It we regard the earliest known Christian inscription of a human figure 
bearing a lamb ou his shoulders, as found in the cemetery of Marcellinus at 
Rome, while underneath there is a representation of five Christians seated at 
a semicircular table, partaking of the Lord’s Supper, which may possibly be 
as old as the 2nd century, there is no mistake , as in the case of Anubis cited 
above, as to the teaching of such inscription. (See Wharton Marriott’s very 
valuable work, Vestiarium Christianum , plate xvi., for this inscription.) 
Again, I do not quite understand what is the lesson which Mr. Cooper 
means us to learn respecting “the explanation of the rude sgraffiti discovered 
on the walls of the Colisseum (P rather Hadrian’s Palace, I believe) at Rome 
a few years ago” about Alexaminos worshipping his god. The explanation is 
given of the satire in Tertullian’s Apology, c. xvi., as Mr. Cooper mentions in a 
note (last page but two of the paper), and still more fully in his work Ad Nationes, 
c. xiv., where he relates the vile calumny about Onocoetes, which ungodly Jews 
and raging heathen were in the habit of bringing against the early Christians 
in those days of persecuting edicts. And I think some analogy may be 
worked out between the ass-headed figures which they falsely accused the 
Christians of worshipping, and the hieroglyphic symbol of Set or Sateck, the 
deity of the Hycsos, who was subsequently, as I have before noticed, intro- 
duced into the Egyptian Pantheon, as notably seen in the name of Pharaoh 
Seti I., the father of Rameses the Great, but I cannot discover any application 
to the Horus myth. 
In speaking thus, I readily confess my own ignorance of the subject, and 
think we owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Cooper for the way in which he has 
brought it before the Victoria Institute. And if I gently express my dissent 
from his conclusion “that the ideas, and works of art, &c., cannot be well 
studied without a right comprehension of the nature and influence of the 
Horus myth,” I cordially endorse the continuation of the sentence, “ that 
it becomes every student, or at all events, every expositor of the Book 
of Books, to examine this myth, and work out its operations for himself.” 
MR. COOPER’S EURTHER REPLY. 
The following are passing notes on the preceding communications : — 
Canon Cook has stated that the text of the XVIIth chapter of the 
Egyptian Ritual, as published by Lepsius, shows that the original text was 
purely Monotheistic; I would remark that the Religion of Upper Egypt, 
and especially of Thebes, under the XVIIItk Dynasty was fundamentally 
Monotheistic. 
M. Lombard : Of the myths of Horus, Apollo, Krishna, Peridun, Teoltepec, 
I think all consider only the first two to be pre-Christian. 
Dr. Rule : in his second paragraph takes me to task for calling Christ a 
vicarious Deliverer; that the act of deliverauce was vicarious was all 
I meant to imply. Eurther on he considers the drift of my paper to tend to 
the conclusion that all the elements of revealed truth were at first imparted to 
