OF THE REIGN OF PHILIP ARID.EUS. 115 presided over the month of Choiak, the fourth montli, "svhicli may have preceded Tjbi. The expression his " mother " seems to allude to the name Mid or " Mother," which was given to the wife of Amen Ra, and the monarch, who had no doubt assumed the old Pharaonic and special Alexander title of Son of Amen, addresses her m this sense. All that remains of the figure of the goddess is a right hand stretched forth, holding papyrus, and not lotus sceptre, as many have erroneously supposed. Its name was Khu, and it seems to have implied guidance or protection, as the other sceptre indicated " an entire power." Before the goddess is an inscription representing her speech to the king, which is — ta-na-nak ancli gam neb sun neb, " I have given to thee all life and health," the exact transcript of heh(apr]ixai (Toi jSiov airpoaKopov of Hcrmapion's translation.^ Behind the monarch stands Pach.t lioness- headed, wearing the solar disk and long female tunic, also holding the papyrus sceptre and the emblem of " life." Above her head are her titles — Pach.t neb. ye. t lian. t. ta Pacht anch tet gam cha ra, " Mistress of the Heavens, Ruler of the Earth, whose life endureth like the Sun," Before her is also her speech to the king — ta-na nek chet neb nefer, " I have given you all good things." Her festival also took place in the montli of Choiak, and hence her appearance in this part of the calendar. It is not necessary to discuss here the nature of this goddess ; she was wife of Phtha or Vulcan, and presided over fire. The other scene represents the monarch offering^ to the gods of the month of Tybi. All the figure of the king is lost except his feet, and his hands, in which he holds some ears of corn. These, in the sanctuary at Karnak, are called ab, and have been supposed to be a nosegay. In the festival of this god, as represented at the Ivamesseum, Ivameses II., and in the palace of Medinat Haboo,^ liamcses III., are represented reaping with a golden sickle six ears of corn,
- Ammian. Marcellin., xvii., 100. the goddess would be Kennu, the goddess
^ The scope of these offei'iugs deserves of the harvest and vhitage, and whose a deeper investigation, whether they were head decorates tlie wine-press, and to merely a saci'itice of a small quantity of whom wine would be an ai)propriate gift, wine, oil, water, &c., as emblematic of the Cf. Wilkinson, Man. and Cust., ii., p. 1.">'2, deity, or of the pi-oducts of tiie season PI. X. Wine was oH'ei'ed, however, to the when offered ; or wliether they alluded to whole Pantheon. Ros., M. d. c. lx.i. permanent endowments of tin; shrines. For the form of this name, sec Ilos. Their spei-ial meaning is certain ; and if M. St. 1. c. this mouth should be Mecliir, not Clioiak, s n^jd, ^i_ ,[ ^. ix.wi.
