404 TRANS. ST. LOUIS ACAD. SCIENCE. 



Let US now inquire whether this result is confirmed or reflated 

 by the places of the other planets. 



Behind the Moon in T we notice three deities retrograding- 

 towards the Sun, and such figures, as we have seen, constantly 

 declared retrograding planets, which was in —397, Dec. 25, the 

 case with Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, as the computation wili 

 substantiate. 



The figure behind the Moon, retrograding in « , is Mars ; for 

 this Muse plays on the double-flute, the instrument of Mars (Astr. 

 ^g. p. 180). The same instrument, therefore, was used at the 

 feasts of Minerva, the female Mars (Berich. d. a. Gesch, p. 205). 



After Mars another Muse, playing on the lyre, is represented 

 retrograding in II, obviously 2/, because he is the only planet not 

 yet mentioned on our bowl. Horapollo (ii. 116) testifies that the 

 lyre signified auvoy^ta y.al'lvcoTcx6u^ and the mythographers relate 

 that Mercury, the author of the lyre, delivered it to Apollo, com- 

 monly signifying the Sun. Since, however, the Sun and Jupiter 

 were considered identical, for which reason Osiris sometimes 

 signifies the Sun, sometimes Jupiter, it is probable that for this 

 reason the planet Jupiter was symbolized by the lyre. 



In addition, it will be necessar}- to obviate some difficulties. 

 First, since after Jupiter another planet appears retrograding in 

 25, it will be objected that the Cyprian bowl properly mentions 

 eight planets. But it is to be borne in mind that in case twO' 

 planets occupied the same sign, one of them was referred to 

 another, viz., that whose warden was the same planet which pre- 

 sided over the decuria occupied by the said planet. This was 

 the case with Saturn, who appeared with 9 and 5 in CS^, but 

 in the Horion of Mercury (i7°-2i° in ;«■), and therefore h. was 

 again mentioned in S, the house of Mercury. (See the writer's 

 Astron. y^g. Tab. I.) We do not know, besides, for what reason 

 the Cypriotes referred the tambourine to Saturn. 



Further, it is strange that the image of the Moon looks toward 

 the Sun like the retrograding planets Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn; 

 and, as we shall see directly, that the Moon is referred to T, while 

 she, according to our Lunar Tables, stood in X, near the Sun. 

 These seeming incongruities, however, are easily overcome. The 

 Moon's place in X, the house of b , is clearly indicated by the 

 cow-horns. The lotus, b's emblem, as we have seen, and the 



