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The figure of the Jackal is wholly insufficient as an argument that Ap-uat is identical with Anubis. Much better evidence is found in the fact that the name of Anubis is sometimes written over the figure.[141] But the true explanation of this is, what might have seemed incredible to some of our older scholars, that Anubis is itself only one of the names of Osiris.

The Pyramids of Pepi I (line 474 and following) and Pepi II (l. 1262 and following) give imaginary etymologies of certain names of Osiris which are repeated in the inscriptions of the tomb of Horhotep, published by M. Maspero (_Miss. Arch._, I, 260). One of these names is ⁂⁂, which is said to be derived from ⁂, “pass thou over to me.” The next is ⁂⁂⁂⁂ _Anpu_, which is derived from ⁂⁂! The true meaning of ⁂⁂⁂ is not _jackal_, but _whelp_; the fierce young of an animal; not only of jackals or lions but of men, kings or gods, ⁂⁂⁂. Thus Orestes speaks (Eur., _Orest._, 1) of σκύμνον ἀνοσίου πατρός, and the Chorus of another play talks of the reception of τὸν Ἀχίλλειον σκύμνον (_Andr._, 1170). And Shakespeare speaks of “the young whelp of Talbot’s raging brood.”

9. _Pedestal_, ⁂⁂⁂; the _stand_ upon which the images or emblems of the god were carried in procession. The ⁂ is very frequently supported by it; ⁂.

_Flight of stairs_, ⁂⁂. See Note 2 on Chapter 22 .

10. _Ensign_, _i.e._, _insignis_, one who bears the distinguishing mark or sign of investiture ⁂⁂⁂⁂.[142] See Note 4 on