Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum . i. e. thefrog.^ It was employed in the inscriptions, in its tadpole orperfect state, to signify innumerable, and frequently placed at the base of the notched palm-branch of time, on a signet, indication of chaos. I have even found it after the name of anindividual. Weights were made of its shape. Fig. is well executed in basalt, and has been attached to a necklace. • Lepsius, J^ettre i. M. Rosellini, p. 41.^ Champ. Gr. Eg. p. 120. ^ Numismatic Chronicle, vol. ii. p. 91. * Lepsius, das Todten Buch, &c. pi. xvi. 30-32. Numismatic Ch
Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum . i. e. thefrog.^ It was employed in the inscriptions, in its tadpole orperfect state, to signify innumerable, and frequently placed at the base of the notched palm-branch of time, on a signet, indication of chaos. I have even found it after the name of anindividual. Weights were made of its shape. Fig. is well executed in basalt, and has been attached to a necklace. • Lepsius, J^ettre i. M. Rosellini, p. 41.^ Champ. Gr. Eg. p. 120. ^ Numismatic Chronicle, vol. ii. p. 91. * Lepsius, das Todten Buch, &c. pi. xvi. 30-32. Numismatic Chronicle, loc. cit. andp. 98. «a. Pettigrews (T. J.) History ofEgyptian iVIummies, -J-to. Lond. 1824,p. 218. Passalacqua, Cat. 422-425,p. 236. Champ. Mon. t. i. pi. Ixxxix. « Cr. Wilk. loc. cit. Ser. II. p. 247, , 3, 4. The male frog god is called ka. father of the fathers if the resembles the epithets of Noum.(vid. Noum.) The female goddesswas called Hyk, mistress of Hosor,of which Pasht and Athor were mis-tresses. PLATE 23 Kg 123.
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