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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo17amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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490 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL in the interior of a mummy case dating from the twenty-sixth dynasty (700-500 B.C.), now preserved in the City Museum of Gloucester. A brief description of it is given in Vol. II (1911), of the Historical Studies published by the British School of Archaeology in Egypt, and this is accom- panied by a photograph of the original, which has been copied in the annexed figure. Certain of the details are thus indicated in the description just referred to: "The greater part of the Hippocampus is outlined in black on the white ground of the coffin; the ears, the eyes, the nostril and the mane (i.e., conventionalized dorsal fin) are indi- cated in black; round the jaw is a wide black band edged vnth yellow; the muzzle is yellow Avith black dots; the wide horizontal stripes on the neck are alternately blue and red edged with black. . . . The date of the coffin accords well with the period of the archaic Athenian pediments."
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Decorative painting of the Hippocampus, from the interior of an Egyptian mummy case dating from the twenty-sixth dynasty (700—500 B.C.), now preserved in the City Museum of Gloucester

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