CHAP. XIII. RENOWN OF HELIOrOLIS. 301 



wine at all ; and if they made use of it in their li- 

 bations to the Gods, it was not because they looked 

 upon it as in its own nature acceptable, but as the 

 blood of those enemies whoformerly fought against 

 them, which, being mixed with the earth, produced 

 the vine ; and hence they think that drinking wine 

 in quantities makes men mad, being filled with the 

 blood of their own ancestors. These things are re- 

 lated by Eudoxus, in the second book of his Tour, 

 as he had them from the priests themselves.'* The 

 assertion, however, respecting the prohibition of 

 wine, previous to the time of Psammetichus, is er- 

 roneous ; and I have already shown * , that the Kings . 

 and priests were permitted its use at the earliest pe- 

 riods, as the sculptures abundantly prove, as well as 

 the scriptural account of Pharaoh's butler, t 



It was of Heliopolis, or On, that Potipheraht 

 was a priest, whose daughter Asenath was given in 

 marriage to Joseph; and the name of that person, 

 VIQ 'DID* is evidently compounded of Phrc or 

 Phrah, " the Sun," and answers to the Egyptian 

 Pet-phrc, or Heliodotus, which, in hieroglyphics, 

 would be thus written : 



No. 450 Name of rotiphiTali, Pet-phro, or Pet-re. 



The priests of the Sun at Heliopolis, like those 

 of Thebes and Memphis, were celebrated for their 

 learning ; and it was to this city that Plato, Eu- 



* Vide Vol. I. p. 253., and Vol. II. p. 165. 



t Gen. xl. 11. J GcMi. xli. 45. 



