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Title: A hand-book to the antiquities in the grounds and museum of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Wellbeloved, Charles, 1769-1858 Yorkshire Philosophical Society
Subjects: Yorkshire (England) -- Antiquities
Publisher: York, J. Sampson
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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, as a sign of inauguration, on the head of theking. The central line of hieroglyphics records that Amen-enthituot had erected two obelisks before the gate of Ammon.*The sculptures in the eight compartments besides the centralline represent the god Amnion Ra receiving various offerings;in the uppermost he is embracing the sovereign. The otherthree sides of the obelisk are covered with sculptures andinscriptions similar to this.—George Goldie, M.D. No. V. A cast of the famous black obelisk from Nimroud,discovered by Mr. Layard, and now in the British Museum.—Rev. J. Keurick, 1870. No. VI. The mortar of the Infirmary of the Abbey of St.Mary. It is of bell-metal, weight seventy-six pounds, andbears the following inscription : On the upper rim,— The lower+jJU. fflKfS. «L £©TOP?©&p. fft£. * Bosellini Mon. Stor. 3, 1, 152. t Mortarium Sancti Johannis Evangelists; de Infirmaria Beata? Maria; Ebor.Frater Willielmus de Touthorp (a village near York) me fecit, Ao. D. MCCCV1II 143
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Of the history of this beautiful specimen of medieval tttiduring nearly two centuries after the dissolution of the Abbey,nothing is known. The earliest notice we have of it occurs inan anonymous letter to Gent, published by him in his Historyof Hull, and dated 1734 ; from which it appears that, afterhaving been long in the possession of the Fairfax family, ithad passed into the hands of Mr. Smith, a bell-founder inYork, by whom it had been sold to Mr. A. Addington. in thecustody of whose sod, a confectioner ^Prake says—Eboraeuni,p. 588—a perfumer) in the Minster Yard, it was seen by thewriter of the letter. Gongh, in the translation of CamdensBritannia, published in 1789. says. (vol. iii. p. 66,) it waslately in the hands of an apothecary at Selby ; after whosedeath all traces of it were lost. In the year 1811. it wasdiscovered by Mr. Rudder, a bell-founder at Birmingham,amidst a large quantity of old metal, which he had probablypurchased from York or the neighbourhood. Unwilling

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