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whom were well acquainted with its Pagan chap. 
origin, inveigh against this custom, as a cere- 
mony of the priests of his. The whole of this 
symbolical picture may have related to a sepul- 
chral subject : its meaning was explained by 
inscriptions placed above the figures, and in 
other parts of the tablet. Anuhis with the e^^y 
and the type of Life to come in his left hand\ 
may typify that embryo state of the soul which 
precedes its revivification after death ; as may 
also the unexpanded flower of the Lotus. An- 
other symbolical picture, below this, exhibits a 
solemn procession, perhaps the same which 
Plutarch describes* as taking place annually, 
upon the nineteenth of the Egyptian month 
Pachon ; when the priests carried rich odours 
and spices to celebrate the priding of Osiris, a 
ceremony much resembling that of the Resurrec- 
tion in the Greek Church ; the Christos voscress 
of the Russians. Inscriptions occupy all the rest 
of the tablet, either engraven in regular lines 
beneath, upon the lower part of the stone, or 
above the heads and by the sides of the pic- 
tured figures. This very curious relic, therefore, 
(4) See Chap. IV. pp. 15'2, 153, of this Volume. 
(5) De Lid. et Odr. p. 39. Camb. 1744. 
