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sun with seven involutions,* and the circle is completed by the 
tail of the reptile being placed in its mouth, as in the Greek 
Fig. 93. Double snake-headed deity. (Sar. Oimen.) 
interpretation. f In the Museum specimen, however, the 
Coluber, and not the Naja or Cobra, is the species of snake 
Fig. 94. Single snake-headed deity wearing the crown of Lower Egypt. (Sar. Oimen.) 
adopted. Again on the same work of art is a long vignette 
representing a number of deities, many of these again being 
Fig. 95. Quadruple snake-headed deity holding forth a knife to slay the Apophis. 
(Sar. Oimen.) 
* A similar representation at the foot of the sarcophagus of Naskatu, at 
the British Museum, gives nineteen involutions to the same symbolic serpent, 
t See Bonomi’s Sarcophagus of Oimenepthah J., plate 5. 
