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A Possible Late Representation of the God 'Ash Author(s): Alan W. Shorter Source: The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 11, No. 1/2 (Apr., 1925), pp. 78-79 Published by: Egypt Exploration Society Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3854277 Accessed: 09/04/2009 16:48 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=ees. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1995 to build trusted digital archives for scholarship. We work with the scholarly community to preserve their work and the materials they rely upon, and to build a common research platform that promotes the discovery and use of these resources. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
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A POSSIBLE LATE REPRESENTATION OF THE GOD 'ASH BY ALAN W. SHORTER With Plate IX. AMONGthe objects forming the collection of Egyptian Antiquities in the Brighton Museum is an elaborately decorated cartonnage mummy-case (provenance unknown) which, from the style, dates from the Ptolemaic, or possibly, as Dr. Hall suggests, even the Roman, period. In a vertical column down the centre of the cartonnage is the usual htp dl nswt sic
=9 \ 1 d (last signs obscured by bitumen or some other dark substance) "...... everything good and pure, (everything) pleasant and sweet, (for) the ka of the Osiris On(nophris) lord of eternity, Teos(?)" (D[d-hr])'. Of the many figures of divinities with which the cartonnage is covered one in particular attracted my attention, that of a god with three heads (those of a lion, a serpent wearing the crown of Upper Egypt, and a vulture), of which a photograph appears on P1. IX. Such composite divinities occur not unfrequently in reliefs and paintings of the later periods (see e.g., BLACKMAN, Journal, v, P1. IV, facing p. 28; ERMAN, Handbook of Egyptian Religion, 157, fig. 72). For the queerest example of a compound divinity yet published see PETRIE, Hawara, Biahmtu, and Arsinoe, P1. I, for which reference I am indebted to Prof. Griffith. formula, ending with the words
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