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  • Collection: Collecting the world

Ta urt figure.jpg
Figure of Ta-Urt or Taweret standing, on base that has incised inscription signifying: 'the beautiful Ta-Urt within heaven leader of the gods. Come thou to Thebes with the breath of life. Create all laws with the law of life and death in thy grasp.'

frog.jpg
Figure of frog in green glazed ware, perforated for suspension.

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ram.jpg
Figure of a ram in blue glazed ware, ring for suspension. Reid (1912): 'The ram was sacred to Khnemu, god of Elephantine, and to Amen, god of Thebes. It was also worshipped at Mendes.'

Khnemu.jpg
Figure of Khnemu or Khnum in blue glazed ware, perforated for suspension. Reid (1912): ' Khnemu ... was represented as moulding man out of clay on a potter's wheel'.

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handle sistrum.jpg
Sistrum handle (imperfect) with head of Hathor on each side, in blue glazed ware. Hathor was represented as a cow or as a woman with cow's ears.

mould.jpg
Seventy moulds, for amulets etc., in pottery, one in limestone. One of these is for making amulets of the god Bes, as shown in this photograph.

bes figure.jpg
Figure of Bes (imperfect), probably belonged to a piece of furniture, perhaps a bed. Reid (1912):'Bes was a popular deity and was represented as a dwarf with bow legs and wearing the skin of a leopard and on his head a crown of feathers.'

apis.jpg
Figure of an Apis Bull, disk and uraeus between horns, ring for suspension.

ptah figure.jpg
Figure of Ptah in bronze. Sceptre imperfect. Standing on small block with steps in front. Repaired.

Never Atmu.jpg
Figure of Nefer-Atmu or Nefertem (imperfect) standing, ring for suspension, with lotus flower and double plumes on his head

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