Clarke, Edward Daniel: Testimonies of different authors, respecting the colossal statue of Ceres: placed in the vestibule of the Public Library at Cambridge, July the 1st, 1803 ; with a short account of its removal from Eleusis, November 22, 1801 (Cambridge, 1803)

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the customs and the language of the countries in
which they were worshipped.

A representation of Isis has been engraved
at Paris, bearing on its head a crown, or turret,
which approaches to the KaAafii'cv of Ceres:* and
this turret is distinguished by the particular sym-
bol which is placed near the vase in front of

the KaAaGiw.^

To these facts an observation may be added.
Historians have offered no reason to believe that
Statues of the Canephorce adorned the Mystic
Temple at Eleuftis. The researches which have
taken place among its ruins afford additional
proof against such an opinion. Not a single
fragment of that nature has been discovered;
and such Statues when annexed to buildings
were never single.

It is now above an hundred and twenty-seven
years since this Statue was first discovered by
Wheler, and made known to the world by the
publication of his Travels. During all that
period, various attempts were made for its

* See fig. 5. of the Plate.

§ See fig. 6. and 7. of the Plate. Fig. 6. represents the form
and position of the symbol on the KaAa9io» of the Eleusinian Statue.
Fig. 7. the same symbol, as it appears on the head of Isis in fig. 5.

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