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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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androsphinx, with an inverted lotus on its head. Similar sphinxes wererepresented at the corners of Roman cippi and altars.- A similar one is engraved, Wilk. Man.and Cust. Ser. II. vol. ii. p. 230. - Notvfithstanding the additional space,the variety of subjects treated on inthis number would not admit of morethan a mere sketch of the sacredanimals illustrated bv the national collection. Those, however, who de-sire fuller details of the animal wor-ship, the embalming of these sacredliving emblems, Sec, can consultPassalacqua, Cat. pp. 148, 150, 231 ;Pettigrews (T. J.) History of Egvp-tian Mummies, pp. 148, 150, 169, 226, 231, 236 ; Wilkinsons Mannersand Customs, Ser. II. vol. ii. pp. 90-269. The plan of the present worklimiting its considerations to sourcespurely Egyptian ; and theotherpoints,as to burial, iXc, will come under thehead of Mummies. END OF P.-VRT I. LONDON: PaiNTED BY UOYES AND DARCLAS, CASTLE liXBEET, LEICESIEB SOCABE. i(:ky*C^^y^:kif^i<Tki^i<ri^i<i<^y< x
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PART II.EGYPTIAN ART. H I STO RICALI LLU STRATIONS. L O N DO h u b LI c_, H L D fi r J . »V t> L r 4 6 HIGH HOLBORn HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATIONS. TABLET OF ABYDOS. The term Tablet of Abydos has been applied to an inscription discovered on the sidewall of a small building, partly executed in the rock, at a distance from the principal pile atAbydos, the present El Arabat Mad Founah, 26° 10 north latitude, 32° 5 east longitude. It wasfirst discovered by Mr. J. W. Bankes in 1818, in an excavation undertaken by him for thepurpose of obtaining an accurate ground-plan of the extensive ruins of Abydos, and clearedout of the sand which concealed it. M. Caillaud^ subsequently found it in 1822, and senta drawing of it to M. Champollion, who published an engraving of it in his second Letter toM. le Due de Blacas relative to Egyptian History. According to this latter traveller it was cuton the right-hand lateral wall as you enter a small monument partly hollowed in the rock, at ashort distance f

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