Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum . ls. Cham]). 2VIon. t, i, pi, ixxix. 2. Cf. Wilk. IMan. & Cust. Ser. II. pi. xxxvi. A. Wilk. Man. & Cust. Ser. TI. pi. 6. Ibid. Rosel. M. R. clix. Adoration offeredto her by Trajan at Esnah. Demlera. * Ibid. pi. Ivi. Archa;ol. vol. xsix. p. 111. i« Hosel. M. da C. xlvii. Burton, Exceq). Hier. pi. Ivii. » Rosel. M. da C. xxix. 3. Ibid. xliv. or born of &c. Ibid. xxix. The text is here very , but the vase of fire is pro-bably an error for the square block ;for her being the mother of Moui,vide
Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum . ls. Cham]). 2VIon. t, i, pi, ixxix. 2. Cf. Wilk. IMan. & Cust. Ser. II. pi. xxxvi. A. Wilk. Man. & Cust. Ser. TI. pi. 6. Ibid. Rosel. M. R. clix. Adoration offeredto her by Trajan at Esnah. Demlera. * Ibid. pi. Ivi. Archa;ol. vol. xsix. p. 111. i« Hosel. M. da C. xlvii. Burton, Exceq). Hier. pi. Ivii. » Rosel. M. da C. xxix. 3. Ibid. xliv. or born of &c. Ibid. xxix. The text is here very , but the vase of fire is pro-bably an error for the square block ;for her being the mother of Moui,vide note Iti. Kosel. M. da C. liii. Wilk. Man. & Cust. Ser. II. pi. xxxvi. Ibid. pi. XXXV. A. Rosel. M. da C. xxii. Champ. Won. t. i. pi. vii. 3.« Ibid. pi. vi. a. Rosel. M. da C. xlviii. Here willi Har. Hat and Ohi-oer she forms the triad. Wilk. Man. & Cust. Ser. 11 jd. xxxvi. A 1. Ibid. pi. xxxvi. Kosel. M. da C. xlviii.» Tablet at Tourah. Rosel. M. da C. xxix. Ibid. liii.^ 1S3. PLATC It. f^ .ia ^\ IT K] @ m Brome (fiUlsizo) Fcrodai^ i full S7ze>, f Arundaif: <Ui- NOFEE-ATUOM. 21 of a collar. On her head is the decoration of a vulture cap, indicating that she is a mother-goddess. Above her head is part of a pylone or gate-way, supporting a pair of Iiorns in wiiichis placed the disk of tlie sun; in the interior of the body is tlie full form of Athor with anetwork dress, holding the koucoupha sceptre (gom) in one hand, and a symbol of life in theother. Before her is a small slab, on which is inscribed Athor, mistress of the heaoen. Tliewhole is based upon a kind of wheel. It is beautifully executed (on both sides the same),apparently under the XVIIIth dynasty, and was purchased of Mr. Saras in 1834. Fig. 35 represents an aegis, the head attire and hair of the goddess is curled in the twospiral locks of youth. She is cow-eared, alluding to her being the great cow of the west andengenderer of the sun; and on her head is a pylone o
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