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priests of the Temple of Ka at Heliopolis, and the priestesses of 
Isis at Alexandria,* carried serpents m their hands or m Cane- 
Fig 9. The basket of the Eleusinian Cansphorse, 
the basket of Jupiter Serapis was derived. 
containing a serpent, from whence 
From a Greek coin. (Sharpe.) 
phorse on their heads (fig. 9) to declare their divine ordination 
(fig. 1 0) . Hence also, the secret adyta, or sacristies of the divmi- 
Fig. 10. 
Egyptian priestess carrying the urseus. From a 
Bartoli’s Admiranda. 
Ptolemaic slab engraved in 
ties, and the sculptured arks, with the massive shrines, great 
(Urseus.) 
And her vast length along the sand extends; 
Where’er she wounds, from every part the blood 
Gushes resistless in a crimson flood. . . • • 
The Basilisk, with dreadful hissings heard, 
And from afar by every serpent feared, 
To distance drives the vulgar, and remains 
The lonely — .Sob -SO,' Bowes Translation, 
* Sometimes the Pschent or Koyal crown *as touted by a crestmg 
of pendent ursei similar to the usual ornamentation ot a shrine. I 
Abth. iii. Bl. 234. 
