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thirty Egyptian (vague) years (p. 432). This is the origin of the 

 Egyptian period of 30 years so often mentioned on Egyptian 

 monuments, e.g. on the Rosetta Stone. There king Ptolemaeus 

 Epiphanes is called the lord of the Triacontaeteris, because he 

 was born in the year in which that festivity was again celebrated, 

 and the period itself is expressed by the images of the throat, in- 

 clusive the uvula, *o*, the Hebrew -|n (chok), and the dish or 

 bowl (re'\, •'^3^ (keli), containing a grain of sand (a.\), which give 

 the letters chg kll^ i.e. yr\ (chog), o-^iA, ^1^3 (kalil), the sacrificial 

 festivity. The cartouch of Horus, then, includes the following 

 words : Amn mr (&..M.oirn Avcpe) kr (KOTj-po) nb (nnfi) m (A) kll 

 (^(t\\\), i.e. The creator's love, Horus, the lord of the jubilee of 

 thirty years. 



Finally, No. i represents the moon, called Athoth, and orna- 

 mented with the crescent, the usual emblem of the moon upon 

 the head of an ibis. The latter, it is true, usually signifies Mer- 

 cury (see PI. I. 1. i. 3), but the ancients distinguished different 

 Thoths, Mercuries, Hermeses. Manetho (Syncell. p. 40, Paris) 

 mentions three Thoths, and Cicero (N. D. iii. 22) knew of four 

 different Mercuries. Even the Calendaria rustica of the Ro- 

 mans and Manilius call the warden of the house of the moon 

 Mercury. (See the writer's Berichtigungen, etc. p. 206.) The 

 notorious image of Mercury bearing wings on its feet and head, 

 signifying celerity, is not the planet Mercury, but the Moon, the 

 quickest of all planets. The proper signification of our Thoth, 

 however, is put beyond question by the distinctive crescent, never 

 appropriate for Mercury. 



At present we understand the disposition of the seven planets 

 on our astronomical monument to be in this order : 



14 6 8 ic 12 14 



C Thoth, % Horus, )j Busiris, v Anubis, 9 Koros, cf Phtha, 1| Amun. 



We have now to proceed to the principal question : In what 

 places of the Zodiac stood the seven planets at the beginning of 

 the year in which Horus, the 9th king of the XVIIIth dynasty, 

 the son of Amenophis II., commenced to reign.? 



No 3, representing a deity nursing the child Horus and the 

 following Anuke (No. 5) is the first sign after the winter solstice, 



the original sign of X (p. ) ; for an Egyptian inscription 



parallels Anuke with Vesta (Letronne, Rer. 344, \houxs! zrj xa'c 



