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VARIETIES, LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL, 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domestic and Foreign. 
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EVERAL remains of Egyptian sta- 
J tuary, sarcophagi, altars, columns, 
friezes, &c. have been recently brought 
to the British Museum, from Thebes, 
Memphis, and other parts of the Egyp- 
tian empire. They are at present dis- 
persed in the Museum, till a receptacle 
is formed, for their classification and 
better disposition, worthy of their me- 
rit, and adequate to the taste displayed 
in their selection. 
There are in a Room beneath the 
Building, 
A Typhonic statue, imperfect, in as 
much, as the right elbow and both the 
feet are wanting, holds the lotus stem 
in full blossom: remains of an ellip- 
tical globe crown the head. 
A piece of rough Egyptian, or Ethi- 
opian marble, apparently part of a frieze, 
covered over on one surface with hiero- 
glyphics in the running-hand of that 
character. 
A portion of a frieze of a temple, 
(red granite.) its interior or projecting 
underside with figures in high relief, 
among. which a vessel brim full of 
water, dropping its contents, being 
super-cliarged with abundance ; exte- 
rior surface covered with linear sym- 
bols. 
Remains of a colossal female statue, 
in white lime stone or marble, includ- 
ing the bust, to middle of waist. A 
leaf of Jotus, ornaments her forehead ; 
beautiful workmanship, and finely ex- 
pressive of Ethiopian beauty. 
A figure in Egyptian lime-stone, or 
white coarse marble, representing a 
body swathed for vest or for a funeral. 
A lower portion, containing the legs 
of a red granite statue. 
A piece of yellow marble, apparently 
from age, which seems to have consti- 
tuted one of the sides of a votive altar, 
with a portion of three diminutive 
naked figures, in basso relievo, carved 
in a square on its surface, imperfect, 
from being broken, Some Coptic cha- 
racters inscribed. 
Remains of a male colossal statue 
from the head down to the bottom of 
thorax. The root of Jotus ornaments 
the forehead, 
A remnant of pedestal of a statue, 
with remains of left foot, finely. exe- 
ected in red marble, or a very fine 
silicious stone: border aueibed with 
hieroglyphics, 
A head of a finely carved female 
statue of large proportion. 
The trunk of a female figure, deli- 
cately proportioned, apparently the 
produce of a Greek chisel. 
In a small Court behind the chief Build- 
ing, and by the side of the Athenian 
Gallery, there are 
Fifteen remnants of female Typlonic 
statues, all charged with stems of the 
blowing lotus, in the one hand, and 
having in the other hand the Tau or 
nilo meter, of nearly as many different 
proportions, and quite dissimilar as to 
remaining portions of the figure. 
Two Egyptian or Ethiopic graces, 
(charities) with either of them, alter- 
nately having thrown their hands and 
arms behind the shoulders of its fel- 
lows, (in red granite.) 
A red granite head of an Egyptian 
youth. 
Remnant of a very large colossal head, 
perhaps a portion of a statue; the face 
is about four feet long by three broad, 
and its members proportionate, and 
delicately beautiful. 
Another colossal head of same mate- 
rial. 
Four remnants ef clustered columns, 
each formed of eight smaller ditto, like 
the pipes of an organ, ensculptured 
with nieroglyphics. And various other 
remnants too numerous to describe. 
In the Entrance Hall there are 
Two statues of male Typhons, sitting 
on thrones, with Tau in lefthand, which 
their knees support; heads crowned 
with elliptical globes, (black granite.) 
An immense colossal head of nearly 
the same proportion with that already 
described, of singular beauty, (red 
granite.) 
A female statue of ordinary prepor- 
tion, with the head of a Jupiter: Ammon 
upon her knees, her throne has many 
hieroglyphics, (lime stone apparently 
is the material of which it is made.) 
An Ethiopian head of large propor- 
tion, beautifulcountenance (white mar- 
ble.) 
An Egyptian sorceress, in a crouching 
attitude, sitting upon her heels; her 
mantle covered with symbols, or hiero- 
glyphical figures, (Bysall.) 
A considerable circular vessel, about 
three inches deep, border inscribed 
with symbolical characters. 
A considerable sized Egyptian (red 
granite, ) 
