HIEROGLYPHIC TABLET FOUND AT SAIS. 301 
CHAP. 
VI. 
N. B. See the Plate. 
No. 1. i HE Segment of a Circle, thus placed, is Enumera- 
believed by almost all writers upon the subject of Archetypc$. 
Egyptian Hieroglyphics, to signify the Sun in 
the Lower Hemisphere. May it not therefore de- 
note a period of time ? Sometimes a small Orb 
is placed within it, as at No. 31. 
2. An Egyptian Sistrum, with four Chords, or Bars, as 
described by Plutarch fDe Isid, et Osir. c. 63.) 
the sound of which was believed to avert and 
drive away Typhon. Plutarch has given a par- 
ticular account of this instrument. 
" Quid nunc j^gyptia prosunt 
Sistraf 
3. Two Battle-axes, fashioned like weapons brought 
from the South Seas, with stone blades, fastened to 
wooden handles. 
4. The Scaralcean Ball ; — among the Egyptians, a type 
of the Sun. See KircherCEdip. Mgypt.&c, 
5. Perhaps an antient Auger, used in boring stones for 
lapidary inscriptions, &c. 
t). An Eagle, as seen on Medals of the Ptolemies. 
7. The Testudo, or two-stringed Lyre; the ©o/j^uty^ of 
Homer. 
8. Another Musical Instrument. 
