. Kings and gods of Egypt . ledcross 1, the emblem of life. The hair, formerlygilded, is separated into many slender braids,some fall about her shoulders, the others aregathered about her brow to form a coronet which iswrought with flowers. The colour of the trans-parent clinging robe is red, its edges trimmed with cult, mingled with interlaced foliage. There were seen in suc-cession, the eagle of the Ptolemies; a bulls skull, recalling thesacrificial animal; a radiating uraeus; a flying bird; a dwarfgladiator; the typhonian animal seated and snapping his jaws; asymbolic figure which looks lik
. Kings and gods of Egypt . ledcross 1, the emblem of life. The hair, formerlygilded, is separated into many slender braids,some fall about her shoulders, the others aregathered about her brow to form a coronet which iswrought with flowers. The colour of the trans-parent clinging robe is red, its edges trimmed with cult, mingled with interlaced foliage. There were seen in suc-cession, the eagle of the Ptolemies; a bulls skull, recalling thesacrificial animal; a radiating uraeus; a flying bird; a dwarfgladiator; the typhonian animal seated and snapping his jaws; asymbolic figure which looks like a foetus surrounded by ears ofcorn; a vessel in which Isis carried Nile water; and finally thesistrum which the goddess shakes (cf. Mazois, xi, PI. 4; Guzman,Pompeii, p. 87). 1 It is the apertio templi, the opening of the temple (Apu-leius, xii). In the Egyptian ritual, the opening of the doors ofthe shrine was welcomed by hymns which have been preserved(A. Moret, Ritnel du culte divin, p. 67). 164 Kings and Gods of Egypt. embroidery of her neck is abroad necklace fromwhich small pendantsfall, j> those on thebreast are in the formof a moon-crescentand a A girdlegathers the robe be-neath her breast, itsclasp adorned withtwo crocodile heads,the crocodile beingthe typhonian animalsubject to the goddess (Fig. 9)-) Before the image, thus revealed, the priests pour libations of holy water, sup- p osed to come from the Nile,1 PlG. 9.—The Statue of Isis in the Temple at and SprinklePompeii.(Real Museo Borbonico, t. xiv, pi. 35.) the congre- 1 Commentary of Servius upon the JEntid, iv, 512:templo Isidis aqua sparsa de Nilo esse dicebatur. In The- Mysteries of I »is 165 gation; the sacred fire is then prepared BO tl: •cording to Egyptian ritual, th< tuary may be purified by fire and water. Next, the high-pristanding on the threshold of the cella, awakens thegoddess, addressing her in tl. ptian languaj at his bidding, she arouses from her slumber, com-pelled
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