CHONS  , " he who travels by

boat," perhaps originally a mere epithet of the moon-god Ioh or Thoth, is chiefly familiar as the third member of the Theban triad . As such he is represented as a youthful god, wearing a skull-cap surmounted by the moon . His cult was revived and became popular in Ptolemaic times . A curious story about the sending of his statue to Mesopotamia to heal a daughter of the king of Bakhtan is related upon a stele that purports to date from the Ramesside period: it has been proved to be a pious fraud invented by the priests not earlier than the Greek period .