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| | p. a. piccione, history 270, "victory of horus," prologue |
 | | Description: The lector priest (not depicted) introduces the principal characters: the two falcon-headed deities, Horus Lord of Behdet, and Horus Lord of Mesen (not depicted); Isis, their mother; the ibis-headed god, Thoth; the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Ptolemy IX ; and his mother, Queen Cleopatra III (not depicted). |
 | | Horus of Behdet wears the red and white Double Crown, a shendyt-kilt, lion's tail, and white T-shirt-like blouse. |
 | | Isis wears her typical crown of sun disk and cow's horns (the horned disk) over a cap in the form of a vulture's body set on a wig-cover with long vertical lappets. |
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