CATACOMBS OF NECROPOLIS. 383 
Tacitus^, and also mentioned the authorities which chap. 
VII. 
refer its origin to the death of the Patriarch Jo^e/)/i'> v .,■ ,/ 
it will be proper briefly to notice the opinion of 
Jablonshi, as to this part of the £^7//;^fa7z mythology ; 
because a symbol which we discovered, forming Remark- 
a central and conspicuous ornament of the Cata- VoX. ^ "" 
combs, may seem to strengthen his opinion, and 
thereby shew that here was the Serapeum of 
Racotis. He endeavours to prove, from various 
authorities, but principally by a passage which 
he has cited from the Saturnalia oi Macrohius^, 
that Serapis was a type o^ ihe infeiiial sun, that 
is to say, of the sun during its course through 
the loiuer hemisphere, or winter signs of the 
Zodiac ; as Ammon was of the supernal, or path of 
bv Cuper in his Ilarpocrates, p. 83. Ulrecht, 1687. " Ante advectum 
ex Ponto Serapin, alius in ^Egypto eodem nomine deus colebatur. 
Pausanias, lib. i. scribit Athenicnses Serapidis cultum a Ptolemaeo 
accepisse, et templuin ejus s'T'Pavav£(fTaTa» esse Alexandrinis, aj;(;;a/«'rar«i> 
Ss h Mifi(p!i: unde abs([ue dubio sequitur, ante Ptolemsium Lagi F. si 
is, ut plerique tradunt, Sinopensem deuni advehi curavit, Sarafin in 
/Egypxo cultum fuisse." 
(6) 7'i/cit. Histor. lib. iv. cap. 84. 
(7) See Chap V. of this volume, as above cited. 
(8) " Hoc art^umeiitum ^i!:g-yptii lucidius absolvunt, ipsius soJis 
simulacra pinnata finijentes ; quibus color apud iUt^ noa unus est. 
Alterum enim caernlcA specie, alterum clarA fingunt ; ex his clarum 
superum,*et cjerulemu inferum vocant. Inferi autem ncmen Soli datur, 
cum in inferiore hemisphasrio, id est hyematibus signis, cursum suum 
peragit; superi, cum partem Zodiaci ambit sestivam." Macrob. Salur- 
va(. lib. I e. 19. 
