The evil eye. An account of this ancient and wide spread superstition

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act of nursing him (Fig. 70, from Wilkinson, iii.
112), one of the commonest forms in which she is
represented, and remembering, too, that in the use
of the same symbols, those of the crescent and horns,
Fig. 70. Fig. 71. 3in„
/she was succeeded by Artemis and Diana, one cannot
but be struck with the wonderful similarity between
her and the present-day Madonna and Child.
In one of the rock chambers at Silsilis on the
Nile, is a relief of Isis suckling Horus, said^^° to be
"one of the most perfect specimens of Egyptian
sculpture at its best period." It is treated in such a
manner, and without the usual head ornaments, that
one would be ready to believe the old Italian
painters Lippi and Botticelli must have gone there,
of Isis. He also later refers to the horns upon the head of Moses : " qui a
congressu Domini Dei Exercituum faciem cornutam referebat."
310 M\ina.y's Handbook for Egypt, i88S, p. 517.
310a Y\g. 71 is from an ancient bronze in possession of the author.
Similar ones are common in most Egyptian museums.