A catalogue of the Egyptian antiquities in the possession of F.G. Hilton Price (1897)
Price, F. G. Hilton (Frederick George Hilton), 1842-1909 · London : Bernard Quaritch · leaf 341
n its head. Bull, I ^ 5^55 ^^P °^ Apis, sacred to and emblematical of the god Ptah. Theprincipal seat of its worship was at Memphis. It was at Sakkara that M. Mariettediscovered the necropolis of the sacred bulls, which he called the Serapeum. In it hediscovered sixty-four sarcophagi of enormous… … SACRED ANIMALS. 3 the disk of the sun and the uraeus between its horns, the vulture with outspreadwings is engraved upon its shoulders and its rump, with a housing on the centre ofthe body. Figures also occur in steatite and faience. 2603. Apis Bull, walking, wearing the disk with ur:eus between…
Price, F. G. Hilton (Frederick George Hilton), 1842-1909 · Glassware, Ancient -- Egypt · Egypt -- Antiquities
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