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It is remarkable enoiigli, tbat^ in this curio 
monument, the planets and the decani, the last 
of which only are figured in the Egyptian style 
with heads or masks of animals, are found placed 
in contrary directions. Though in the two zones, 
which represent the Greek zodiac, four signs are 
repeated under the same forms, we must not 
thence conclude that the others were equally 
identic. It were above all to be wished, that 
the Twins, and Pan, or Capricorn, had been 
preserved in the two zones ; for the sculptor 
seems to have had the intention of uniting the 
zodiacs of different nations, and the heterogene^ 
ous forms* given to the same asterisms among 
the Chaldeans, the Egyptians, and the Greeks. 
The Twins are represented by two figures, 
which Mr. Bailly thought to be of different 
sexes, one of which holds a club, and the other - 
a lyre. It is under this same form, that this sign 
is described in the Astronomicon of Hyginus ; 
and thus that it is figured in the Sanscrit verses 
of the poet Sripeti : the couple, mithouna^^ 
says this Hindoo writer, is composed of a girl, 
* Eratosthenis Cataster., ed. Scbaubacb., 1795, page 21 , 
Hygin. Poeticon Astr., lib. 2, c. 28 3 lib. 3, c. 27. (Auctores 
IMytbographi Latini, ed. van Stuveren, 1742, torn. 2 , page 
481—628). 
+ Lib. 3, c. 21 . (Auct. Mytbograph. tom. 2 , page 623). 
Du Cboul, Discours de la Religion des Anciens Romains, 
155^, page 180. Ideler, Sternnamen, s. 151. 
