10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CRUCES ANSATAE»
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cruces ansatae in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
cruces ansatae and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Nile Boat: Or, Glimpses of the Land of Egypt
From the central solar disk depend two crowned royal asps, symbolical of
sovereignty, — the red crown of terrestrial, and the white of celestial dominion,
and the cruces ansatae, or ' taus,' hanging by their necks, typifying eternity. In the
literal ...
William Henry Bartlett, 1851
2
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years ...
... were either deserted or destroyed, some of the new converts affirmed, that the
religion of the cross had long been predicted in Egypt ; and as a proof of this, they
pointed to the Cruces ansatae sculptured on the adyta of these buildings.
3
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile: In the Years ...
... converts affirmed, that the religion of the cross had long been predicted in
Egypt;* and as a proof of this, they pointed to the Cruces ansatae sculptured on
the adyta of these buildings, jt, * Jamblich. de Myst. sect. 8. cap. 5. f Sozomen,
Eccles.
4
The Migration of Symbols
When the Serapeum at Alexandria was destroyed, the Christian writers of the
time relate that a certain number of cruces ansatae were found in it. They
themselves observe that in these figures was recognized the old Egyptian symbol
of life; ...
comte Eugène Goblet d'Alviella, 1956
5
Essays on the History of Religions
... in a relief at Cairo (Perdrizet, Les terres cuites d'Egypte de la Collection
Fouquet, Plate lv), and in other examples. such as sceptres, scourges, cruces
ansatae, as well as various THE MONSTROUS FIGURE OF TIME IN MITHRAISM
189.
Raffaele Pettazzoni, 1967
6
Alban and St Albans: Roman and medieval architecture, art ...
These have simple expanded-arm crosses around a large crux ansata, and on
two of the slabs there is a cross inside the round head of the crux ansata itself (
the third is too damaged to tell).66 On another stone relief the cruces ansatae
have ...
Martin Henig, Phillip Lindley, British Archaeological Association, 2001
7
The African abroad: or, his evolution in western ...
It consists of three priests, two of whom, with black faces and hands, are
represented as pouring from two jars strings of alternate sceptres of Osiris and
cruces ansatae over the head of another whose face is red. . . . Mr. Hamilton
conjectures ...
William Henry Ferris, 1968
8
The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology
(II) Inner Zone: frieze of decorative elements: cruces ansatae of Hittite type, stars
and triangles (or caps?) (Ill) Central Panel: I am unable to suggest an explanation
of this group. The direction ot the bore brings to the top of the outer Journal of ...
9
Coptic and Greek texts of the Christian period from ostraka, ...
monk. Amen." Below this a large cross with loop [crux monogrammatica), in the
two upper spaces A and U), in the two lower large □^□-crosses or atikhs [cruces
ansatae). [No. 1257.] 2. Gravestone of Rebeka; PI. VIII, 4. Sandstone Tablet.
British Museum. Dept. of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, Harry Reginald Hall, 1905
10
History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria: ...
Sometimes water springs from his breast ; sometimes he presents a frog, or
libation vases ; or holds a bundle of the cruces ansatae, as symbols of life; or
bears a flat tray, full of offerings— bunches of flowers, 3“ r “ earsofcorn,heapsof
fish, and ...
