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white marble, the draper)' in black marble. The general characteristics
of the Isis figures are the stiffly folded tunic, the fringed upper gar-
ment, gathered together in a knot between the breasts. Above the
forehead is a crescent and a flower—perhaps of the lotus ; and the hair
in this and other examples is elegantly braided in long tresses
(fig. 268).
Horns was regarded by the Greeks and Romans as the God of
Silence, and was said to have been born with his .a
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finger on his mouth.
Quique prern.it vocem, digitoque silentia suadct.1
It is very doubtful, however, whether this view
of his nature is the correct one. In the opinion
of many writers the finger on the lip and the lock
of hair on the forehead arc intended to characterise
his relation to his parents, Osiris and Isis, as the
Child} He is identified with Harpocrates and
Apollo, and became king of Egypt after his father's
death.3 We find him represented chiefly in small
bronze statuettes which served as amulets.
Sarapis appears to have been the Egyptian
god of the dead,4 and he had temples at Memphis
and Racotis, on the site of which Alexandria
was built. The first Ptolemy, in consequence of
a vision, ordered the ancient image of Zeus-Pluto,
bearing its appropriate attributes—the chthonic statue of isis.
serpent and the hell-hound Cerberus—to be brought
from Sinope to Alexandria, where it was immediately called Sarapis.''
There is a fine statue of Zcns-Sarapis in the Chiaramonti Gallery of
the Vatican, with the features of Jove, but with hair drooping over
the forehead, and of gloomy aspect. There is another Zcns-Sarapis
with the modius on his head in the Villa AIbani (No. 246). Sarapis
was little known before the time of Alexander.
1 Ovid, Mil. ix. got. Osir. Apollodirus (ii. 4. 10) says that Apis
3 Bnutn, Betdkr. it. ISfftitkek. fsoo ofThorooem mm L»odice) having been
" Herod, ii. 144, 156. slain, was regarded as a god, and Worshipped
' lulian, Imp. Oral. iv. under the name of Sarapis.
' Tae. Jlht. iy. 2t. I'iulaich, ,it /siif el
white marble, the draper)' in black marble. The general characteristics
of the Isis figures are the stiffly folded tunic, the fringed upper gar-
ment, gathered together in a knot between the breasts. Above the
forehead is a crescent and a flower—perhaps of the lotus ; and the hair
in this and other examples is elegantly braided in long tresses
(fig. 268).
Horns was regarded by the Greeks and Romans as the God of
Silence, and was said to have been born with his .a
r ic. 20s.
finger on his mouth.
Quique prern.it vocem, digitoque silentia suadct.1
It is very doubtful, however, whether this view
of his nature is the correct one. In the opinion
of many writers the finger on the lip and the lock
of hair on the forehead arc intended to characterise
his relation to his parents, Osiris and Isis, as the
Child} He is identified with Harpocrates and
Apollo, and became king of Egypt after his father's
death.3 We find him represented chiefly in small
bronze statuettes which served as amulets.
Sarapis appears to have been the Egyptian
god of the dead,4 and he had temples at Memphis
and Racotis, on the site of which Alexandria
was built. The first Ptolemy, in consequence of
a vision, ordered the ancient image of Zeus-Pluto,
bearing its appropriate attributes—the chthonic statue of isis.
serpent and the hell-hound Cerberus—to be brought
from Sinope to Alexandria, where it was immediately called Sarapis.''
There is a fine statue of Zcns-Sarapis in the Chiaramonti Gallery of
the Vatican, with the features of Jove, but with hair drooping over
the forehead, and of gloomy aspect. There is another Zcns-Sarapis
with the modius on his head in the Villa AIbani (No. 246). Sarapis
was little known before the time of Alexander.
1 Ovid, Mil. ix. got. Osir. Apollodirus (ii. 4. 10) says that Apis
3 Bnutn, Betdkr. it. ISfftitkek. fsoo ofThorooem mm L»odice) having been
" Herod, ii. 144, 156. slain, was regarded as a god, and Worshipped
' lulian, Imp. Oral. iv. under the name of Sarapis.
' Tae. Jlht. iy. 2t. I'iulaich, ,it /siif el