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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 370

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behind containsthe name of Amen Ra. Over Case 1 is a bronzefigure of Num-Ra, of whichthe annexed is a repre-sentation. NouF, NuM, or Cnou-PHis is a name given to aram-headed Divinity whoappears to have been thenational God of Ethiopiaand the Upper Country.Various ram-headed Dei-ties, some having… … EGYPTIAN ROOM. 353 principle of the stream ; to have been the sun, and to have henceborne the name of Nouf-ra, that is Nouf the sun ; and to have beenthe Creator of the Gods and of mankind, whom he is representedfabricating in a potters wheel or furnace—a coincidence of thecreation of man out of…

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