SEYFFARTH—LEEDS MUMMY- COFFIN. 379 
for Proclus (Lib, I., chap. 2, p. 10) says: “omnium ceelestium 
et terrestrium restit tutionem vel nunquam ad amussim acci- 
dunt, aut certe non iis spatiis, quze Mie tere: mic nia enna dd 
pase rica 
Thus, bie, t the resale that the priest in the Leeds coffin, a 
cotemporary of the great Sesostris, the builder of the world- 
renowned Osimandyeum at Thebes, was born in 
will, I hope, remain fixed for all time. : 
‘Finally, it will be asked, what benefit can we gather from 
such old rubbish? Let ae e. ee 
J. The Leeds mummy-coffin confirms the key to the astrono- 
mical monuments of the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. It is 
possible that my Astronomia dAigyptiaca still contains many 
s, but the pri ciples upon which it is founded can not be 
3 for, supposing I had there referred wrong Cabiri 
and wrong deities to the Signs, Decurie, and — 
—that I had d applied a wrong method of 
exp ‘the : nomical minutes of the ancient nations,— 
_ ese inseription, surely, aid never. have yielded 
manete ation harmonizi cular 
Puleral me ie tf ae : 
