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History of Phoenicia

CHAPTER VII--AESTHETIC ART
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In one may be recognised the figure of Isis-Athor, seated on a sort of camp-stool, and giving suck to the young Horus;[774] on an altar in front of the goddess is placed the disk of the moon, enveloped (as we have seen it elsewhere) by a crescent which recalls the moon's phases.

Behind the altar stands a personage whose sex is not defined; the right hand, which is raised, holds a _patera_, while the left, which falls along the hip, has the _ankh_ or _crux ansata_.
Another of the scenes corresponds to this, and offers many striking analogies.

The altar indeed is of a different form, but it supports exactly the same symbols.

The goddess sits upon a throne with her feet on a footstool; she has no child; in one hand she holds out a cup, in the other a lotus blossom.

The personage who confronts her wears a conical cap, and is clothed, like the worshipper of the corresponding representation, in a long robe pressed close to the body by a girdle _a cordeliere_; he has also the _crux ansata_, and holds in the right hand an object the character and use of which I am unable to conjecture.
We may associate with these two scenes of homage and worship another representation in which there figure three musicians.


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