Silly Meme Leads to Research
I found it at Live Journal, via Popegrutch:
* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next two to five sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
* Tag five other people to do the same.

The nearest (top of the pile) is a dictionary. So I went to the first book, _Reading Egyptian Art_ by Richard Wilkinson. Page 56 is all illustrations, no sentences, so I went to page 57 and following the instuctions, I got:

"Selected bulls were worshipped as representing the cosmically important Atum (the Mnevis bull of Heliopolis), Ptah (the Apis bull of Memphis), and Montu (the Buchis bull of Thebes). All of these sacred animals were represented in Egyptian art with their special identifying markings and attributes..."

Wait a minute! Wilkinson forgot about the Bull of Ombos, associated with the god Set. I got to googling, certain I'd pull up some scholarly text. After many pages devoted to references of a book by Mogg Morgan, I finally got to the scholarly text, located at Griffith Institute.

I found reference to a piece I'd discovered last week


Photo ©NCG: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek ÆIN 726, Acquired 1890
Type of work: Stela, Limestone, H. 22 cm.
Period: New Kingdom, 18th-20th Dynasty (1550-1080 B.C.) most likely range 1305 BC.-1196 BC.

That pdf gives a description:
"Upper right part of round-topped stela, bull-headed winged Seth ‘bull of Ombos’
in barque spearing [Apophis], Dyn. XIX, in Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek,
Æ.I.N. 726."

Just under the Set animal hieroglyph (center, top), we see a bull.

Feeling quite delighted, I searched the pdf for 'Seth' and found descriptions of pieces I'd already found and some new ones.

In addition to the Bull of Ombos, I found new info for
stele of Nakht and Seth-Antewy,
stele of Taqayna (Teken), and a
fragment featuring Horemheb before Seth (Setekh) of Ombos!

Not bad results for a silly little meme!