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before Ares ; ^^o^ is called Osiris. The specified Semidei refer 

 probably to the 1 2 signs as follows : 



sizsn « r K ' ^ ^ t ^ ^ "^ 



Anu. Am- Hercu. 

 bis. Apollo. Mars. iiion. Osiris. Sosos. Tithoes. les. 



At present, therefore, the shortest way for determining the 

 names and emblems of the wardens of the 12 signs of the Zodiac 

 is to examine the astronomical inscriptions on which the 12 signs 

 of the Zodiac, according to their order, are represented. Of this 

 description is the sarcophagus at Leeds, England, explained in 

 these Transactions, vol. i. p. 356. I am sorry, however, that the 

 inscription on the right hand side of the mummy-coffin was there 

 represented incorrectly, because Mr. W. Osborne in his pamphlet 

 entitled "An Account of an Egyptian Mummy," etc., Leeds, 182S, 

 had failed to publish an exact copy of that part of the monument. 

 In 1S60 Mr. Henry Denny, then the meritorious Secretary of the 

 Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, who died this year, 

 was so kind as to send me a new and complete copy of the im- 

 perfectly represented inscription on the right side of the coffin, 

 which copy is to be found in my Bibliotheca ^gyptiaca manu- 

 scripta, vol. xiv. p. 11, 544. According to this new copy, the 

 inscription on the right hand side of the coffin has been litho- 

 graphed on our Plate 1. xi. 



This coffin representing on both sides the I3 signs or houses of 

 the planets according to their common order, it will be an easy 

 matter to determine nearly all names and emblems of the signs 

 of the Zodiac. Remember that the cup (1. ii. a. 5), called e^nox, 

 expresses syllabically n^2 {beth), ^.^ht, ^.ttht, mansio ; conse- 

 quently, the 5 figures bearing this goblet on their heads (1. ix. 6, 

 and 1. xi. 3, 4, 5, 8) must be signs of the Zodiac ; and since the 

 latter run, on both sides of the coffin, from the head to the foot, in 

 the following direction, 5^, ^n^, ^ / , '^VS, ^ZH || X^T^ bS IlS ^^ 

 we understand easily what signs are signified by the said cup- 

 bearing figures, and their names. 



L. xi. 8, spelled nm, but commonly nm, is the well known 

 Egyptian Ni(fdo^^ Venus, Urania, the sixth sign after =^, i.e. CJJ, 

 the house of Saturn. See my Astron. -Eg. p. 137. 



L. xi. 5, spelled «/, signifies N-/]cS-, the Egyptian Bellona, 

 accordingly the house of Mars, namely, H. See my Astron. ^'Eg. 



