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 alien of Semitic origin, the son of the foreigner lupaaa 



(^^ ^/^^ -"^l^)- '^^® ^^™® ^^^^^ ^^ afterwards 



called " beloved of Rameses Meri Amen '' (Rameses 11.), and 

 here his native name comes out : "Ben Matsana of the land of 

 Tsar Basuna.-" On the whole series of names here recorded 

 Mariette remarks : ''See, then, in a group of seven inhabitants 

 of Abydos, three Egyptians, three Semites, then a seventh 

 person of Syrian origin with two surnames, one Egyptian, the 

 other Semite/^ 



I would apply this to illustrate the adoption and advance- 

 ment of Moses at the same period, and the Egyptian names 

 Peteseph ascribed to Joseph by ChEeremou, and Osarsiph 

 assigned by Manetho to Moses (Josephus, Con. Ap., i. 32 ; 

 i. 26, 29). 



These I have elsewhere shown to be genuine Egyptian names 

 {Life ofJosepli, Tr. Vict. Inst., May 8, 1880, p. 8). _ 



Thus the likelihood of these statements emerges into light 

 as we advance in real knowledge of the countries and periods 

 in question. 



The name Osarsiph (OcrapaKj), 'Oaapav^) ''from Osiris the 

 God of Heliopolis," Manetho tells us, was the original name 

 of Moses, who was a priest, a Heliopolitan by birth, afterwards 

 called Moses when he had joined the Hebrews. 



Now Josephus, in quoting this, contends that it is not 

 probable that Moses was first called Osarsiph " while 

 his true name was Moses, and signifies a person preserved 

 out of the water, for the Egyptians call the water Mou,^^ 



f ^ ^^^^^^i^t^ See on "Moses" Ebers, d. Gosm, Sj'c, 



2nd ed., 539. I will not here discuss the name rwTd. But 

 the more I think on "Osarsiph" the more does the name 

 grow in interest. For it is a veritable name of the great god 



Osiris ( fi'^ n^ ^§^ ^s dead, and raised from the dead out 



of his sepulchral chest ; as it' is said in an Egyptian rehgious 

 papyrus : " Come ! be resuscitated, Osir-sapi ! " [Deveria, 

 MSS. du Louvre, 172). 



Now what more natural than that the Egyptian princess, 

 seeing the little ark (or chest) floating like that of Osiris on the 

 Nile, and opening it to find the babe living and weeping, should 

 say in her playful tenderness : " Retmm to life, little Osir- 

 sapi ! " Indeed, it was on this Tanitic branch of the Nile, 

 they said, that Osiris was committed to the water when slain 



