[62] Op. cit. I. 446; the inscription is numbered cxxvii. 1, in vol. II.
[63] A. M. Blackman, in Hastings’ ERE, X. 294 b; see also the same writer’s The Rock Tombs of Meir, I. 22 ff., plate II (1914-15).
[64] Erman, Aegypten and aegyptisches Leben im Alterthum, I. 335 f. (1885).
[65] Wiedemann, Die Religion der alten Ägypter, p. 87 (1890).
[66] ERE, XII. 780 a, 781 b; see also the same writer in the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, VII. 22.
[67] The Golden Ass, XI. 8-17 (the date of Apuleius is the second half of the second century A.D.); see also Herodotus, II. 61 ff.
[68] II. 58-60.
[69] Der Opfertanz des ägyptischen Königs, pp. 105 ff. (1912); that the running step was really a ritual dance is shown on pp. 109-119.
[70] Erman, op. cit. I. 299-337; and see further generally, Champollion, Monuments de l’Égypte (1844); Lepsius, Denkmäler ... (1897 ...); cp. Reinach, Orpheus, p. 42 (1909). As to the sacred dancing among the Therapeutae, of later times, see Philo, De Vita Contemplativa, pp. 127-129 in F. C. Conybeare’s edition (1895).
[71] Its home was Sparta; it was introduced into Athens in the sixth century B.C. in the time of Pisistratus; ultimately it became a mere war game.