Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum . - tii^i]nTiir5iiz°fflr°T[fr:5ji- y if. BACK ETLEVATION (vSro^^zr. drcun-K. the TfA ^n2&. AMOHN-RA (HARSAPHES). 5 manner in wliicli these are cut, it may have been used as a stamp or seal. Tlie bronze objectsare apparently ex-votos, or Penates, and are almost all found in the remains of the houses ofthe inhabitants of It was purchased with the collection of Signor Anastasi, atLeghorn, in 1839. A similar bronze was in the collection of M. Mimaut. AMOUN-RA (HARSAPHES). It is more easy to define the functions of this god than the

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Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum . - tii^i]nTiir5iiz°fflr°T[fr:5ji- y if. BACK ETLEVATION (vSro^^zr. drcun-K. the TfA ^n2&. AMOHN-RA (HARSAPHES). 5 manner in wliicli these are cut, it may have been used as a stamp or seal. Tlie bronze objectsare apparently ex-votos, or Penates, and are almost all found in the remains of the houses ofthe inhabitants of It was purchased with the collection of Signor Anastasi, atLeghorn, in 1839. A similar bronze was in the collection of M. Mimaut. AMOUN-RA (HARSAPHES). It is more easy to define the functions of this god than the name he generally bears; andhe has been called Mendes, Horammon,^ Khem,* and Harsaphes.^ Mendes is not a trueEgyptian appellation. He is never called Horammon in the inscriptions; and althoughChemmo was the Egyptian Panopolis, it does not therefore follow that his name was Khein,which is not found in the hieroglyphics. The authority of Harsaphes is apparently turned onthe joint description of Plutarch^ and Stephanas Byzantinus. In most inscriptions he ap-pears as Amoun-ra, lord of the thr

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