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N°.
177.
Two Frogs.
One admirably formed and painted, with black eyes, and a black streak down its back,
other cut out of hard stone.
The
Porcelain. Blue
glaze. 1 inch.
178. Statue of a Frog, the size of nature
179.
180.
181.
182.
183.
184.
185.
It has just been discovered by Professor Lepsius, that the frog-headed divinities represent one
of the four Elements. This ancient chemical illusion may now be quoted as another proof
that the science, and the name by which the science is known in Europe, were derived from
Egypt, whose ancient hieroglyphical name is Chemi.
Statue of a Frog, unfinished.
Three figures of frogs.
One in soft stone, one hard stone, one glass. Two of them are perforated to be worn.
Figure of a Fish of the Nile.
The meaning attached to the figure of this animal in the hieroglyphics, is " impurity," yet
it is represented in the pictures in the tombs as being caught in great quantities, and
salted for food. It is a large fish, and in great abundance during the inundation.
Three disks on stands, representing the solar disk. &
Two are in stone, one in green glass.
Two disks, one having a line parallel to its circumference.
They are not perfectly circular, but rather wide, like the disks in the hieroglyphics.
Four hieroglyphical emblems.
Representing the sun descending behind the mountains of the west. j
Card, containing fourteen heart-shaped hieroglyphical emblems.
They are supposed to represent a vase in which the heart of the deceased is placed to be
weighed when he arrives at the Hall of Judgment, as seen in the representation in the
funereal papyri.
Two of this collection are made of obsidion, or black glass, one carnelian, one root of emerald,
or greenish talcose rock, one ironstone, or reddish calcareous rock, one sandstone, one hard
stone, engraved, six of various hard stones, one porcelain.
Purchased at the sale of the antiquities of Madame Lavoratori, May 1833, at Mr. Sotheby's,
Lot 18G.
Hard green stone,
or serpentinous
rock. inches.
Hard green stone.
£ of an inch.
i an inch, £ of an
inch, f of an inch.
Green talcose rock,
called radice di
smeraldo by the
Levantines. 1J
inch.
• Green talcose rock.
White calcareous
rock. Mottled
silicious rock.
From J to £ of an
inch.
Dark grey slate
rock. Drab co-
loured silicious
rock, f of an inch.
Two are in hard
polished red jasper
rock, and two in
rosso antico, or red
calcareous rock.
From £ to J of an
inch.
N°.
177.
Two Frogs.
One admirably formed and painted, with black eyes, and a black streak down its back,
other cut out of hard stone.
The
Porcelain. Blue
glaze. 1 inch.
178. Statue of a Frog, the size of nature
179.
180.
181.
182.
183.
184.
185.
It has just been discovered by Professor Lepsius, that the frog-headed divinities represent one
of the four Elements. This ancient chemical illusion may now be quoted as another proof
that the science, and the name by which the science is known in Europe, were derived from
Egypt, whose ancient hieroglyphical name is Chemi.
Statue of a Frog, unfinished.
Three figures of frogs.
One in soft stone, one hard stone, one glass. Two of them are perforated to be worn.
Figure of a Fish of the Nile.
The meaning attached to the figure of this animal in the hieroglyphics, is " impurity," yet
it is represented in the pictures in the tombs as being caught in great quantities, and
salted for food. It is a large fish, and in great abundance during the inundation.
Three disks on stands, representing the solar disk. &
Two are in stone, one in green glass.
Two disks, one having a line parallel to its circumference.
They are not perfectly circular, but rather wide, like the disks in the hieroglyphics.
Four hieroglyphical emblems.
Representing the sun descending behind the mountains of the west. j
Card, containing fourteen heart-shaped hieroglyphical emblems.
They are supposed to represent a vase in which the heart of the deceased is placed to be
weighed when he arrives at the Hall of Judgment, as seen in the representation in the
funereal papyri.
Two of this collection are made of obsidion, or black glass, one carnelian, one root of emerald,
or greenish talcose rock, one ironstone, or reddish calcareous rock, one sandstone, one hard
stone, engraved, six of various hard stones, one porcelain.
Purchased at the sale of the antiquities of Madame Lavoratori, May 1833, at Mr. Sotheby's,
Lot 18G.
Hard green stone,
or serpentinous
rock. inches.
Hard green stone.
£ of an inch.
i an inch, £ of an
inch, f of an inch.
Green talcose rock,
called radice di
smeraldo by the
Levantines. 1J
inch.
• Green talcose rock.
White calcareous
rock. Mottled
silicious rock.
From J to £ of an
inch.
Dark grey slate
rock. Drab co-
loured silicious
rock, f of an inch.
Two are in hard
polished red jasper
rock, and two in
rosso antico, or red
calcareous rock.
From £ to J of an
inch.