When the service was over and we were crossing the temple-court, we passed some children at play, and Tachot noticed a little girl telling something very eagerly to her companions.

She told the bearers to put down the litter and call the child to her.
"'What were you saying ?' she asked the little one.
"I was telling the others something about my eldest sister.' "'May I hear it too ?'" said Tachot so kindly, that the little girl began at once without fear: "Batau, who is betrothed to my sister, came back from Thebes quite unexpectedly yesterday evening.

Just as the Isis-star was rising, he came suddenly on to our roof where Kerimama was playing at draughts with my father; and he brought her such a beautiful golden bridal wreath." [Among the Egyptians the planet Venus bore the name of the goddess Isis.

Pliny II.6.Arist De mundo II.7.Early monuments prove that they were acquainted with the identity of the morning and evening star.

Lepsius, Chronologie p.