The History of Egypt: From the Earliest Times Till the Conquest by the Arabs, A.D. 640, Volume 2George Bell, 1885 - Egypt |
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... Museum . Fig . 16. A statue of the cat - headed goddess Pasht seated . From the British Museum . Fig . 17. The goddesses Isis and Nephthys laying out a dead body , and the god Anubis making a mummy . ( Young's Hieroglyphics , pl . 68 ...
... Museum . Fig . 16. A statue of the cat - headed goddess Pasht seated . From the British Museum . Fig . 17. The goddesses Isis and Nephthys laying out a dead body , and the god Anubis making a mummy . ( Young's Hieroglyphics , pl . 68 ...
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... Museum . Fig . 23. Elevation of one of the arched water - cisterns under Alexandria . ( Norden's Travels . ) Fig . 24. An Alexandrian galley or ship of war , having the roof of the steers- man's hut shaped like the queen's helmet . From ...
... Museum . Fig . 23. Elevation of one of the arched water - cisterns under Alexandria . ( Norden's Travels . ) Fig . 24. An Alexandrian galley or ship of war , having the roof of the steers- man's hut shaped like the queen's helmet . From ...
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... Museum . The notch at the top would receive the horizontal gnomon , and then the lines would divide the time of daylight from sunrise to sunset into twelve hours . ( Owen Jones . ) Fig . 45. Elevation of the portico of the temple of ...
... Museum . The notch at the top would receive the horizontal gnomon , and then the lines would divide the time of daylight from sunrise to sunset into twelve hours . ( Owen Jones . ) Fig . 45. Elevation of the portico of the temple of ...
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... Museum . Fig . 73. The name of Trajan , written Autocrator Cæsar Nerva Trajanus blessed Germanicus Dacicus . The D in Dacicus is written with Nt , as it is in the name of Darius in Fig . 180 , Vol . I. The R in Nerva is here a hawk , a ...
... Museum . Fig . 73. The name of Trajan , written Autocrator Cæsar Nerva Trajanus blessed Germanicus Dacicus . The D in Dacicus is written with Nt , as it is in the name of Darius in Fig . 180 , Vol . I. The R in Nerva is here a hawk , a ...
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... Museum , Fig . 89. A Gnostic gem , with a serpent having a glory round its head . The inscription seems to say to the spirit of death ; Hurt me not . In the British Museum . Another Gnostic gem , bearing an armed man with two serpents ...
... Museum , Fig . 89. A Gnostic gem , with a serpent having a glory round its head . The inscription seems to say to the spirit of death ; Hurt me not . In the British Museum . Another Gnostic gem , bearing an armed man with two serpents ...
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