SEYFFARTH ORIGINAL EGYPTIAN NAMES OF PLANETS. 437 



Jf.. Ccesarion's Nativity. 

 The astronomical inscription under consideration, preserved on 

 a temple-wall of Dendera, has been represented by Rosellini in 

 his " Monumenti del Egitto e della Nubia," vol. iv., PI. cccxlix. 

 The astronomical figures being nearly the same as explained in 

 the premises, no extensive commentary will be needed for under- 

 standing the single planetary and zodiacal deities, and fixing the 

 day and the year of the observation. 



The principal figure, oftering an incense sacrifice in front of 

 the row of the astronomical figures, is a juvenile king called Neo- 

 CEBsaros, the reported son of Cleopatra and C. J. Caesar. 



The facing deity is >^r, expressed by the sparrow-hawk, the 

 sun (PI. I. 1. i. No. i) ; consequently, Roirpo (Cyrus), the sun. 

 The following goddess represents the figure of Isis, the man, the 

 warden of the house of the moon, the original SI (Plate I. iii. i). 

 This conjunction of the sun with Isis argues that our planetary 

 configuration was observed on the cardinal day of the summer 

 solstice. 



Behind C^esarion and opposite to the sun appears Isis (D), and 

 thus it was signified that on the same day the moon stood in the 

 opposite sign (X). Since the moon during a period of 19 years 

 is only once full on the summer solstitial day, the year in which 

 Csesarion was born, viz. 45 B.C., is already fixed. 



The next planet, the sparrowhawk-headed "Horus," the Greek 

 z6/>oc, the Apollino of the Romans, Mercury, is followed by Osi- 

 ris (©), likewise expressed by the sparrow-hawk (PI. 1. 1. viii. 3). 

 Near the sun in SI 30°, being the Decuria of the © (20°-30°), the 

 longitude of ^ on the said day is determined. 



The next planet, again expressed by the sparrowhawk-headed 

 Horus, is Venus (PL I. 1. i. No. 4) ; she is followed by the well 

 known Isis-Venus, and, there being a Horion of Venus near the 

 sun in SI, this planet appeared between 13°-! 8° in Leo. 



The other part of the row declares, in the first place, that the 

 moon stood then in the Dodecatemorion of Mercury in X, i.e. 25° 

 -27^°, or in the Moera of 5 (X 20°), which makes no difference 

 concerning the day. 



The sequent figure of the ©, followed by the Sun-god, proves 

 that this planet appeared not only in the house of the moon (SI), 



