Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Pastophorus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

PASTOPH'ORUS (παστοφόρος). A member belonging to a certain order of the Egyptian priesthood, called pastophori, because they carried the images of their deities through the public streets in a small case or shrine (παστός, thalamus. Plin. H. N. viii. 71.), stopping at intervals to kneel down, while they displayed the image case before them, for the purpose of eliciting charitable donations from the multitude; all which particulars are apparent in the annexed illustration (Pastophorus/1.1) from an Egyptian statue, representing one of these mendicant priests. Apul. Met. xi. pp. 250. 260. 262.

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  Pastophorus/1.1