. 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 . Ta-urt (Thoueris). [58 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM—WALL-CAS] i * |. and the union of Upper and Lower Egypt is indicatedby this ceremn\. Mi -. [09 Bronze standing figure of the I toi odilSebek, wearing on his head a pair of I).mis, a solar diskwith a uraeus, and a pair of plumes. | No. 12,924.]. The god of the South Nil< Ill god
. 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 . Ta-urt (Thoueris). [58 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM—WALL-CAS] i * |. and the union of Upper and Lower Egypt is indicatedby this ceremn\. Mi -. [09 Bronze standing figure of the I toi odilSebek, wearing on his head a pair of I).mis, a solar diskwith a uraeus, and a pair of plumes. | No. 12,924.]. The god of the South Nil< Ill god of the North Nile. Sebek, the Souchos of the Greeks, was at a very earlyperiod identified with that form of the Sun-god Ra who was held to be the son of Neith, and with Set the murdererof Osiris. In some parts of Egypt crocodiles were huntedand killed as noxious beasts, but at Thebes and near they were accounted sacred, and their devotees putcrystal and gold earrings in their ens, and bracelets ontheir fore-paws. No. no. Bronze standing figure of the god Maahes,with the head of a lion. The god usually wears the crown MAAHES, AN-HER, AMSU OR MIN. 159 of the South, to which arc attached the two feathers ; he isgenerally considered to be a form of the god Shu. [No. 11,115.] No. if 1. Portion of a bronzestanding figure of Maahes, with crownimperfect. [No. 12,543.] Nos. 112, 113. Porcelain figuresof Maahes. [Nos. 394, 395.] No. 114. Bronze standing figureof An-her, the Onouris of the Greeks.[No. 36,311.] An-her was the god of the under-world
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