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are wine, oil, beer, milk, cakes, grain, ointment, 

 flowers, fruit, vegetables, and various productions of 

 the soil, which answered in some degree to the 

 Minclia of the Jews. They are not only intro- 

 duced upon the altars themselves, but are enu- 

 merated in lists or catalogues sculptured in the 

 temples and tombs, some of which specify the day 

 and month, on which they were dedicated to the 

 Deity. 



The ordinary subjects in the interior of the 

 temples represent the king presenting offerings to 

 the Deities worshipped there; the most remark- 

 able of which are the sacrifices already mentioned, 

 incense, libation, and several emblematic figures 

 or devices connected with religion. He sometimes 

 made an appropriate offering to the presiding Deity 

 of the sanctuary, and to each of the contemplar 

 Gods, as Diodorus * says Osymandyas was repre- 

 sented to have done ; the memorial of which act 

 of piety was preserved in the sculptures of his 

 tomb. The historian's words are, " Contiguous 

 to the library stand the images of all the Gods of 

 Egypt, to each of whom the king presents a 

 suitable offering, in order to show to Osiris and 

 the Assessors seated below him that his life 

 had been spent in piety and justice towards gods 

 and men.** We are not, however, to suppose that 

 every Deity of the country was there introduced ; 

 but those only who held a place among the con- 

 templar Gods worshipped in the city, as was the 



* Diodor. i. 49. 



