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we can well believe, was a marriage of policy in order to clinch by 

 a legal measure his claim to that crown which he had already won 

 for himself in battle. Sir James Frazer has noted that sometimes 

 apparently the right to the hand of the princess and to the throne 

 has been determined by a race. The Libyan king Antjjous placed his 

 daughter Barce at the end of a race course; her noble suitors, both 

 Libyans and foreigners, ran to her as the goal, and the one v/ho 

 touched her first gained her in marriage. The Alitemnian Libyans 

 awarded the kingdom to the fleetest runner. According to tradition, 

 the earliest games at Olympia were held by Endymion, who set his 

 sons to run a race for the kingdom. In all the ceremonies connected 

 with the Sed festival I can see no feature that suggests the Osirifi- 

 cation of the king. When he wears the red crown he assumes con- 

 trol of Lower Egypt; when he wears the white crown he assumes 

 control of Upper Egypt. There is one further point connected Avith 

 the western side of the Delta that must be noted. Glazeware (and 

 glass) in Egyptian is called tehent; this was one of the chief articles 

 of export of Tehenu-land. Just as we use the word " china " for a 

 kind of porcelain which fii-st came to us from China, so the Egyp- 

 tians called glass tkn.t after the country of the northwestern Delta 

 from which they derived it. Here in this western side of Lower- 

 Egypt is an almost wholly unexplored field for the anthropologist. 

 I have already referred to the pastoral deity Anzety, who, in ihsi 

 Pyramid Age, was chief of the nomes of the Eastern Delta. Among 

 all the nome gods he is the only one that is figured in human form ; 

 he stands erect holding in his right hand the shepherd's crook 

 and in his left the goatherd's ladanisterion. On his head is a bi- 

 cornate object that is connected with goats, and on his chin is a 

 false beard curled at the tip. He was not an ox herd, but a shepherd 

 and goatherd. In later times, the figure of this deity, in hieroglyphic 

 writing, is regularly used as the determinative sign of the word 

 ity, " ruling prince," " sovereign," a term that is only applied to the 

 living king. In the Pyramid texts, Anzety is entitled "Head of 

 the Eastern nomes," and these included the ancient one of the 

 Oxyrrhynchus fish, where, later, the ram or goat was the chief 

 cult animal. Neither the domesticated sheep nor the goat can be 

 reckoned as Egyptian in origin; they both came into Egypt from 

 Western Asia. We have, therefore, in this pastoral deity Anzety 

 evidence of immigration from the west. The only wild sheep 

 inhabiting the continent of Africa is the Barbary sheep, and this 

 animal was not the ancestor of any domesticated breed. Both the 

 sheep and the goat are essentially mountain animals, though sheep 

 in the wild state do not as a rule frequent such rugged and 

 precipitous ground as their near relatives the goats, but prefer more 

 open country. Sheep browse in short grass; goats feed upon the 



