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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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figure of Anpu or Anubis,jackal-headed, and wearing the crowns of the South andNorth. (No. 22,923.) No. J/. Bronze standing figure of Anubis. (No. 29,197.) No. /S. Bronze figure of Anubis with the attributes ofHorus. Roman period. (No. 11,513.) ANUBIS, CHILDREN OF IIORUS, ETC. 149 Xo. 79. Bronze figure of Anubis. Roman period. (No. 11,529.) No. 80. Bronze figure of Anubis with the attributes ofPtah-Seker-Asar, Horus, etc. (No. 22,930.) Of theFour Child-ren of Horus a large num-ber of porce-lain figureswill be foundon the secondgroup ofshelves inWall - Cases127 and 128 ;these werenot worn aspendants likethe figures ofthe othergods, butwere sewnto the swath-ings of mum-mies, and aregenerallyfound lyingover thebreasts of thedead. In Wall-Case 125 areexhibited anumber ofbronze figures of some of the great goddesses of Egypt. First amongthese comes Hathor, who was worshipped in pre-dynastictimes under the form of a cow ; her name in Egyptianis Het-Hert, and means the house of Horus, and as
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Hathor, or a goddess of the dead, looking forthfrom the necropolis in the Theban hills. 150 THIRD El IYP I I \\ Ri »0M WALL CASE 125. such she is the personification of that portion oi tin-sky where Horus was born, /.<■., oi the place <»! sunrise. The worship of the Cow god-dess Hathor was universal inEgypt, and in course of timeher attributes became miin those of almost everyviv.it local goddess throughoutthe country. One of her prin-cipal forms is that shown inthe accompanying illustration(No. (), where she appears inthe form ofawoman,and holdsthe sceptre of the goddessesof Upper Egypt. On her headis the head-dress of Mut,the wife ofA m e n - R a,the king ofthe gods, andthis is sur-mounted bythe horns ofthe Cow ofI lathor, thesolar disk,which indicates her relation to Horus,and the feather of the goddess Maat.In illustration No. 2 the goddess ap-pears both in the form of a cow and inthat of a woman ; the object here repre-sented is a portion of the mendt amulet,and is insc

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