CHAP. XIII. OMBTE, ABTAU T, OR OMBO. 415 



in his hieroglyphic legend, the title " Lord of the 

 region of the Upper Country," as is the case even 

 in the subject to which I have above alluded, 

 though accom})anied by the emblems of Lower 

 Egypt. This, then, may be intended to indicate 

 the combined protection of the Deities of both 

 regions. 



In the cartouches of Osirei and other Pharaohs, 

 his figure is introduced as a substitute for Osiris ; 

 probably in consequence of his name commencing 

 with the same letter, O or A, but not, as some 

 have been disposed to think, from his being one 

 of the characters of Osiris. I have supposed, from 

 the hieroglyphics, that he was called Ombte, Obte, 

 Ombo, or Abtaut ; but there is some uncertainty 

 respecting their alphabetic value ; and the first cha- 

 racter being the same as in the word Ombos, may 

 require his name to read Ombte, or Ombo. He ap- 

 pears, both from his name and character, to be the 

 Deity mentioned by Jablonski under the name of 

 Ambo, or Embon*, the same as Tithrambo (Taut- 

 Ambo?), but distinct from the Egyptian Hecate. 

 In the hieroglyphic legends on the monuments t, 

 he is shown to have been the son of Netpe ; on 

 the Wooden Cubits found at Memphis, the names 

 of Seb and Netpe are followed by Osiris, Isis, 

 Ombte, Nephthys, and Aroeris ; and I have met 

 with a group of figures t, repiesenting the family 



* J7A' Jablonski, Pantli. .Egypt, i. c.o. s. 2. He attaches to the name 

 the meaning of anger, wiiicli is tlie sense oi embon or viboit in Co|)tic. 



J An instance of this occurs on the ObeHsk of Luxor, at Thebes. 

 On a seal in the possession of Chevalier Kestner, the Hanoverian 

 minister at Komc. 



