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not then occur to me, that they were ever exprefied 
in any other form than the canine, I did not examine 
minutely into the difference : but, upon recolledion, 
I am now inclined to think, that that monfler 
might have the heads of three feveral animals in this 
piece, as he has in another, given us by (24) Mont- 
faucon : which mode of exhibiting him was (ac- 
cording to that learned (25) antiquary) invented by 
the Egyptians j a circumftance not to be wondered 
at in a people, whofe imagination teemed fo plenti- 
fully with monftrous ideas of all kinds, as theirs is 
known to have done. 
To the fame original we may refer the ferpent 
twitting round Cerberus in this monument ; as we 
fee two of the fame fpecies encircling his heads and 
body in that mentioned above (26). As I know no 
particular relation, that the ferpent bears to Serapis, 
confidered as Pluto, I can regard it here only as a 
facred fymbol in the theology of the ancient Egyp- 
tians j and, as fuch, properly attributed to an attend- 
ant of one of their chief divinities. 
I fhall trouble you but with one more obfervation 
upon this article, viz. that (if I may trull my memory 
for a particular omitted in my notes) this is the ttatue, 
which being the principal one found in an ancient 
magnificent building difcovered about feven years ago 
at (27) Pozzuoli (in conjunction with other circum- 
ftances) occafioned it to be called The Temple of 
(24) Suppl. T. ii. L. vi. c. 10. Tab. xlviii. 
(25) Montfaucon, ibid. 
(26) Montfaucon, ibid. 
(27) Vid. Obfervations fur les Antiquites d’Herculaneum, &c. 
par MelT. Cochin & Bellicard, p. 83. Paris 1755. 
Serapis. 
