to some other nation and worship), may perhaps, from its posture, be the Egyptian Crepitus: as, among others of a lesser size, Kis the Anubis; L, M, the Apis; N, the cat ; O, the Cynocephalus ; P, the hawk; Q, R, the frog; S, the beetle; T, the Phallus Oculatus + U, a Niloscope; X, a pyramid; and Y, a Plec trum. Of these Icuncula, the last is of alabaster; Q is of brown marble, spotted with yellow; A, B, C, D, E, F, G, I, K, L, M, N, P, R, are of copper, and the rest of baked earth. All of them, except A, G I, O, P, R, are either bored through, or else have little rings fixed to them, whereby we may conjecture that they were suspended upon the necks of their votaries. Yet the spindles or pivots, a, a, a, a, of the images, A, B, C, D, may give us room to suspect, that they in particular were either to be erected in some convenient place of their houses as objects of their worship, or else that they were to be fixed upon their symbolical rods and sceptres, and carried about in that manner in their solemn processions. As nothing has been said in this edition, of the CHRYSANTHINE MAP, inserted above, we shall subjoin the account of it in the author's words, as they stood in the first edition. THE Reverend and ingenious Mr Costard obliged me with a sight of the Chrysanthine map, as it has been called, of Egypt, which is projected in a large scale, with the names of places in Greek and Arabic. In this, the Tiah beni Israel, (Trav. supra, p. 95.) which is likewise the name in Albufeda, is Terick beni Israel, words of the same force; which Tiah, or Terick, lies all the way in this map, through two ranges of mountains, from Pμεωπς (corruptly given for Ραμεσση, οι Ραμέσσης, Exod. xii. 37. Numb. xxxiii. 3.) to the Red Sea. The author of the Description of the East, as far at least as I understand his librorum descriptiones, &c. gives little credit to this map. • Hæc charta ' (says he, Dissert. Geogr. p. 286.) descripta est signis tam Ara 'bicis Nec Serapidem magis quam Strepitus, per pudenda corporis expressos, contremiscunt (Egyptii) Minut. Felix. 28. Crepitus ventris inflati, quae Pelusiaca religio est. S. Hieron. in Isai. 1. xiii c xlvi. + Osirin per brachium extensum, beneficentiae et liberalitatis notam, multis locis ostendimus; atque adeo Phallus hic oculatus [cum brachio occuite ex eo emergente] nihil aliud innuit, quam providentiam beneficam divini Osiridis, in fœcunda generatione elucescentem; qua occulta et insensi bili operatione omnia fœcundat. eratque potissimum apud Ægyptios amule zum, &c. Kirch. OEdip. Ægypt. Synt. xiii. p. 415. 'bicis quam Græcis, in usum (ut titulus præ se fert) Chrysanthi Patriarchæ Hierosolymitani, anno Domini 1722. Delineator ' (quisquis fuerit ille) videtur se totum composuisse ad librorum 'descriptiones, non oculorum fidem in locis perlustrandis acutus; ⚫ inde adeo cautius illius vestigiis inhærendum censui.' Whereas, I must beg leave to differ from this gentleman, in taking it to be a valuable chart, and which deserves well to be published. Neither does it appear from the title, as is here pretended, that it was of no older date than 1722, because ПЕРIгРАØH AIгYпTOY, &c. ΠΡΟΣΦΕΡΟΜΕΝΗ ΤΩ, &c. ΧΡΥΣΑΝΘΩ, &c. as the title runs, may denote nothing more than that this particular copy (not the original) was (gorgoμm) offered, or, in our style, dedicated to, and not properly made for Chrysanthus, &c. in such a year. I have inserted an extract from this, No. 111. in a much smaller scale, as far as it relates to this controversy. TEXTS |