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sacred triads, were crested with a cornice of jewelled snakes 
(fig. 11). As the emblem of divine goodness, the crowned 
Uraeus, resting upon a staff, was one of the most usual of the 
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Fig. 11. Upper portion of snake-crested cornice from intercolumnar slabs. (Philoe.) 
Egyptian standards, and the serpent upon a pole, which 
Moses, by divine direction, upheld to the Israelites in the 
wilderness (fig. 12),* has been supposed to have been either 
Fig. 12. An Egyptian standard, bearing a bronze figure of the goddess Ranno. 
(Sharpe. ) 
an adaptation, or imitation, of the well-known pagan symbol, f 
Again, when once the Uraeus had been associated with the 
idea of divinity, the Theban priests, rightly desiring to 
ascribe the gift of life and the power of healing to the Deity 
* Numbers xxi. 9. 
f Sharpe, Bible, Texts, p. 47. 
