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in on Place, illi the Head os amam L, and bove it a Ciescent. In Plate a aster . 66 on the fame able of us, re imo Figures of sit in Neli'd nee k'd Serpents With a human Face, and Wings consili in of three Row of lumes. All hicli et much corroborate the Passage of Macrobius atre ad quoted, henhe sayς, os hi nam ely the Serpents ad Solis naturam Lunaeque referuntur. of thes Serpent Nith rueli d Neck Lucris alio makes mention: Aspida somniferam tumida cer ice levavit. The nexi Particularcare the whitim quare ora ea ch Si de of theme ad of heae male divide into three Partitions and whicli a be coniectur' to e an se pilan Phylactery, appear in parti belo the Ephod ora reast late, like the ye is Arban Uoth, describ Dalready on Captain Lethi ultier' Mummy to, hic Λ the Readetis refert'd.

Tu nex Thin to e confidet Lin his fili symbolical Representation is the Figure anginiat a Cha in o the reast of LV ι hicli, tho it appe ars hiat inconsiderable isto Neve one of the great est Curio lities on his Mummy, and expla instite caninio many the sicli Figures inund si se Uttan Monuments of like Antiquity. ut that it ma be the et ter unde istood, tis necessar to mentio a Passage of Plutarch, hic istem to give no mali Light therein. Tnis great Author has she n fro vilia is at ready quoted That the se pilans belleu'd I scio hestheae male Par of Nature, and in Conjunction, illi theanflueuce of Osiris, the Cauld of the Productio of very thing. To his may be added, That he had a topical Notionis her Energ also, as heing, illi that of the Sun, more immedia rei confin' to thei ON Countr of Egypt and That the Boo

vi hich in ne Passagete plaint exprestes So that, o the retiring of the Walers, the so ru' thei Cor o the Field Whicli ad heen inundates Where by theν Diri committe the Grain for the niuini Harve into the Boimo Wom ofthat L s, vilio Was the common Receptacleis every thing. Hencerit,as that in the allegorical able of the Generations of thei Gods, mention d by the fame Author vias asserted That Isis rought forti a Male Child ea an tam init Limbs, hoste Nam mas Hortis o Harpocrates a the Gree HasterWard cali ahima by hicli Production, says Plutarch, the se,ptians meant the prout ingforti of the ora, hicii then is seebl and wea and ibid. p. 377. he adds, That the E Utians give ut that Osiris his bury Dat the Time the so the eed into the round an re turn to Life when the Graiia egins o hoo fortit: tit,

Fno thi Passae it a reason ab ly be conjectur'd that, among the various Symbolco I sin his Mummy the Figure hangin by a sortis Chai round et Nech, an on her Breast, is his φυ κτ ον, o Amulet, mention 'di Plutarchisuch a that God des hung round her Nech, he me inund hersei impregnatea vi illi Cor the Gree Mord νυ κetem impli es a Charm formeepingis Preta serving, and is ver apposite to the physica Character, I s, as a Nourisher audPreservet in Nature, and a me, as the common Receptacleis every vegetative Body So that heraeeping the Grai formaruest sale, uncorrupted an undestroyd with in die Bosom, vias, no Oubi, o great Importance to the Egyptians, amoni hom

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the imagin' me more immediatet dweli No Wonde then, Damonis many other Attributes of Us, avare display'Do ou Mummy me nould nsiliis Amul et mention d by Plutaria, anging roundie Neck. his Author in anothero laee' has omethin concerning this φιλακτή - Whicli pens a Fiel os ver curious Inquir sayche, The mulet hira fangs round the Nec in Isis, heu interpreteae signores a true mice. From hicli e ma suspect that this Amuletamon iis other Uirtues may have alio been made iis of by Way, oracle among the Egyptians, in like manne a the Urim and 7 mm m et among the e s B ut his Inquit mali e reserve uiati that thermum in be reate of WhichDr. Marios asininted presente to the College of Phusicians; here uomet hinstof this kind will e me niser remarhable. Tu r hicli present to Viem unde the Particula lassi describd is a curious Girdie, distinguisti' by no the ornament than hos o oblong square Divisions mithin ne nother, diversisy d by distin Colours of ello or Gold earlet Blue, an Purple. Al that mali he se id a prelentin his Head, is That both the Gir die an Ephod tready mention'd whicli is adorn d with ainting o different Row of precio us tones, bearis strong Resemblance illi the cutio us Girdie and Breast plate, mention' to have been o the sacred Garments of Aaron esit viii ut his is allo intende to e more ampi treate os in another Places so mali proceed. W Ar appear belo the curious it die ma again, o Order' ake, e calI'd the ixti emblematical Representation, consistin os a mali Globe illi in viliat stem to resemble a Boat supporte With ings, hicli en compasis the whole Length of the oat, and hicli a be concetu' to e another Symbol of the Sun, hicli the se trans Dign d to have gone round the Wor id in a Boat . ille Wings supportiniit eing like the ther Wings at ready describ d Emblems of the Sun's Velocity, and of the other Elements.

thos Eatabies exacti a re, cannot e learly distinguissi' on themum m TheTable on hicli the are et, is upporte mitti ne oot o Le in the mi deseovet the Tabie, ut et ach d n ne Side, is the Figure of me Plant in theouter Sides of hicli is represente a human Figure, erect with and stretetid forti tomat the u in the Boat, in a Pollure o Thank iv in or Adoration Finsae, illi tegar to the Vegetabies o Plant mention d nea the Table hieliare but imperfecti tot see o the Mummy the seem to e et ille theu eo ripe ars of Coin t symboliae Osris Invention o Agriculture, an hemistfruit thereos, offer' u to that Deity Or, the Lotus, hi chris topica to Gyuan produc in the Nile, hicli, accordinito antient Authors, alio

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the Mater that inundates the Countrν, ut os implf the secon Gu- Θ Ajguto the Ocean, rom henc ali mater in genera is produc d the hir the ascribeto the Ram, hich falsi in the mos sui heri 'arts of Ethiopia.

WHA novi rema in to e accounte sor, is the Figure of thes nocepbalus patia ted on acti Si de of the Bier: In thei Pa scis 'in of Staff the seem okneel, o si ii thei Legs efore the Corps as i attendiniit Thele re both curious and singular, an it a rea sonablyrae coniectur'd that he are thus repre sente o the Mummy, to denote the Nome o Province of Egypt to hicli the

STRABO, enumerat in the severa Species of fac red Animal cruorshipp' in the different Province of sent, Tays, At ais and Thebes in Egypt the Sh e are orses 'd, at Latopolis the Laium FVb the Lycopolitans adore the Mog, and the

Hermopolitans the Cynocephalus.

B this Passage i the onocephali expresis dis the iam my e to symbolige the we o Province, to vhichahe Person embalm die long d then Hermopolis mustbe the Place.

IN heri Mensa Nara there at two suci Figures of C nocephali siti ing, ut di Tertio thos o the Mummy, a vini rescent above their Heads, illi the Figureos a Neird neck' Serpent in both of them, hich plaint confirm thos to e Luna Symbols That the were such, Pignorius has these ords; Diademati lunae speciem annexam habet, tim qua, ut Pamblisus tradit, communes habet Θ- cas rationes , quae sunt, eadem exoriente laetari, deficiente maerere. TH eighth symbolica Representation stem tote long olet to Us, in heruingilia God des at a cover'd able, like that of Osiris alte ad describ d the Picture Whereos is albo truosold, ein represente on acti Si de of the Mummy Truo human Figures are here attendin Isis, it theirmand listedis ove the able, but not an Representation of the Suncis se en here at all. TuΑΥ his ovet'd Tablema allud a much to Us s Invention of the se of Grain, a the ther atroad describ' does to Osiris scinvention of Agriculture, is reasionabieci imagin for the finding ut the se of Grain is attribute sole lycio I herefore Diodorus Siculus, speaking o Osris, b his Benevolence to Nankind, ad With et them sto deuouring one anoth et At,hich Time, says

i Man ind. TAR inti emblematical Representatio consist o four quare Partitions, vioon acti Si de of the Mummyci in the uppermost of whicli, o the right, is exhibit eda human Figure embalm d, it the Head Dari an or Coos upo iis Nech, herea Mancis represente standingaeire it, in a Posture, ascit ere, of Adoration. In the opposite quare On the est Side, is such anoth et Figure a theolrst, ut mitti a Wolf s Head, and a Manianding efore it also Unde therar Square is a third Fietur exacti like the second with a Wolf' Hea also opposite o whicli is a utili embalm' Body, and it is altogether human Both thel last as,el a the thers have the Figures of en standi nihefore them, as i in an Attitude of

Adoratio .

Novi hat, e ma remath on the a resaid Representatio is, That the Figures therein mention' are very like thos whicli Porphyr describes among the antient

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Egi ptians, an for exhibitin them in that manner, he assigns a very humane Realon. What he says is to this Purpo se λ; The antient Egyptians, hernia rised that the Sisinit di not d et in an alone nor x iis es nee bolb in the human Sout o Larth, ut communi ted iis In Deuce to the rate Creatio apo the cherinore, in representin and consecrating the mage of the Deities, made

among them certain mages, quit humanis far a themec , ut it the aneos a Bird, o a Lion, or sme Animal other th a Man s mari ut theres of the Body, in the per orcio e Paris, lite that os a Beast. PORPHTRI subjoins, That uch Representations et chiest intende inorde to insipi re Humanit in to the Breast of Mankind that the might use the Brutes, illi Tender ne sis, a beta mutuat Inhabitants of the fame Globe, and Objects of the Divine Care, a mellis Men. Tn Symbo toruard the e et of the Mummy, is that o tW Wolve o Dogs, of a et blac Colour: ver the ac of ea chris the lagellum o Osiris. Such Animal a thesie eing ainte o Captain ethi ullier' Mummy, ovi ard the Fe et of the Cossin there, I have in m Discour se thereo en de avour' to saevi, that suci Uere physica Symbol of the San to Whicli for a voidin Repetition the Reade is referr d. WAA I have ventur' to offer in his and the foregoin Discoulse, a re humblysubmitte to the Learne a Conjec ures; hi chris the are though any a con sistent ruit the Egυtia Theology, and the Accounts of antient riters I hallthin the Pa in taxen there in melliestow d.