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to signify luatevy was derived from the astro- CHAt. 
nomical sign of the period for the Niles ,- ■ 
inundation*. Hence we sometimes see the 
Momphta expressed by a sitting image with 
the lions head". Plutarch gives to his the 
epithet Momphcean' . Her double sex is alluded 
to by Orpheus, who describes her as the father 
and the mother of all things *. By the figure 
oi Anubis, Isis was again typified as the Hecate 
of the Greeks. It is a symbol frequently placed 
upon their sepulchral monuments''; and was 
otherwise represented by the image of Cerherus, 
with three heads, or with Jifty, as allusion is 
intended either to the Diva triformis, or to the 
pantamorphic nature of the Goddess. Among 
the gems found in Cyprus, we noticed intagliated Antient 
scarabc&i with similar symbols; and obtained 
one upon which Isis was exhibited, holding the 
quadruped as in the example of the statue dis- 
covered at Larneca, Since these antiquities 
(5) " Pingitur leonino vultu, quod Sole in Leonem ingrediente 
incrementa Tsilotica seu inundationes coDtingant." Ktrclier, (Edtp. 
Mgvpt. torn. III. p. 323. 
(6) A beautiful colossal statue of this dtscription'is now in the 
British Museum. It was among the antiquities surrendered by the 
French at the capitulation of Akxaudria. 
(7) Pint, de Isid. et Osir. Kirch. Obel. SaNiist. syntag. 4. cap. 4. 
(8) Also as Luna, according to Plutarch (De Is. et Osir. c. 43), Isis 
bears the same description with re^^ard to her double sex. ** They 
call the Moon" says he, " Mother of the World, and think it has a 
double sex." ^10 xai Mjji'efa t»i» l-Kr^ttji rtv Koefcsv xakoZfi, xu) f'jri* 
t,^£/» a^irttifnXvv e'iovTai. 
(9) See the Author's " Greek Marbles," y.lO. No. XII. 
