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form and meaning. Considered as an opponent of tte gods 
of the country, his name was destroyed on almost all the 
monuments. An ass was to the Egyptians the type of their 
Northern enemies in Syria, so Sutech was represented wA. 
the head of an ass; the Egyptian name of which Tao being 
the same word as the Greeks employed to designate the God 
of the Hebrews.” Hence Diodorus relates that when Antiochus 
Epiphanes, b.c. 170, entered the Temple on Mount Zion, he 
found the figure of a man carved in stone sitting on an ass, 
whom he took for Moses who built Jerusalem. (Lib. xxxiv. 
Frag.) Regarding this extraordinary statement as only a 
gibe of the Hreek historian, it is remarkable to see ihow the 
early Christians were mocked m a similar way. Amid the 
ruins of Hadrian’s palace at Rome (a.d. 117-138), there has 
recently been discovered a representation of a human figure 
crucified with an ass’s head, with this inscription beneath 
A lexaminos adores his god And Tertullian writes at the close 
of the same century — “ A new report of our God hath been 
lntelv spread in this city (Rome) since a wretch issued a 
pictore with some such title as this— The God of the Christians 
CZed of an ass.” (. Apol. , ch xvi.) After a time « 
came to be regarded by the Egyptians under a different 
aspect M. Mariette has discovered a monument m Egypt, 
showing that Ramessu the Great made use m one instance at 
least of a chronological era, reckoned from Noubti, one of 
the earliest if not the first of the Shepherd Kings ; by which 
A had been admitted into the Egyptian Pantheon 
iust as Tiberius proposed that Christ should be admitted 
the Roman! Hencewe find the Temple of Abou-Simbel was 
dedicated by Ramessu the Great to the four 
of Egypt at that period of history, viz., Ammon, Phthah, Ra, 
Akhough the Himyaritic inscriptions and the Chinese 
archives bear testimony to the truth , of ' * ke -M 0 saie record r - 
specting “the seven years’ ” famine m the time of Joseph, no 
E P gyptifn monument has yet been discovered which refers to iri 
In the life of the late Baron Bunsen, mention is madeoft 
delight with which he received a communication m 18&3, Irom 
Dr Birch, with the decipherment of a hieroglyphic inscription, a 
portion of which read as foUows:— “When m the tme^f 
Sesertesen I. the great famine prevailed m ,aU ' 
of Eaiivt, there was corn in mine. Bunsen hastily pro 
nounced this to be “ a certain and incontrovertible proof of 
the seven years’ famine (Egypt’s Place, etc., m. 334). Dr 
Brugsch considers Bunsen’s conclusion “ impossibh forrea ons 
chronological.” (Histoire d’Egypte, p. 56.) With th s 
