. A common noun signifying lamp, but the determinative here shows that a heavenly body is meant. The sun is here spoken of exactly in the same poetical way as when Antigone (879) speaks of τόδε λαμπάδος ἱερὸν ὄμμα, or Virgil of the Phœboea lampas.

[2.] The later recension speaks of “the Lamp in Annu and the Hammemit in Cherāba.”[Cherāba.”] This reading is already found in a few of the Theban texts. The royal sarcophagus 32 of the British Museum gives the important variant

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