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Title: A guide to the third and fourth Egyptian rooms : predynastic antiquites, mummied birds and animals, portrait statues, figures of gods, tools, implements and weapons, scarabs, amulets, jewellery, and other objects connected with the funeral rites of the ancient Egyptians
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934 Hall, H. R. (Harry Reginald), 1873-1930
Subjects: British Museum. Dept. of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Egypt Egypt -- Antiquities Catalogs
Publisher: (London) : Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: New York University, Institute of Fine Arts Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ding figure of Maahes, with crownimperfect. (No. 12,543.) Nos. 112, 113. Porcelain figuresof Maahes. (Nos. 394, 395.) No. 114. Bronze standing figureof An-her, the Onouris of the Greeks.(No. 36,311.) An-her was the god of the under-world of the city of Abydos, and hiscommon title wasGovernor ofAmentet ^KhentiAmentet); when,however, Osiris be-came the great godof the dead ofAbydos, this titlewas transferred tohim, and An-herwas relegated tothe position of agod of secondaryimportance. An-her appears to have been originally apersonification of the reproductivepower of nature, with especial referenceto the sky and atmosphere, and in someof his aspects he resembles Shu. Nos. 115, 116. Bronze standingfigures of Amsu, or Min, a very oldpersonification of the generative andreproductive powers of nature. LikeAmen, or Amen-Ra, he wears on hishead a disk and plumes, and he isusually depicted as an ithyphallic god, with his right handand arm raised in the act of holding up a flail. (Nos. 43, 45.)
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