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placed. Besides, the names Beniio Venus (benus), the 
Hebrew benoth (genitrix), originate from the same root. 
ISo. 11 is the well-known " Anub" or Anubis, distinguished 
by a fox-head, the god Mercury, the warden of Cancer, his 
house. The sign, following Cancer, is Leo, put to the feet of 
the mummy. 
The planetary configurations, thus expressed, are easily 
computed. It is to be remembered only that the ancients 
placed, at that time, the vernal equinox between the signs 
Taurus and Gemini, whilst our planetary tables, of course, 
take Aries for the first sign. The following computation for 
1722 b.c, Oct. 7th, 6h P. T., then the day of the autumnal 
equinox, is the work of Dr. Lentog, and Professor 0. W. 
Mitchel, at Albany, New York : — 
Ancient Observation. 
Saturn in Scorpio, 0°— 30°. 
Jupiter in Cancer, 7° 30'. 
Mars in Leo, 0°— 30°. 
Sun in Libra, 0° 0'. 
Venus in Libra, 10° — 14°. 
Mercury in Virgo,0° — 30°(retrog.) 
Moon in Libra, 14°— 20°. 
Computation. 
Scorpio, 21° 49'. 
Cancer, 10° 30'. 
Leo, 27° 14'. 
Libra, 0°— 6'. 
Libra, 11° 37'. 
Virgo, 16° 49' (retrogr.) 
Libra, 24° 48'. 
This planetary configuration, depicted on the coffin, proves 
then, that the minister of Osimanphtha and Ramses was 
born, not about the year 1450 B.C., as Champollion and 
Osburn imagined, but in 1722 B.C. And this result harmo- 
nises surprisingly with the planetary configurations repre- 
sented on the sarcophagi of Osimanphtha and Pamses, 
according to which the former was born in 1730, the latter 
in 1693 b.c Consequently their minister was eight years 
younger than Osimanphtha, and twenty-nine years older 
than his son Pamses, the last king of the XVIIIth dynasty. 
Probably the objection might be raised that a planetary 
configuration like this may also have occurred in earlier or 
later times. This objection, however, is easily disposed of. 
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