.386 The Egyptian Society. 



comparison, in the hope that some of the duplicates of the stone, 

 wliich have remained more entire, may speedily be obtained from 

 Egypt. 



" The general subjects of the hieroglyphical inscriptions which 

 they contain, may be collected from an article on Egypt, which 

 is about to appear in the Supplement to the Encyclopcedia Bri- 

 tannica. The first six exhibit a tolerably perfect specimen of the 

 manuscripts frequently found with mummies, and which always 

 contain a series of homages addressed to the different deities in 

 the name of the deceased. The next subject consists of friezes 

 brought from Egypt, and now in the British Museum, compared 

 with another fragment of the same series found in the ruins of 

 Rome. The colossal head, which has lately been presented to the 

 British Museum in the names of Mr. Salt and Mr. Burckhardt, 

 occupies the greater part of the 10th plate ; and the subjects deli- 

 neated in the five following plates are more or less immediately 

 connected with this figure, exhibiting either the name, which is 

 still distinguishable in the inscription on the back, or that of 

 ^lemnon, whom the head has sometimes been supposed to repre- 

 sent, or some other name approaching very near in its form to 

 one or the other of these two. 



'^ The execution of the work is so arranged as to aiford the sub- 

 scribers the greatest possible benefit for their contributions ; and 

 •720/ only the whole of the money collected ivill he employed for 

 defraying the expenses, hit some further voluntary assistance 

 miay be expected from individuals ; a nobleman who has travelled 

 in Egypt having already set the example by taking upon him- 

 self the expense of the drawings of a valuable hieroglyphical MS. 

 which he has lately received from the British Consul at Cairo. 



"^ Each subscriber will be required to pay one guinea in ad- 

 vance at the time of subscribing, and two guineas annually upon 

 the receipt of each volume, which will probably contain from 20 

 to 50 folio plates. 



** No copies will be sold, except to those who may become sub- 

 scribers at a future time ; and in such cases the amount of the 

 sale will be carried to the account of the Society, of which an 

 annual statement will be laid before the subscribers. A copy vvill 

 be deposited in the British Museum, another in the King's Li- 

 brary at Paris, a third in the Vatican, and a fourth in the Acade- 

 mical Library of Gottingen. Other public libraries will be ad- 

 missible as subscribers, it not being intended to limit in any man- 

 ner the description of persons subscribing, nor the number of co- 

 pies which they may wish to take. 



" Tiie management of the work, and any further proceedings 

 of the Society, which may be thought advisable, will resi entirely 

 with the Directors, who wil\ also have the power of making,from 



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