344 ALEXANDRIA. 
CHAT, antiquities; particularly the head of a colossal 
image of the Rcnriy or of Ammok, whose name 
and worship, derived from Ethiopia ', became 
a source of the most absurd and fabulous 
history among the Greeks \ Also, two oblong 
slabs of stone, adorned with hierogbjphical 
sculpture, together with an Egyptian coffin of 
stone, adapted to the human form ; and the 
fragment of a Soros; both brought from Upper 
Egypt. Also other antiquities, the description 
of which might afford very pleasing employ- 
ment: but a volume, rather than a chapter, 
would be required for the undertaking ; and all 
these relics are now under the guardianship of 
(1) See f'ossius de Orig. el Prog. Idol. lib. ii. c. 11. Amst. lC42. 
Kircher CEdij). ^Egypt. Synt. 3. cap. 6. Rom. 1652. Pauw Philos. 
Disc, part. iii. sect. J. Lond. 1795, d:c. &c. The reader may also con- 
sult DiouoRUs, and the ^thiopica o/'Heliodorus. Kircher has cited 
a very remarkable communication, made to him by au Abt/s^iniaji, 
upon this curious subject, which he has thus translated mtu Latin: 
" Quo7uam a me petiistitihi dicer e aliquid deDiis ^thiopiim. Noveris 
gi'hd patres iiosiri cum Gentilibus et Paganis passim commiscerentur, 
inceperunt discere opera eoruin ; et Jecerunt sibi Deos privates, el ado- 
raverunt eos, sculpluram manu hominis perfectam Et ego adhuc 
multa inj^thiopia in Barnagasch Jntjusmodi vidi ; eratit autem magna 
ex parte referentia caput JLeenis et Arielis ; 7iomen eorum^ Amuna." 
(2) " Plan^ ridiculum est, velle Ammonis uomen petere k Graecis: 
CLUB jEgyptii ipsi ^A^toZv appellent, teste etiam Herodoto." Vussius 
dc Orig.Sfc. Idolat. lib. ii. <;. 11. torn. I. p. 362. Amst. 1642. The 
name of the Supreme Eeing amonj the Brahmins of India is the first 
sellable only of this word, pronounced AM. 
