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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 (1904)

British Museum. Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities · [London : The Museum] · leaf 162

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THE GODS OF EGYPT—SEB AND NUT. 137 sky goddess, who is depicted in the form of a woman and in that ofa cow. In the illustration here given she wears the disk, horns, and uraus, which are characteristic of several sky goddesses, and above the disk is the vessel of water, called in Egyptian “ Nu,’… … primeval god Nu, who was the personification of the great watery abyss which existed before all time, and was the source of all life and movement. Nu is depicted in the form of a bearded man, seated on a tank of water, and wearing the solar disk and the double plumes symbolic of air. Figures of Seb…

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