3Gii THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. CilAP. XV. 



custom in all the temples and sacred monuments 

 of Egypt. And though the statues he mentions 

 no longer remain, there is reason to believe that 

 the list of offerings is still preserved in the inner- 

 most remaining chamber of the Remeseum or 

 Memnonium, which, as I have had occasion to 

 observe *, has every appearance of being the 

 monument alluded to by Diodorus. 



In offering incense, the king held in one hand 

 the censer, and with the other threw balls or pas- 

 tiles of incense into the flame.t Then, addressing 

 the God, before whose statue he stood, with a 

 suitable prayer, to invoke his aid and favour, he 

 begged him to accept the incense he presented : 

 in return for which the Deity granted him *'along, 

 pure, and happy life," with other favours accorded 

 by the Gods to men. 



The censer t has been already noticed. A liba- 

 tion of wine was frequently offered together with 

 incense ; flowers were often presented 

 with them ; and many sacrifices con- 

 sisted of oxen or other animals, birds, 

 cakes, fruit, vegetables, ointments, 

 and other things, with incense and 

 ^of inclnse Sid a'lu Ubation. Ou souic occasions two 

 censers of incense were offered, and 

 several oxen, birds, and otlier consecrated gifts 

 were placed on the altar. And that it was custom- 

 ary to present s-everal of the same kind is shown by 

 the ordinary formula of presentation, whicli says, "I 



# Vide Vol. I. p. lU, 115. f Plate 76. 84. A-c. 



J Vide supra, p. 340. 



