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The ruins of Sais lie near Sâ el Hagar, about half a mile east of the Rosetta Nile. Neith, ‘the mother of the sun,’ who was especially worshipped at Sais, was identified with Athena; like her, she has for emblems (on the coins of the Saitic nome) an owl on her right hand and a lance in her left. Her worship spread widely under the twenty-sixth dynasty, when Sais was the capital of Egypt. In her attributes and her representation on the monuments she is another form of Isis; hence her feast, here described by H., is a part of the mourning for Osiris (like that at Busiris, c. 61).

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