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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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or Field of Peace. The Egyptianhoped that, through the sufferings anddeath of Osiris, his body might rise againin a transformed, glorified, and incor-ruptible shape, and the devotee appealedin prayer for eternal life to him who hadconquered death and had become theking of the underworld through hisvictory and prayer. For illustrations offigures of Osiris and Isis, and of thejudgment scene, see Standard Cases F.and G. Isis, the sister and wife of Osiris, is body tf Osiris was hidden ., 1 • 1 r r by, SIS> wltn tne attri~ usually represented in the iorm 01 a butesofOsiris.woman, who wears on her head the thronefj, the phonetic value of which, Ast, gives her name.The legends about the goddess state that on certainoccasions she took upon herself the form of a bird, as, forexample, when she hovered over her husbands dead body,and when she escaped from her enemies ; in the Book ofthe Dead she once appears as a hawk and once as a serpent.She is commonly called the lady of words of power,
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The Tet, or symbol of thee trunk in which the i i ! rHIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM WALL-CASES 127-) )0. ind the mother of the god, and her incantations, whichshe had learned from Thoth, were de< lared to be Irresistible.When her son Horus was stung to death by .1 scorpion,the appeal for help which she add re 1 <l to the sun god Rawas so effective, that he stopped in his course, and sentThoth to teach her the words which, if properly recited,would restore 1 loins to life. When Isis had made use of

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