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Metternich Stela, the Glossary

The Metternich Stela is a magico-medical Horus on the Crocodiles stele that is part of the Egyptian collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.^[1]

33 relations: Akhekh, Alexander the Great, Alexandria, Apep, Austrian Empire, Bes, Bohemia, E. A. Wallis Budge, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Franciscans, Greywacke, Heliopolis (ancient Egypt), Horus, Horus on the Crocodiles, Isis, Klemens von Metternich, Kynžvart Castle, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mnevis, Monastery, Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Nectanebo II, Nekhbet, Nephthys, New York City, Osiris, Pedestal, Persians, Ra, Set (deity), Thirtieth Dynasty of Egypt, Thoth, Wadjet.
1828 archaeological discoveries
4th-century BC steles
Ancient Egyptian stelas
Klemens von Metternich
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thirtieth Dynasty of Egypt

Akhekh

The Akhekh (also transliterated as Akekhu) is a legendary creature in Egyptian mythology and art.

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Alexander the Great

Alexander III of Macedon (Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), most commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon.

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Alexandria

Alexandria (الإسكندرية; Ἀλεξάνδρεια, Coptic: Ⲣⲁⲕⲟϯ - Rakoti or ⲁⲗⲉⲝⲁⲛⲇⲣⲓⲁ) is the second largest city in Egypt and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast.

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Apep, also spelled Apepi, Aapep (Ancient Egyptian: italics; Coptic: Ⲁⲫⲱⲫ Erman, Adolf, and Hermann Grapow, eds. 1926–1953. Wörterbuch der aegyptischen Sprache im Auftrage der deutschen Akademien. 6 vols. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'schen Buchhandlungen. (Reprinted Berlin: Akademie-Verlag GmbH, 1971).), or Apophis (Ancient Greek: Ἄποφις), is the ancient Egyptian deity who embodied darkness and disorder, and was thus the opponent of light and Ma'at (order/truth).

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Austrian Empire

The Austrian Empire, officially known as the Empire of Austria, was a multinational European great power from 1804 to 1867, created by proclamation out of the realms of the Habsburgs.

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Bes

Bes (also spelled as Bisu, Ⲃⲏⲥ), together with his feminine counterpart Beset, is an ancient Egyptian deity, likely of Kushite/Nubian or Nehesi C-Group culture origin worshipped as a protector of households and, in particular, of mothers, children, and childbirth.

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Bohemia

Bohemia (Čechy; Böhmen; Čěska; Czechy) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic.

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E. A. Wallis Budge

Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (27 July 185723 November 1934) was an English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist who worked for the British Museum and published numerous works on the ancient Near East.

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Egyptian hieroglyphs

Egyptian hieroglyphs were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt for writing the Egyptian language.

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Franciscans

The Franciscans are a group of related mendicant religious orders of the Catholic Church.

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Greywacke

Greywacke or graywacke (German grauwacke, signifying a grey, earthy rock) is a variety of sandstone generally characterized by its hardness, dark color, and poorly sorted angular grains of quartz, feldspar, and small rock fragments or sand-size lithic fragments set in a compact, clay-fine matrix.

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Heliopolis (ancient Egypt)

Heliopolis (Jwnw, Iunu; jwnw, 'the Pillars'; ⲱⲛ; City of the Sun) was a major city of ancient Egypt.

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Horus

Horus, also known as Hor, in Ancient Egyptian, is one of the most significant ancient Egyptian deities who served many functions, most notably as the god of kingship, healing, protection, the sun, and the sky.

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Horus on the Crocodiles

Horus on the Crocodiles is a motif found on ancient Egyptian healing amulets from the Third Intermediate Period until the end of the Ptolemaic dynasty, as well as on larger cippi and stelae.

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Isis

Isis was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world.

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Klemens von Metternich

Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Prince of Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein; Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar Fürst von Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein (15 May 1773 – 11 June 1859), known as Klemens von Metternich or Prince Metternich, was a conservative Austrian statesman and diplomat who was at the center of the European balance of power known as the Concert of Europe for three decades as the Austrian Empire's foreign minister from 1809 and Chancellor from 1821 until the liberal Revolutions of 1848 forced his resignation.

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Kynžvart Castle

Kynžvart Castle (Zámek Kynžvart; Schloss Königswart) is a historic château located near Lázně Kynžvart in the Cheb District of the Czech Republic.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City.

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Mnevis

Mnevis is the Hellenized name of an ancient Egyptian bull god which had its centre of worship at Heliopolis, and was known to the ancient Egyptians as Mer-wer or Nem-wer.

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Monastery

A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits).

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Muhammad Ali of Egypt

Muhammad Ali (4 March 1769 – 2 August 1849) was an Ottoman Albanian governor and military commander who was the de facto ruler of Egypt from 1805 to 1848, considered the founder of modern Egypt.

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Nectanebo II

Nectanebo II (Egyptian: Nḫt-Ḥr-Ḥbt; Νεκτανεβώς) was the last native ruler of ancient Egypt, as well as the third and last pharaoh of the Thirtieth Dynasty, reigning from 358 to 340 BC.

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Nekhbet

Nekhbet (also spelt Nekhebit) is an early predynastic local goddess in Egyptian mythology, who was the patron of the city of Nekheb (her name meaning of Nekheb).

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Nephthys

Nephthys or Nebet-Het in ancient Egyptian (Νέφθυς) was a goddess in ancient Egyptian religion.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Osiris

Osiris (from Egyptian wsjr) is the god of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, resurrection, life, and vegetation in ancient Egyptian religion. He was classically depicted as a green-skinned deity with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive atef crown, and holding a symbolic crook and flail.

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Pedestal

A pedestal or plinth is a support at the bottom of a statue, vase, column, or certain altars.

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Persians

The Persians--> are an Iranian ethnic group who comprise over half of the population of Iran.

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Ra

Ra (rꜥ; also transliterated,; cuneiform: ri-a or ri-ia; Phoenician: 𐤓𐤏,CIS I 3778 romanized: rʿ) or Re (translit) was the ancient Egyptian deity of the Sun.

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Set (deity)

Set (Egyptological: Sutekh - swtẖ ~ stẖ or: Seth) is a god of deserts, storms, disorder, violence, and foreigners in ancient Egyptian religion.

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Thirtieth Dynasty of Egypt

The Thirtieth Dynasty of Egypt (notated Dynasty XXX, alternatively 30th Dynasty or Dynasty 30) is usually classified as the fifth Dynasty of the Late Period of ancient Egypt.

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Thoth

Thoth (from Θώθ Thṓth, borrowed from Ⲑⲱⲟⲩⲧ Thōout, Egyptian:, the reflex of ḏḥwtj " is like the ibis") is an ancient Egyptian deity.

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Wadjet

Wadjet (wꜢḏyt "Green One"), known to the Greek world as Uto (Οὐτώ) or Buto (Βουτώ) among other renderings including Wedjat, Uadjet, and Udjo, was originally the ancient Egyptian local goddess of the city of Dep or Buto in Lower Egypt, which was an important site in prehistoric Egypt.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metternich_Stela

Also known as Magical Stela, Metternich Stele.

Metternich Stela, the Glossary

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See also

1828 archaeological discoveries

4th-century BC steles

Ancient Egyptian stelas

Klemens von Metternich

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Thirtieth Dynasty of Egypt

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