forasmuch as the antient _Egyptians_ were wont to place _Sphinx_’s about their _Sepulchres_, and _Pliny_ moreover witnesses, that an entire _Pyramid_ was built in _Egypt_ of that shape, whom you may consult more at large, _Lib._ 36. _cap._ 12. The tenth _Lamp_ has two Wieks, [Sidenote: _Lamp_ of the _Moon_.] and may either be hung up or set upon its Foot: From the form of a Crescent at the other extremity or handle, it is thought to have been dedicated to the Moon, or else to have burn’d in the Sepulchre of some Person of Rank, as a _Symbol_ of his Nobility, of which this was an _Hieroglyphic_, and therefore they antiently wore one in their Shoes, _&c._ to distinguish them from inferior Persons, and perhaps might also Sup by a _Lamp_ made in that form in token of their Quality and Grandure. As this had two, so the following _Lamp_ at Figure eleven had four Wieks or Lights, [Sidenote: _Lamp_ with four _Lights_.] being, as _Nardius_ tells us, brought out of _Egypt_, with some _Mummies_, to the Grand Duke of _Tuscany_, by which, says _Kircher_, nothing seems more to be meant than the Worship of those Deities which went before the four Seasons of the Year; for seeing the Prosperity of the whole Republic depended on the Plenty of those Things, to which the abovesaid Deities were distributed, in the Circle of the four Seasons of the Year, they aptly apply’d the _Lamp_ with four Lights to complete these mysterious Ceremonies; for the _Egyptians_ erected their _Lamps_ with so many Lights as the number of that Deity, consecrated to any one, contain’d of Unities. [Sidenote: _Lamp_ with an _Ox’s_ Head.] The _Lamp_ at Figure the twelfth, with the Head of an Ox, which as _Valerianus_, Lib. 3. _Hierogl._ plainly demonstrates to be the _Symbol_ of the Earth, was Sepulchral and depicted Hieroglyphically, to show that the Body of Man was resolv’d into Earth from whence it was first form’d. [Sidenote: _Lamp_ of a wing’d _Sphinx_.] Figure the thirteenth is a _Lamp_ on whose Superficies a wing’d _Sphinx_ grav’d or wrought, which as it was among the _Egyptians_ the _Symbol_ of secret Wisdom, so it denotes that this _Lamp_ was plac’d in the Sepulchre of some Learned Man, whose Sayings were wont to be Ænigmatical, and were represented by the Image of a _Sphinx_; or perhaps more particularly to denote the _Depositum_ of some Noble Poet; for it is the property of a Poet, under the cover of a Fable, to contain the mysterious Secrets of Divine Matters, and to enlighten the hidden Senses of honest Actions, that they may be imitated. [Sidenote: _Lamp_ with two beaked _Ships_.] The next _Lamp_ at Figure the fourtenth was purchas’d of the _Arabians_, by that excellent Physician _John Baptista Bonagente Vicentinus_, who saw them take it out of one of the Caves of the Mummies near the _Pyramids_, and after his Death _Fr. Sanctus a Plebe Sacci_ bought it out of his Collection at _Cairo_, and brought it to _Padua_, where he presented it to the most