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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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her paws on a peculiar symbol, is calledShpou or Shoup. Sir Gardner AVilkinson would make her Typhon, reading her name Typho ;but the initial symbol is almost restricted to the round Sh.^ Her titles are, mother of the fields Coffin rjf Hai-sont-iotf, Brit. Mus.Case Q. Transactions, &c. loc. cit. Burton, Exc. Ilier. pi. lix. Cf. Views of Egypt by J. Bossi, pub-lislied by E. J. Cooper, 4to. Lond.I wo are found togetlier in one pro-jection, and in Belzonis tomb she issurmounted by a crocodile. Four of the stars of the Great Bear appear inher body. Mus. Ch. .\. p. 26. Cf. Gram. Eg. p.134, 2. 1 suppose from the hippopo-tamic goddess occurring in the titlesof Netpe. Wilk. Man. & Gust. Ser.II. pi. x.\xii. It is here tlie determinative of Netpe,the producer of the gods or stars. Champ. Gr. Eg. p. 83. Ebou, theivory animal, the name ai>plied tothe elephant, also meant hippopo-tamus. Champ. Mon. xcix. 3. For the rule of the Faragogic on, vid.Atliom. » Champ. Gr. Eg. p. 41, No. 1.17.
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NAHAB-KA ANOUP OR ANUBIS. 43 of the loh-cn-ron,^ resident in the abode of the bier- (gal). Tlie fields of the loh-eii-rou, some-times called the fields of the sun, surrounded by the mystic Nile, were those iu which theblessed ploughed, sowed, and reaped in a future state. Tliis form also, under another name,occurs at Ombos, and appears among the titles of Netpe and Isis, of which goddesses she maybe a lower manifestation. Fiff. 73. This goddess, indifferently executed, and from the Anastasi Collection. N A H A B - K A. One of the deities in the 10th abode is called Nahab-ka, the snake god, and is representedas a snake witli wings and human legs,* or a snake with human hands and legs, holding in eachhand a knife.^ Fig. 74 represents him with his hands to his head, and fig. 75 holding in each hand a vase,probably alluding to his name, uniting offerings. ANOTJP OR ANUBIS. The deity called by the Greeks Anubis, in the Coptic books Anob or Anoub,^ and in thehieroglyphics Anepo^ or Anoup,°

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