A guide to the third and fourth Egyptian rooms - predynastic antiquites, mummied birds and animals, portrait statues, figures of gods, tools, implements and weapons, scarabs, amulets, jewellery, and (14728255626)

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Title: A guide to the third and fourth Egyptian rooms : predynastic antiquites, mummied birds and animals, portrait statues, figures of gods, tools, implements and weapons, scarabs, amulets, jewellery, and other objects connected with the funeral rites of the ancient Egyptians

Year: 1904 (1900s)

Authors: British Museum. Dept. of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934 Hall, H. R. (Harry Reginald), 1873-1930

Subjects: British Museum. Dept. of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Egypt Egypt -- Antiquities Catalogs

Publisher: (London) : Printed by order of the Trustees

Contributing Library: New York University, Institute of Fine Arts Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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003.) Bronze seated figure of Amen-Ra, ram- (No. 11,233.) Bronze shrine containing a seated figure ofAmcn-Ra. This object was a votive offering made byShabataka, a king of Kgypt of the XXVth dynasty, aboutb.c. 650. (No. 11,013.) No. 124. Wooden plaque inscribed with figures of Amen-Ra, king of the gods, and Ptah, the begetter ofthe gods; between them is the cartouche of Seti II. Mer-en-Ptah Co j g j () I) => 1, a king of Egypt, B.C. 1300. (No. 38.)No. 125. Bronze seatedfigure of Amen-Heru-pa-khart(Amen-Harpocrates). (No. 34,937-)No. 126. Bronze seatedfigure of Mut. (No. 58.) No. 127. Bronze standingfigure of Mut. (No. 11,022.) Nos. 128, 129. Two porce-lain figures of the goddess Mutin the character of Isis sucklingHorus. (Nos. 11,158, I3.5I9-) No. 130. Bronze figure ofKhonsu, hawk-headed. (No. 87.) No. 131. Gold figure ofKhonsu, with lunar crescent anddisk. (No. 86.) Nos. 132, 133. Bronzefigures of Khonsu, wearing thetriple crown and attributes of Harpocrates. (Nos. 11,045, 354I7-)

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Khnemu. KHNEMU, THE CREATOR. 163 No. 134. Bronze figure of Khonsu, holding the Utchat^^ of the moon. (No. 12,587.) No. 135. Bronze figure of Khonsu, wearing the crown,horns, etc., of Osiris. (No. 583.) In Wall-Case 122 are exhibited figures of the gods ofthe triad of Elephantine, which consisted of Khnemu,Satet, and Anqet. Khnemu was probably a god of thepre-dynastic Egyptians; he is usually depicted in theform of a man, with the head of a flat-horned ram, ananimal which appears to have been introduced intoEgypt from the East, and which is not represented onthe monuments after the period of the Xllth dynasty.Above his horns is often seen the jug Pj, the phoneticvalue of which, Khnemu, forms the gods name. Thename Khnemu means the moulder,and he is described as the builder of men, the maker of the gods, the Father who was in the beginning, the creator of the things which are, and of the things which shall be, the source of all that existeth, Father of fathers, Mother of mothers, the lo

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