His seat was placed on a platform, magnificently decorated with bunches and garlands of flowers, and covered with hangings of purple and gold brocade, which concealed the priests who bore it along with a slow and even pace.
As soon as the God had been placed on board his barge, Bent-Anat and her companions rose from their knees.
Then came some priests, who carried a box with the sacred evergreen tree of Amon; and when a fresh outburst of music fell on her ear, and a cloud of incense was wafted up to her, Bent-Anat said: "Now my father should be coming." "And you," cried Rameri, "and close behind, Nefert's husband, Mena, with the guards.

Uncle Ani comes on foot.

How strangely he has dressed himself like a sphinx hind-part before!" "How so ?" asked Nefert.
"A sphinx," said Rameri laughing, it has the body of a lion, and the head of a man, [There were no female sphinxes in Egypt.

The sphinx was called Neb, i.e., the lord.

The lion-couchant had either a man's or a rams head.] and my uncle has a peaceful priest's robe, and on his head the helmet of a warrior." "If the king were here, the distributor of life," said Nefert, "you would not be missing from among his supporters." "No indeed!" replied the prince, "and the whole thing is altogether different when my father is here.