It is among the rich decorations of a mummy's coffin, forming part of the Royal Egyptian Museum of Turin, that we found the divinity represented on this plate. The insignia which surmount his headdress, a sort of vase flanked by two green ostrich feathers, the goat's
" The Egyptian temples ," says Clement of Alexandria, "their porticoes and vestibules are magnificently constructed; the courts are surrounded by columns; precious and brilliant marbles of varied colours decorate the walls, so that everything is matched; the naos shine with the brilliance of gold, silver, electrum, and precious
Most Eastern cosmogonies admit that water existed before the material organization of other parts of the globe, whose germs were confused and intermingled in this fluid. Several Greek philosophers have also systematically maintained that water was the principle of all things; this doctrine came, in all appearance, from the sanctuaries