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Lord with closed eyes, long hair, short beard, of the catacomb 
type, and a generally sad expression ; on His head is a leafy 
diadem, and from behind issue the forked thunderbolts of the 
Roman deity Jupiter Tonans ; above this again, and resting 
immediately on the diadem of leaves, are two cow-horns, and 
between them a very imperfect representation of the peculiar 
vasiform centre-piece, or cap of the Atef crown peculiar to 
Osiris, and which was bestowed upon IJorus Ra for his filial 
obedience (fig. 5).* 
Another and very remarkable gem is engraved in the De Wild 
collection. It represents the Gnostic deity IAIOj whom they 
regarded as the Jah Sabbaothof the Pentateuch, standing, Horus- 
like, upon a crocodile, holding in his left hand the sacred staff, 
and in his right hand the crux ansata. The deity is ithy- 
two birds, probably intended by the artist to represent human 
souls, two scorpions, symbolic of the powers of evil, and over his 
head the Eternal Spirit in the form of a winged scarabeus : by his 
feet are crouching two serpents, the Urseus and Cerastes 
respectively, and on the bevelled edge of the gem are filenames 
of the four chief archangels, Michael, Uriel, S Uriel, and Gabriel. 
Thus, then, there are in this little amulet, — for as such the gem 
was intended to be used, evidences of the fusion in the 
Alexandrian Church of the essential elements of these great 
religions, Egyptian, Jewish, and Christian; and among these the 
Egyptian idea is predominant. The representation of the great 
deity Jehovah, under the attributes of Ilorus the Avenger, and 
* Montfaucon, Antiquites, vol. ii. pi. 152. 
