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Handbook to the antiquities in the British Museum : being a description of the remains of Greek, Assyrian, Egyptian and Etruscan art preserved there, with numerous illustrations (1851)

Vaux, W. S. W. (William Sandys Wright), 1818-1885 · London : Murray · leaf 333

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his class.The Museum possesses a considerable number of representationsof this Deity, who occurs very frequently on ancient Egyptianworks, such as the Nos. 37, 41, 45, 49, 57, 60, 62, 63, 65, 68-9,71-2, 76-7, 79, 80, 84, 87-9, 95. There is generally a great re-semblance between them, and it is… … No. 63. 316 EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES. One of the best preserved of seven similar ones is No. 76. It iscarved in dark granite, and represents the Goddess standing, holdingin her loft hand the lotus sceptre, and in her right the sacred Tau, orSyndjol of Life. The worknuuiship is of the age of Amenoph…

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