The New York Obelisk: Cleopatra's Needle: With a Preliminary Sketch of the History, Erection, Uses, and Signification of ObelisksMoldenke, Charles E.
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The New York Obelisk: Cleopatra's Needle: With a Preliminary Sketch of the History, Erection, Uses, and Signification of Obelisks
Moldenke, Charles E.
Cleopatra's Needle (New York, N.Y.); Inscriptions, Egyptian
[glyphs] "hawk-faced deity with the double crown of Egypt."
_Det._ of the god Horus. 125
[glyphs] "hawk-headed deity with the symbol of life, surmounted by the disk
of the sun."
_Pron._ Râ. 58 60 62 63 64 66 67 68 70 Hieroglyph written from right to
left. 37 62 63 64 64 65 65 66 66 67 67 68 68 69 69 70 70 71 71 94 136 142
144
_Det._ of the gods Râ or Horus. 31 125
[glyphs] "hawk-faced deity with the disk of the sun."
_Pron._ Râ.
_Det._ of the gods Râ or Horus. 27 125
[glyphs] "hawk-faced deity with the Zâm-sceptre, surmounted by the
snake-encircled disk of the sun and the double plume."
_Det._ of the god Menthu. 132
[glyphs] "hawk-faced deity sitting on a throne with the Zâm-sceptre,
surmounted by the disk of the sun."
_Pron._ Râ.
_Det._ of the gods Râ or Horus. 31 125
[glyphs] "ass-headed deity with the crosier."
_Pron._ Set. 146 147
_Det._ of the god Set, whom we identify with the devil.
[glyphs] "jackal-headed deity with the symbol of life."
_Pron._ Anpu.
_Det._ of the god Anubis, cf. 99
{158}[glyphs] "ibis-headed deity."
_Pron._ Dehuti.
_Det._ of the god Thoth. 150
[glyphs] "ram-headed deity."
_Pron._ khnum.
_Det._ of the god Khnum. 87 128 128
[glyphs] "ram-headed deity with the Zâm-sceptre."
_Det._ of the god Khnum. 128
[glyphs] "ram-headed deity sitting."
_Det._ of the god Khnum. 128
[glyphs] "deity carrying an offering of flowers, surmounted by the papyrus
plant."
_Det._ of the god Hâp (the Nile). 137
[glyphs] "female deity standing and holding a papyrus reed, surmounted by a
throne."
_Det._ of the goddess Isis. 126
[glyphs] "female deity with the symbol of life, surmounted by a throne."
_Pron._ As·t. 106 136
_Det._ of the goddess Isis. 126
[glyphs] "female deity with a papyrus reed, surmounted by a pair of horns
and a throne."
_Det._ of the goddess Isis. 126
[glyphs] "female deity surmounted by the symbol of truth."
_Pron._ maâ. 144
_Det._ of the goddess Mâ.
[glyphs] "female deity with the symbol of life, surmounted by the symbol of
truth."
_Pron._ maâ. 37 62 62 64 64 65 65 65 66 66 67 67 68 68 68 69 69 70 70 87 96
122 130 130 144 147 Hieroglyph written from right to left. 71 71
_Det._ of the goddess Mâ.
[glyphs] "lion-headed female deity with the snake-encircled disk of the
sun."
_Det._ of the goddess Sekhet or Bast. 92 146
IV. PARTS OF THE HUMAN BODY.
[glyphs] "face."
_Pron._ her. 70 123
_Det._ of face, front.
[glyphs] "left eye."
_Pron._ ar. 53 54 55 56 58 58 65 67 67 70 92 105 138 142 142 mer, *îri, *î,
*men.
_Det._ of vision. 31 48
[glyphs] "eye with eye-brows."
_Pron._ an, nâ, ân.
_Det._ of vision. 31 122
[glyphs] "left eye with eye-brows and a hoe(?) below."
_Pron._ beq, 118 uza.
_Det._ of eye, sun, moon.
[glyphs] "mouth."
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