242 PYRAMIDS OF SACCARA. 
CHAP. 9. Similar figures of Isis. See No. 7 . 
^ -^- ■ 10. Beads of white glass, each of which has 
seven blue spots. .See No. 8. 
11. Beads of white g]ass, without spots. 
12. Deformed images, resembling the idols of 
India and China. See No. 9. 
13. Phalli, and indecent images of Osiris, 
as mentioned by Plutarch\ All these 
are of blue glass, bored, to be worn as 
amulets. 
14. Small amulets of the same substance, and 
similarly bored, which are very numerous, 
representing a horse's head. This is the 
symbol which J^irgil mentions as being 
found by the Carthaginians in digging for 
the foundation of their city'. It is repre- 
sented upon the medals of Carthage, which 
probaby suggested the circumstance to 
Ftrgirs mind. It also appears upon the 
Soros, called the Lovers Fountain, which 
(l) XlavTcc;;^ov Ti xa.) av^pu'Tofiiippov 'OiripiScs olyaXfia ^uxvvturiy, llW/a^av tm 
a'lhlu, ha 70 yivi/xoy xai to Tpofii//,ov. Plut. de Isid. et Osir. c. 51. L/Ut. 
1624. 
(2) " Lucus in urbe fuit media, laetissitnus umbr^. 
Quo primum jaotati undis et turbine, Poeni 
EflFodere loco signuni, quod regia Juno 
Monstrarat, caput acris equi." ^neid. I. 445. 
