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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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sale (lot 260), and came from Thebes. Peyron, Le.f. Copt. Plato ill Tim. p. 1043. Ed. Franc. VVilk. .Man. & Cust. Ser. II. vol. i. pp. 282-3. Champ. Pantl). Eg. Neitli>Mbid. RoseL M.daC. cli. Wilk. Man. 6c Cust. Ser. 11, pi. xxriii.« Ihid. Ibid. Also vol. i.p. 285.» Cliamii. Panth. Eg. p. 23. Champ. Iaiiili. Eg. p. 23 E. » Cf. VVilk. Man. & Cust. Sor. II. pi.xxviii. Nos. vi. & iii. Rost-l. M. daC. XX. &c xxi. Slirine-bearing jiriest. Eg. Sal. Brit-ish Museum. Uosel. M. daC. XX. Ibid. cli. ^* This mystic inscription, which is ofthe Human jieriod, is written in apeculiar and unusual manner j and if a snake and arm are Ka,acrocodiletheaSix N, much of it is to the authoruiideciiiherable. — Uosel. M. R. No.cl.xix. Considered as the cow engen-dering the sun, cf. ceiling of theRhaaieseioD, and the sun born fromthe cow, or constellation Taurus.Burton, Ex. Mier.pl. Ivii. Roy. Soc.of Lit. Trans, vol. iii. p. 489 : Paperbv tliu Rev. R. Toinliusou. plate: 6. F?, 13 Fig 15.
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1 OTCflc In Bronzf,. ffuH size ) (P S T^/^ EI 0 (S^ne. fuUsize.) rjnouiaU, ^^i PHTAH, OR PTAH. This god, whose name is occasionally mentioned by the Greeks, and then always asPhtha, was tlie principal deity and protector of the ancient city of Memphis. His nameis alone in hieroglyphics, and the meaning of it cannot, consequently, be discovered. Bythe Greeks he was paralleled to Hephaistos or Vulcan, and considered as the artisan whodid all things with truth, and by whom the mundane and other gods were created; and,like Nouf or Noum, he was a creator, although of another class. There are two types ofPhtah which may be considered as his essential form, the others allying him with godswhose general functions were very different : the first represented him as a mummy, hishead shorn and in a close skull-cap, the body tightly enveloped in bandages, the handsalone emerging from the garments, and holding the sceptre called gom, emblem of power,sometimes united with the emblem of stability, co

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