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No confirmation is found on the monuments for this feast at Bubastis; but there was a similar one for five days, in the month Thoth, at Denderah, the details of which correspond closely to the description here.

The κρόταλα and flutes are genuine Egyptian instruments; κρόταλα=‘rattles’; others translate ‘cymbals’; H. does not mention the σεῖστρον, which is the most common of all. Clapping of hands, to mark time, was as common in ancient as it is in modern Egypt.

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