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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 170

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OSIRIS, THE FOUR CHILDREN OF HORUS. 145 balmment were made in the forms of the heads of the gods who guarded them. ‘Examples of figures of the gods of the company of Osiris are :— No. 48. Bronze Osiris, bearded, and wearing the Atef crown, 2.¢., the crown of the South, with plumes, and holding the… … Anubis standing by the bier of the dead. No. 49. Bronze Osiris, wearing the déef crown with horns, pendent urei with disks, etc.; the eyes are inlaid with gold. [No. 34,868. ] No. 50. Bronze seated figure of “Osiris the Moon,” wearing the crescent moon and lunar disk on his head. [No. 738.] No. 51.…

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