ABSTRACT
THE pieces of information that I have gathered together in this article indicate, I think, that scholars l have hitherto laid too much stress upon the inferiority of the part played by women in the worship of Egyptian divinities. That they have done so is doubtless due in large measure to the well-kno,vn and oft-quoted assertion of Herodotus, ii, §35 : lpiiTat 'Yuv~
~€V ovoej.LLa oVTe epuevoc; Beou OVT€ B7JA.€7J c;, avopec; Of rn-avTwv Te Kat rn-au€WV "No wornan exeTcises the pTiestly ofji,ce either jor 0, god or (t goddess, but Jnen in nll cases."
