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returns after 30 years and Jupiter only after 12 years to the same 

 place of the Zodiac, both planets could not reappear in the same 

 signs but after 12 X 30 = 360 years, and consequently there was 

 only one year during the era of the XVIIIth dynasty within which 

 h and 2/ occupied their respective signs, namely, the year 1780 

 B.C., viz. on the day of the winter solstice. 



Let us now see whether the places of the moon, Venus, and 

 Mars, confirm the result or not. 



The moon (No. i) is followed by three sparrowhawk-headed 

 deities (No. 2), which signify three zodiacal segments presided 

 over either by Venus or Mercury, being represented very often 

 by the same sparrow-hawk. According to our Lunar Tables the 

 longitude of the moon on the winter solstitial day -1780 was 

 I' 17° ; she stood in the middle of Gemini, the house of Venus, 

 and there we find the Decuria of the moon (io°-20°), the Dodeca- 

 temorion of ? (i2^°-i5°), and the Moera of $ (14th deg.) See 

 the author's Astronomia ^g. PL I. Since the Egyptian astrono- 

 mers, in specifying the place of a planet, disregarded the segments 

 of the Zodiac presided over by the same planet, the Decuria of 

 the moon in n likewise occupied by the moon was not to be men- 

 tioned. Consequently the three Hori following the image of the 

 moon signify the house of Venus (n), the Dodecatemorion of Ve- 

 nus, and the Moera of Venus in n (14°), occupied by the moon. 



No. 9, decorated with the insignia of Mars, and called Am 

 (qc<M.) ktkt (o-eTs-oT) ccesor^ slaughterer, clearly denotes Mars ; 

 namely, his house containing Venus (No. 9). But since Venus's 

 elongation from the sun never amounts to more than 48°, and the 

 houses of Mars / and « being 60 degs. away from the place of 

 the sun between ^ and X, it is evident that the Martial god No. 9 

 cannot signify the house of Mars, but a zodiacal segment of %> not 

 too far from the sun. The computation shows that on the said 

 day Venus stood 39° east of the sun, 10' 9° in T, the house of 

 Jupiter. The loth degree of Aries belonged to the Decuria of 

 Venus (o°-io°), the Horion of Venus (S°-i4°), the Dodecatemo- 

 rion of Venns (7^-10°), and to the Moera of Mars (9°). Zodia- 

 cal segments occupied by a planet presiding over the same seg, 

 ments being regularly omitted, it is natural that Venus was joined 

 with a zodiacal segment of Mars. See my Astronomia ^^gyp. 

 PI. I. 



