This deity is said to gather “sacred writings” scattered by Typhon in an essay from the fifth volume of Plutarch’s Moralia. Depictions of a Roman seafarers’ festival named for this deity’s “vessel,” or “Navigium,” appear in a temple at Pompeii, far from her cult center in Philae. The name by which this deity was worshipped in Greece may allude to her throne headdress. This deity’s namesake knot, the tyet, was sometimes buried as an amulet with mummies. Lucius joins a cult to this deity in Apuleius’s The Golden Ass. In an ancient set of lamentations, this deity and her sister, Nephthys, chant for her husband’s resurrection. For 10 points, name this Egyptian goddess of magic who was often worshipped in a triad with her son, Horus, and husband, Osiris. ■END■
ANSWER: Isis [or Aset; accept knot of Isis or girdle of Isis; accept vessel of Isis or Navigium Isidis] (The essay in the first line is “On Isis and Osiris.”)
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