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View to the South-West from the Sacred Lake of Amen-R? 103

Ruins of Door at Entrance of the Sanctuary 104

The Obelisks near the Oldest Part of the Temple of Amen-R? 105

Inner Court and Sanctuary at Edf? 106

Plan of the Temple of Amen-R? 118

Model Illustrating the Precession of the Equinoxes 125

Star-map Representing the Precessional Movement of the Celestial Pole from the Year 4000 B.C. to the year 2000 A.D. 127

Northern Half of the So-called Square Zodiac of Denderah 136

Sirius and Orion 139

Astronomical Drawing's from Bib?n el-Mul?k 140

Ruins of the Ramesseum, where the Month-Tables were found 142

The God of Darkness--Set 144

Various Forms of Anubis 145

Forms of Typhon 146

Mestha. H?pi, Tuam?utef, Qebhsennuf 147

Set-Horus 149

Illustration from a Theban Tomb 151

Horus and Crocodiles 152

Horus and Crocodiles, Ptah and Crocodiles 153

Ground Plan of Edf? 157

Ground Plan of the Temple of Hathor at Denderah; Plan of the Temple of Seti at Abydos 158

Plan of Temples at Med?net-Hab? 164

The Bent Axis of the Temple of Luxor 165

The Laying of the Foundation Stone Ceremonial 174

Plan of Denderah 192

Ruins of the Mamisi or Temple of Isis at Denderah 195

Ceremonial Procession in an Egyptian Temple 199

Orientation of the Temple of Hathor at Denderah 202

Capital, with Masks of Hathor with Cow's Ears 216

The Cow of Isis 217

Hathor as a Cow 218

Hathor, "The Cow of the Western Hills" 219

The Annual Rise and Fall of the Nile 228

H?pi, the God of the Nile 229

Different Forms of Thoth 232

Scale of the Nilometer at R?da 235

The Island of R?da 236

Conditions of the Heliacal Rising of Sirius from 4000 B.C. to 600 A.D. 255

The Distribution of the 1st of Thoth among the Egyptian Months in the 1460-year Sothic Cycle 258

Julian Dates of the 1st of Thoth from 23 A.D. and 240 A.D. 267

The Month-Table at the Ramesseum 276

Black Granite Statue of Sekhet from the Temple of Mut at Thebes 288

The Goddess Taurt; the Goddess Serk-t or Selk-t 289

Nit ; Bast 290

Anuqa; Sati 291

Isis Nursing Horus 292

Isis, Osiris and Horus 297

A "Change of Cult" at Luxor 298

Curves showing the Declinations of Some of the Stars used by the Egyptian Astronomers at Different Epochs 307

The Temples at Tell el-Amarna 322

Apis 330

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