Graham,


> Hehe Wilkinson is not Budge. I'm sure he has a
> point, and a good one at that.


Yes, he has. He suggests that the rosette customarily seen as a shoulder ornament on lions is.... Regulus. He makes a good case of it, actually. Besides, in the NK tombs the rosettes can be identified as stars. As in Tut's linen pall.


>
> Seshat and Nephthys are also linked to counting
> and measuring. Did you see the root for the word
> Pomegranate rmn. Perhaps someone can point out how
> its double has nothing to do with the diagonal of
> a 2x1 rectangle.


I know (looking at my books, not by heart, mind you) that pomegranate in Eygyptian is jnhmn, but I don't know how that becomes remen.







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