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markable for a kind of headdress, somewhat re- 
sembling’ the veil or calantica of the heads of 
Isis, the Sphinxes, Antinous, and a great num- 
ber of other Egyptian statues. It must never- 
theless be observed, that, in the Egyptian veil, 
the two ends, which fall below the ears, are ge- 
nerally very scanty and cross folded. In several 
statues of the God Apis, in the Museum of the 
Capitol, the ends are convex in the front, and 
plaited lengthways, while the back part, that 
which touches the neck, is constantly flat, and 
not rounded as in the Mexican headdress. That 
the greatest analogy exists between this head- 
dress and the plaited drapery, that encircles the 
heads incrusted on the pillars of Tentyra, is 
evident from the accurate drawings, which M. 
Denon has given in his Travels in Egypt. 
Perhaps the fluted pads, which in the Mexican 
statue extend towards the shoulders, are masses 
of hair, • like the tresses in a statue of Isis, of 
Greek workmanship, placed in the library of the 
Villa Ludovisi at Rome. This singular arrange- 
ment of the hair is particularly striking on the 
reverse of the statue, engraved on the second 
plate, which presents an enormous bag tied in the 
middle by a knot. The celebrated Zoega, of 
whom the fine arts have lately been deprived 
by death, assured me, tliat he had seen a bag of 
exactly the same form on a small statue of Osiris 
in bronze, in the Museum of Cardinal Borgia, 
