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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 398

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for amulets is that of the scarabaeus,but some occur with the form of animals—as hedgehogs and human-headed dogs (vide Cases 94-96). They bear on their bases thefigures of Deities, Sacred animals, names of Kings, short inscrip-tions, and other symbols or hieroglyphics. The most remarkablescarabaei… … 3 a< aa S CO 3CO EGYPTIAN ROOM. 381 that of Ra-men-ka {Mencheres) ; 3923 25, that of Pepi (Apapjn/s) ;3927, Osortasen I., or Sesortascn I. :—the cylinders, 3928, withthe prrenomen of Sesortasen II. ; 3926, Sesortascn III.; 3930,with the prasnomen of Amenemha III. ; 3933, with the pr?e-nonaen of…

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