Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum . FreujirjKi of a- Q U E C ^ rig f ^ Fr tfL-XUrU SWne.} fU Tlgwt ffu TUriAeA Smne) * JrtmJaix, (/ei,* Ik (i^ (UJ l£ d K] A ra ® IF H CM A 11=11 L^IJ (c: iiij L-U ^ S, A QUEEN, AND OTHER FEMALES. Fig. 172 is the upper part of a small colossus of an Egyptian queen. Her liead-tlress hasbeen covered with the nreou, or vulture, emblem of royal maternity, and ouro, or urasus, that ofroyalty. Her hair is curled in the peculiar spiral locks of the goddess Athor, the EgyptianVenus. Round her neck is a collar. This statue is evidently one of
Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum . FreujirjKi of a- Q U E C ^ rig f ^ Fr tfL-XUrU SWne.} fU Tlgwt ffu TUriAeA Smne) * JrtmJaix, (/ei,* Ik (i^ (UJ l£ d K] A ra ® IF H CM A 11=11 L^IJ (c: iiij L-U ^ S, A QUEEN, AND OTHER FEMALES. Fig. 172 is the upper part of a small colossus of an Egyptian queen. Her liead-tlress hasbeen covered with the nreou, or vulture, emblem of royal maternity, and ouro, or urasus, that ofroyalty. Her hair is curled in the peculiar spiral locks of the goddess Athor, the EgyptianVenus. Round her neck is a collar. This statue is evidently one of the best period ofEgyptian art, and must be referred to the XVIIIth dynasty, not improbably Meiennuiut-Nofre-areh, or Esi-nofre, one of the queens of Ramesses III. It is in a white numnmlite kind ofstone, but the surface is unfortunately much honeycombed, and there is no inscription on theplinth behind to enable any decision to be arrived at relative to the person it was intended torepresent. It came with Mr. Salts Collection, acquired in 1821, where it is merely mentione
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