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in the sacred boat Baris, while the goddess Ranno (fig. 56), 
as a serpent, canopies him with her divine hypostasis, a sub- 
Fig. 56. The sacred boat (Baris) of the sun, with the head of Amun, the supreme 
deity, encompassed by the serpent of goodness. (From the sarcophagus of 
Oimenepthah I.) 
ject exactly similar to the vignette on the mummy-case of 
Aero Ai, before referred to, excepting that in this case the 
deity is Kneph-, and in the other, Horus-Ra. Both may 
probably idealize the same theory, — abstract immortality. It 
must, however, not be overlooked that, while in the case of 
Horus, Ranno wears the crown of the united kingdom, in that 
of Kneph-Ra she is coronated with the head-dress of Osiris, 
Fig. 57. Sepulchral tablet representing the worship of the goddess Ranno. (Same 
collection.) 
the avenger and judge of all men. In fig. 57,* which, 
like fig. 56, is defective, a priest is figured adoring Mersokar, 
the goddess of Upper Egypt, and presenting for her acceptance 
a tablet of cakes and bread. One remarkable peculiarity dis- 
tinguishes this tablet : the goddess herself is not only drawn 
as a urseus, but her crest is surmounted by a head-dress formed 
of three uraai, each wearing the solar disk, as if to indicate a 
trinity of potentiality, or the junction of the offices of Isis, 
Nepthys, and Osiris, in her own person, three being, as is well 
known, the common Egyptian numerograph for completeness. 
* Belmore CollectioD, plate 8. 
