. 



II Vide supra, p. 247. 



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