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peated, differing only in this respect, that no votiviare presented, 
and the goddess, entirely serpentine, is resting on the outside 
Fig. 54. Another, ditto ditto. These three tablets are fully described in the text. 
of the shrine or pylon. In fig. 54 * * * § Ranno is represented as 
a female figure, only so far ophite as to have a serpent's head. 
She is seated upon the ordinary throne of the gods, and m 
her right hand holds the peculiar cucufa staff, used by the 
male deities alone (the proper sceptre of the goddesses being a 
papyrus stem in blossom, with which they are usually repre- 
sented); t the left hand of the deity appears to have been in- 
tended ’to clasp the ankh or cross of life.J A priest kneeling 
before the great goddess, shields his face with his hands while 
supplicating her favour. In fig. 55 § the subject represented is 
purely mythical, and forms part of the vignette to a funeral stele. 
Fig. 55. The god Chnum overcanopied by the goddess Ranno. (Same collection.) 
This picture contains the Deity Chnuphis (fig. 55), or Kneph-Ra, 
the creating agency, || in the form of a ram-headed man, sitting 
* Beimore Collection, plate 7. 
t See an example in the British Museum, from the Wilkinson Collec- 
tion, Case 1, Great Saloon. 
x See for examples of both this sceptre and the ankh, the colossal statues 
of the goddess Pasht or Bubastis at the British Museum, Lower Saloon. 
§ Beimore Collection. 
|| Or Num, according to Dr. Birch. 
