Note 889 — Chapter XXX · NO ROD, ALTHOUGH CLOSE INTERCOURSE WITH EGYPT

Lest Forlong’s sentence (Rivers of Life (London, 1883), II. 89), “A beautiful Assyrian cylinder exhibits the worship of the Fish God; there we see the mitred Man-God with Rod and basket,” etc., be quoted in opposition, I would point out that this so-called Rod is merely a cut sapling, like the one in the hands of Heracles, but without a sign of any line, which in the Greek vase in the British Museum is obviously attached. Cf. Élite des monuments Céramographiques, vol. III., Plate I.