Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum . o<lljqi[^ •V* ~ r^ W 311 ; 0--^ ?1 ? i*i t^ u 0 ?..,: eg. --A -^ I t: JACKAL—CAT. the erased cartouche to be that of Horns, and the word Amoun to have been left by the sup-posed Ethiopian monarch Amoun-Asro, of the XXVIth dynasty, to insert his own name;but the cartouche on the chest is certainly not that of the king Horus, and apparently ofAmenoph III. The erased cartouche may be of Amentuonkh, or one of the later monarchs. Thislion is from Mount Barkal, in Nubia, and presented to the Museum by Lord Prudhoe in Fig. 95.
Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum . o<lljqi[^ •V* ~ r^ W 311 ; 0--^ ?1 ? i*i t^ u 0 ?..,: eg. --A -^ I t: JACKAL—CAT. the erased cartouche to be that of Horns, and the word Amoun to have been left by the sup-posed Ethiopian monarch Amoun-Asro, of the XXVIth dynasty, to insert his own name;but the cartouche on the chest is certainly not that of the king Horus, and apparently ofAmenoph III. The erased cartouche may be of Amentuonkh, or one of the later monarchs. Thislion is from Mount Barkal, in Nubia, and presented to the Museum by Lord Prudhoe in Fig. 95. The anterior part of two lions, supporting on their backs the solar disk. Twolions in this attitude, or bearing the sun over the hill, occur in the early portions of the apparently took charge of the suns abode in the east, or his rising. Fig. 96 represents the fore-parts of a bull and lion conjoined ; but the meaning of this com-bination, frequent upon amulets, is unknown to me. JACKAL. The jackal, in hieroglyphics Ebasi,^ was sacred to Anoup or Anubis,* and principally wor-shipped at El Siout or Lycopol
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