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REMARKS ON MR. COOPER’S PAPER. 
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THE REV. PROF. CHURCHILL BABINGTON. 
In a Letter to the Author. 
Sharpe, Egypt. Mythol., p. 10S. The reading must be, I think, -f- xtrpov 
mrocrroXov. The mark below the v in Ilfrpov is certainly not a q : it is hard to 
say what it is; perhaps a -f mutilated, or a f (r). 
Eig. 1. The first lamp, if from a Christian locality, is probably Christian, but 
about the second I have more doubt. A Christian locality would alone raise 
a probability that it is Christian. 
With the strange and not yet quite satisfactorily explained scrawl about 
Alexamenos should be compared a Christian medal ( circa temp. Honor'll) 
described by Cavedoris in the Rev. Num. for 1857, of which I send a tracing, 
which I will ask you kindly to return, where an ass and her colt are made in 
some strange w'ay to symbolize Jesus Christ. Alexander’s image (on the 
obverse) was a known magical charm. 
Eig. 4. The gem named is one, I suppose, in the British Museum. I 
omitted it from “ Gems ” in Smith and Cheetham’s Dictionary of Christian 
Antiquities, because I could not feel sure that it was Christian. The figure 
can hardly be Jesus Christ himself, holding His own self symbolized ; but I 
w'ould not be too sure. The nimbus does not prove that it is Christian 
(see Martigny). I once fancied that it might be a saint, holding fast by Christ, 
and “going on” the crocodile instead of the “lion and adder” ; but I do not 
now feel any confidence about that. 
Eig. 5, second gem, with this compare Matter, pi. 1, E. But I do not 
see any sure mark of Christianity in either gem. I am very doubtful about 
the Christianity of some of your other gems. 
THE REV. CANON E. C. COOK,* M.A. 
I have read the essay with much interest. Mr. Cooper has read care- 
fully and used skilfully the latest works of high authority in all questions 
of pure Egyptology. I ought not to criticise his work without careful 
inquiry, such as I cannot now bestow. I will, however, state very briefly 
my own opinion as to his general statements. In the first place, I hold 
it to be a fact, settled on the surest evidence, that the oldest Egyptian 
inscriptions bear strongest witness to a primeval belief in the unity of 
* Editor of The Speaker's Commentary. 
