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in relation to the dead. Pthah was the god of Lower Egypt; and there were two important
temples for his worship in Memphis.
Statue of the youthful Horus, the left leg advanced, and the right
arm extended. He wears the crown of Upper and Lower Egypt,
and that peculiar lock of hair never omitted in the statues of the
child-god, and the statues of the youthful sons of the kings of
Egypt. He was the son of Isis and Osiris.
This example seems to be of the later time, from the attitude and style of the figure, most
probably of the time of the later Ptolemies.
Statue of the child Horus in a half-sitting posture, with his finger to
his mouth.
From the circumstance of the position of this divinity, it was supposed to represent the god of
silence, but it is probable that the Egyptians adopted this position as indicative of childhood.
The head-dress is that worn by youthful kings and princes. This specimen has a loop
behind, by which it was suspended.
The name of this divinity is g,^pn*>poT, or Harpocrates,
which signifies Horus the child.
Figure of Horus standing on two crocodiles, and holding in either hand,
as may be seen by reference to Plate 43 of Sir G. Wilkinson's work,
and to other examples of this artistic composition, snakes, and
scorpions, and other dangerous animals. The whole is surmounted
by the head of Typhon, the terrifier of evil spirits.
These curious tablets were in all probability considered as charms by which the possessor was
secured from the evils arising- from the bite of the venomous animals represented on the
tablet, and as being under the special protection of the numerous divinities which the more
perfect specimens exhibit on the back-ground of the figure. These tablets are not improbably
analogous to the Teraphim which Rachel hid under the camels' clothes. They contain no
Christian emblems, but, in some respects, resemble those of the Gnostic Christians of the
second and third centuries, and they are probably of that same age.
The lower part of a similar tablet. This, like most examples of this
Egyptian talisman, has hieroglyphics at the back and on the side,
and base.
Bronze. 5 inches.
Bronze. 3 inches.
Eme-grained red-
dish talcote schist,
from the neigh-
bourhood of
Assuan. 6 inches
Soft calcareous
rock, or impure
limestone.
Statue of the god Horus, of a more ancient style.
b 2
Bronze. 5 inches.
in relation to the dead. Pthah was the god of Lower Egypt; and there were two important
temples for his worship in Memphis.
Statue of the youthful Horus, the left leg advanced, and the right
arm extended. He wears the crown of Upper and Lower Egypt,
and that peculiar lock of hair never omitted in the statues of the
child-god, and the statues of the youthful sons of the kings of
Egypt. He was the son of Isis and Osiris.
This example seems to be of the later time, from the attitude and style of the figure, most
probably of the time of the later Ptolemies.
Statue of the child Horus in a half-sitting posture, with his finger to
his mouth.
From the circumstance of the position of this divinity, it was supposed to represent the god of
silence, but it is probable that the Egyptians adopted this position as indicative of childhood.
The head-dress is that worn by youthful kings and princes. This specimen has a loop
behind, by which it was suspended.
The name of this divinity is g,^pn*>poT, or Harpocrates,
which signifies Horus the child.
Figure of Horus standing on two crocodiles, and holding in either hand,
as may be seen by reference to Plate 43 of Sir G. Wilkinson's work,
and to other examples of this artistic composition, snakes, and
scorpions, and other dangerous animals. The whole is surmounted
by the head of Typhon, the terrifier of evil spirits.
These curious tablets were in all probability considered as charms by which the possessor was
secured from the evils arising- from the bite of the venomous animals represented on the
tablet, and as being under the special protection of the numerous divinities which the more
perfect specimens exhibit on the back-ground of the figure. These tablets are not improbably
analogous to the Teraphim which Rachel hid under the camels' clothes. They contain no
Christian emblems, but, in some respects, resemble those of the Gnostic Christians of the
second and third centuries, and they are probably of that same age.
The lower part of a similar tablet. This, like most examples of this
Egyptian talisman, has hieroglyphics at the back and on the side,
and base.
Bronze. 5 inches.
Bronze. 3 inches.
Eme-grained red-
dish talcote schist,
from the neigh-
bourhood of
Assuan. 6 inches
Soft calcareous
rock, or impure
limestone.
Statue of the god Horus, of a more ancient style.
b 2
Bronze. 5 inches.