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Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840], at DarkSideOfTheNet.com

XLI. HOW THEY SIGNIFY THE BEARER OF THE SHRINE.

To signify the bearer of the shrine, 3 they depict the KEEPER

p. 64

OF A HOUSE, because by him the temple is guarded.

Footnotes

63:2

I. Shrine or small portable temple, which was borne like the Jewish ark by staves passed along its sides, as above.—Sh. 361.

II. This figure supporting a shrine is very common.

III. A temple; literally a shrine-house.—Sh. 362.

63:3 The cell in which the statue was carried in procession.

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