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with the Sun-god (No. 2) ; wherefore % stood in iri! , the house of 

 the sun. 



No. 3 : Mak, Saturn, combined with with the Decuria of Mer- 

 cury of the same sign w, is evidence that h stood between TO°and 

 20° in Tiu. 



No. 5 : Lunus, followed by Neith (No. 6), the warden of Sagit- 

 tarius, the house of Mars, occupies t . 



No. 7: the Sun-god, held by Venus (No. 8), represents the 

 sun on the vernal equinoctial day, i.e. in o' o"^ o' ; consequently 

 the observation of the seven planets refers to March 24th, then the 

 vernal equinox. 



No. 9 : the ram-headed deity, the readily recognized Jupiter 

 Ammon, is referred to the house of Mercury, Libra (No. 10). 



No. 1 1 : Venus, the well known sparrowhawk-headed god, is 

 followed by the goddess signifying Mercury (PI. 1. 1. vi. i & i, iii. 

 2), because Venus stood in the Horion and Dodecatemorion of 

 Mercury in the sign of Taurus. 



No. 13, finally, being damaged, must, of course, express the 

 resting planet Mercury, and the two conjoined figures (14 and 

 13) are the smaller segments in Taurus which were occupied by 

 Mercury. 



The computation of this planetary configuration agrees with 

 the reported places of the planets. Apart from all other planets, 

 the positions of the sun in n 0°, of the moon in ^ 2o°-30°, and 

 of Mars in the house of the sun (np), put beyond question that 

 the observation was made on the vernal equinoctial day of the 

 year _202. 



The Egyptians having been in the habit of fixing historical 

 events by representing the planetary configuration on a cardinal 

 day next preceding, it follows that Ptolemsus Philopator died 

 and Epiphanes followed between the vernal equinox and summer 

 solstice of the year _202. 



As far as the other deities below the principal rows are con- 

 cerned, they signify the variety of the zodiacal stars following 

 each planet, as is the case with the figures on the sarcophagi of 

 Osimandyas, Ramses and Takelophis, the monolith of Amos, 

 and the like. 



