A guide to the Egyptian collections in the British MuseumBritish Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities
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A guide to the Egyptian collections in the British Museum
British Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities
Egypt -- Antiquities
Marble sun-dial 72
Head of a priestess 80
Relief, with a hippopotamus 84
Green schist bear 86
Egyptian house 88
Egyptian hut 90
Ivory head-rest 91
The Bull Apis 93
The Bull Mnevis 94
Flint cow’s head 95
Jewellers drilling and polishing beads 99
Pylon and court of the temple of Edfû 104
Gateway to the temple of Rameses III 105
Gateway of Ptolemy IX at Karnak 106
Granite obelisks at Karnak 107
Pillars at Philae 108
Statue of Ȧn-kheft-ka 109
Figure of a priest 110
Head of a statue of Neb-ḥap-Rā 110
Statue of Sebek-nekht 111
Figure of a king 112
Queen Tetȧ-Kharṭ 113
Head of Ȧmen-ḥetep III 114
Statue of Isis 115
Figure of Qen-nefer 118
Statues of Māḥu and Sebta 119
The principal gods and goddesses of Egypt (57 figures) 123-126
Khnemu fashioning a man on a potter’s wheel 135
Osiris rising from the sarcophagus 138
Osiris in his shrine 140
Thoth weighing the heart 140
Maāt weighing the heart 140
Osiris on his Judgment Throne 141
Rā at sunrise 143
Rā at sunset 143
Flint amulets (4 figures) 148
The step pyramid at Ṣaḳḳârah 166
A group of maṣṭaba tombs 167
Tablet for offerings 168
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