Difference between revisions of "Anta"
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== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_20113" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_20113" /> == | ||
<p> a warlike [[Egyptian]] goddess, who is generally represented as wearing a white mitre similar to that of Osiris, ornamented with two feathers, and brandishing a kind of battle-axe in her left hand, while she holds a spear with her- right. She is very rarely represented on the Egyptian sculptures, and is not found before the time of Amenhotep I, of the 18th dynasty. She was properly a [[Syrian]] or | <p> a warlike [[Egyptian]] goddess, who is generally represented as wearing a white mitre similar to that of Osiris, ornamented with two feathers, and brandishing a kind of battle-axe in her left hand, while she holds a spear with her- right. She is very rarely represented on the Egyptian sculptures, and is not found before the time of Amenhotep I, of the 18th dynasty. She was properly a [[Syrian]] or Asiatic goddess. </p> | ||
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Latest revision as of 08:51, 15 October 2021
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(n.) A species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
a warlike Egyptian goddess, who is generally represented as wearing a white mitre similar to that of Osiris, ornamented with two feathers, and brandishing a kind of battle-axe in her left hand, while she holds a spear with her- right. She is very rarely represented on the Egyptian sculptures, and is not found before the time of Amenhotep I, of the 18th dynasty. She was properly a Syrian or Asiatic goddess.
