Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum . the Payne Knight Collection. Among the Egyptians theeat was an animal sacred to the Sun and Bubastis; and in the Ritual the cat of the sun lays holdof the reptile or apoph,* while certain inscriptions mention the cat devouring the abominablerat^^ apparently alluding to the antagonist principles of the sun and night — of good and evil. Cliiimp. Gr. E(,. p. 123. MVilk. Man. & Cust. Ser. II. |il. li. pt. 3. Purchased of denlers.* Iliisis fngriived in Lib. of Ent. Know. Jiiit. JIus. Egypt. Antiq. 8vo. Loud. 1836, p. are the feut
Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum . the Payne Knight Collection. Among the Egyptians theeat was an animal sacred to the Sun and Bubastis; and in the Ritual the cat of the sun lays holdof the reptile or apoph,* while certain inscriptions mention the cat devouring the abominablerat^^ apparently alluding to the antagonist principles of the sun and night — of good and evil. Cliiimp. Gr. E(,. p. 123. MVilk. Man. & Cust. Ser. II. |il. li. pt. 3. Purchased of denlers.* Iliisis fngriived in Lib. of Ent. Know. Jiiit. JIus. Egypt. Antiq. 8vo. Loud. 1836, p. are the feut of a uimilar statue with a plinth and inscription in the Museum. D6sc. de IEg. torn. iii. p. 48. Le- normant, Mus. des Ant. Eg. pi. six. No. .?>. This statue formod part of the first collection purchased of Mr. Salt, 1821. Eg. Sal. No. 80. ? Purchased of a private dealer, 1837.» Champ. Ur. Eg. p. 124.» Ibid. p. 123. Pap. Burton, No. Ritual published by Cadet and Von of tomb, time ofApries. Anastasi
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