ity of nature.
23. Andrews 1994:66-67 suggests that the fecundity associated with baboons often lead to images of them been used as ‘sexual aids’.
24. Germond 2005:113-115.
25. Hart 1986:200-201.
26. Wilkinson 1994:195-196 explains how some gestures are often very similar, or even exactly the same, but to the ancient Egyptians their meanings were very different.
27. See the decoration on the X2000 from University of Birmingham Archaeology Collection, a coffin lid dated to approximately 550BCE which shows Isis adopting the same gesture as displayed on ECM1478.
28. See also Petrie 1972: pl.LIII.
29. Translated by Lichtheim 1976:214-223.
30. Lichtheim 1976:216.
31. Gardiner 1927:72-73.
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