276 THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. CHAP. XIII. 



vented their indulging in speculation upon the 

 religion they were taught to obey. 



Maut is represented as a female figure wearing 

 on her head the Pshent, or double crown, of the 

 Upper and Lower countries, placed upon a cap 

 ornamented with the head, body, and wings of a 

 vulture. This Pshent is not worn by her as by the 

 Kings, the one crown placed within the other, but 

 side by side, — a mode of arranging it adopted also 

 by Atmoo and some other Deities. Instances also 

 occur of Maut with the head of a lion, or of a cat. 

 She probably, then, has the attributes of Pasht or 

 Bubastis, or of Thriphis above mentioned. But it 

 is frequently difficult to ascertain whether these 

 heads are of a lion or of a cat ; even the ears are 

 not always a sufficient guide, though generally the 

 latter are erect and pointed, and the others round. 



The black basalt sitting figures in the British 

 Museum, and other European collections, represent 

 the Egy})tian Bubastis. 



The hieroglyphical name of Buto I have as yet 

 been unable to determine; it may possibly be that 

 given in the accompanying Woodcut, which fre- 



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No. 447. A name probably of Buto, or of Bubastis. 



qiiently occurs in Lower Egypt over a Goddess 

 with a cat's head, unless, indeed, it be another 

 form of the name Bubastis. 



