370 TRANS. OF THE ACAD. OF SCIENCE. 
Remembering these rules and the specific results obtained 
from the other astronomical monuments already explained, 
any one will readily understand this new astronomical in- 
scription. 
First, everybody Geen on = sides of the coffin in (PL 
as, Nos. 1. & II.), the said houses of the planets, the 12 
Signs of the Zodiac. For, « on mache side are represented 10 
Egyptian buildings with their roofs, to which, in both cases, 
are to be numbered the two squares at the foot and the head 
of the coffin, the said houses of the Sun and the Moon; and 
each of these houses contains the image of its (Ecodespota, 
or that of a planet standing, at that time, in the ive 
sign. wee —— houses are exac tly thus ie in 
the old sacred records of Egypt, e. g., in Lepsius 
buch Pi. LXL—LXVIL, 
, which, as we have spe served in other eager 
“express the houses (abet) of the planets, or 
viz., Nos. 6, 9, 10,11. Consequently, the pers divini- 
ties in the other houses or Signs represent the planets, viz,it 
—- 3, 4, 5, 7, 8; the said four Signs only been occ 
ied by a planet. Of these Sega the only one in house 
No. 3 was retrograde, because it faces in the opp osite diner 
tion. As for the divinities in the r. Osburn nis 3 
row L.,. sbw 
copy their images from No. 6 to 11; his Platesshow only’ om 
the planets Nos 2,8 eigen inthe same chou : 
"appear in the row 
— is” now, first, ¥ what Signs or “houses te | 
planets are e d by the single divini at | 
tain homies ‘whieh —- is answered i by the names os 
a whieh are aresdy known from ‘on 
tronomiea inscriptions and from ‘ Gree owe ee le 
