J. W. Thomas.
Dewsbury.
Footnote 3:[(return)]
For proof of the existence of Devil-worship, see Yakkun Nottanawa, a Cingalese poem, translated by John Callaway, printed for the Oriental Translation Fund: J. Murray, 1829.
I would beg to suggest to H. N. that if his friend Count Venua saw in the Hindoo temple at Muttra both the form of a perfect cross and of a "basilica, carried out with more correctness of order and symmetry than in Italy," he must have been so totally ignorant of early architecture as to make his observations quite worthless, since there is no more similitude between the cruciform church and the basilica than there is between two parallel lines (=) and two lines crossing each other at right angles (+).
"The precise shape of the cross on the Temple of Serapis" can only be inferred from the words of the historian cited, and the inference therefrom is strong that it was the crux ansata.
Eden Warwick
Birmingham.