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Title: Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum
Year: 1842 (1840s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities Arundale, F. (Francis), 1807-1853 Bonomi, Joseph Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885
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Publisher: London: J. Weale
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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r, from Mr. Burtons collection (lot 24).There is a bronze figure, of indilierent execution, in the collection. THEBAN TRIAD. This jwrcelain object (fig. 10) represents the three deities of the triad^ united, surmountedby liie head of an uncertain deity. Khons is hawk-headed. The inscription behind contains Amuun-ia, lord of the luurld, regidalor of the. guds. Champ. Paiitli. Etj.• Mm. ch. X. p. 8. Wilkinson, Mat. Hicr. Ibid. Man. *c Gust. Ser. II. pi. xlvi.* Cliaiiip, Gr. K(^. Lepaius, Sur IAlph. p. K). His name may be the Goptic wordKons — power, force. * iiieliuwk-headed Horusissaid.atOm- bos, to illuminate the world with tlie splendour of bis eyes.—Champ. Mou. Wilkinson, Man. & Oust. Ser. II. pi. xlvi. 13.» Tablet at Tourah. Statue in )5ritisli Museum, 96. Kosel. M. U. cxlvi. Rosel. loc. cit. Champ. Pantb. Ejf. 11 (ter.). Rosel. M. H. cxlii. Gliumii. Pantb. Kg. Door of Groat Uoom in Ramesciou.— MS. of M. Uonomi. Purchased with the Auastasi CoUoo- tion in 1839. purt. 3.
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THETHreAN l^l^P NOUF, OR NOUM. In the account of the statues of Araouii, it lias been mentioned tliat he was rarelyrepresented with the head of a ram ; the exceptions which occur being rather the type ofthe god Nouf, a deity whose functions were very different. Ascending the Nile, andpassing into Ethiopia, the ram-headed deity appears to be the principal one of the country ;and his worship and temples were established at the Cataracts, Syene, Elephantina, Snem,^Beghe, Beit Oually, and Meroe. A small obelisk, dedicated to him by Amenophis II. wasfound at Elephantina, and presented to Lord Prudhoe by the Pacha. He was the Ammonof the oracle in the desert. Various ram-headed deities, some having other names, appearin different tem))les; but they were probably all modifications of the great god, and calledin the ex-votos and inscriptions, Kneph, Chenubis, Chnebis, Chnubis, Chnemis, Chnumis, orChnoumis. His hieroglyphical name (a water-vase and owl, or a water-vase and goat) readsNM or NB*

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