, in allusion to one of the chief characteristic features of the Ibis god (πρόσωπον ἐς τὰ μάλιστα ἐπίγρυπον; Herodotus, II, 76, in his description of the bird). Thoth, the god of Chemunnu, is meant by this appellative.
He is so called,
, on the statue of the King Horus in the Museum of Turin (l. 8), and
on the very much more ancient altar, of the VIth dynasty, belonging to the same museum. The same appellative[[121]] is found in the list of gods upon each of the Memphite cubits described by Lepsius.[[122]]