Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum . IM-, mm M /l^%^. HAE-EM-HBAI (HORUS). 87 mother, ivho gives life, stahiUfy, and power; and tlie remainder of the cartouelic of theking. The group is rather fractured, but upon the whole executed with great vigour. Thereis another group in the collection at Turin, niuoh i-esenihling the present. It represents thedeity Amoun-ra seated upon a throne, with the monarch standing beside him, placing hishand on his shoulders, and has on it the prenomen and name of the king.^ A statue of themonarch, of smaller proportions, without its head. The
Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum . IM-, mm M /l^%^. HAE-EM-HBAI (HORUS). 87 mother, ivho gives life, stahiUfy, and power; and tlie remainder of the cartouelic of theking. The group is rather fractured, but upon the whole executed with great vigour. Thereis another group in the collection at Turin, niuoh i-esenihling the present. It represents thedeity Amoun-ra seated upon a throne, with the monarch standing beside him, placing hishand on his shoulders, and has on it the prenomen and name of the king.^ A statue of themonarch, of smaller proportions, without its head. The names and titles of the king are onlyread upon this group. Fig. 153, a fragment, representing the king standing, and, probably, holding an altar oflibations. He has worn the claft on his head, which is rather mutilated, and the skten, orshenti, round the loins. On the plinth behind is inscribed a perijendicular line of hieroglyphics: the living gracious god mahing illustrations [puriJications\ to his father Amoun-ra, the king of the upper and loiver worlds, the sun, the
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