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is twisted tightly against the solar disk. The serpent decorated 
the monarches crown (fig. 89) and fringed the extremities of his 
Fig. 90. Royal girdle fringed with jewelled ursei. From figure of K. Seti 
Menepthah I. (Arundale.) 
girdle (fig. 90). In another instance a sphinx, emblem of regal 
power, under the title, “Lord of the Horizon” (fig. 91), is repre- 
sented as supported by, or standing between, two procumbent 
Fig. 91. Top of an Egyptian standard Sphinx and ursei, implying heavenly victory. 
(Leemans.) 
ursei* Sometimes, as on the Soane sarcophagus (one of the 
most wonderful of all Egyptian sarcophagi, originally executed 
Fig. 92. The beetle of Chefer Ra, in the Solar orb, surrounded by the serpent Banno. 
Possibly the Egyptian original, as far as the Mythos was concerned, oi 
the Orphic figure, No. 28. (Sar. Oimen.) 
about the time of Moses, for Oimenepthah or Seti Menep- 
thah I.), the serpent of eternity environs (fig. 92) the disk of the 
* See Musee de Leide , Part I., plate 21. 
