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4. Fine bronze sacrificial drinking cup, plated with 



silver-gold and fine copper. From Der al-Bahari. 



5. Fine bronze bowl of the same material as the 



preceding, decorated with engraved patterns, 

 flowers, etc. From Der al-Bahari. 

 G. Bronze obelisk, mounted on a stand, in front of 

 which is a pylon-shaped building, surmounted by 

 the figure of a cat. From Tell Bastah. XXIInd 

 dynasty. 



7. A black painted wooden box for holding " Canopic " 



jars. In each of the four compartments is a 

 wooden jar containing a portion of the body of 

 the high-priestess Hentmehit, whose coffin is 

 already in the Museum. From Der al-Bahari. 

 XXIst dynasty. 



8. A black painted wooden box containing mummified 



birds, legs of sheep, &c., each of which is wrapped 

 up in fine linen. These were intended to be the 

 funerary food of the high priestess Hentmehit, 

 and came from her tomb. From Der al-Bahari. 

 XXIst dynasty. 



ii. — 1-4. The set of four " Canopic " jars, which were made 

 for Queen Henttaui, the wife of the high-priest 

 king Paiankh, who ruled at Thebes in the XXIst 

 dynasty. The name of the Queen, written within 

 a cartouche, and her titles are cut upon each jar 

 in hieroglyphics, inlaid with blue paste. The 

 inscriptions contain the Addresses of the Four 

 Sons of Horus as found in Chapter CLI of the 

 Book of the Dead. 



iii. — 1. A valuable collection of 970 scarabs, forming a 

 section of a larger collection already in the 

 Museum, found in various places on the site of 

 Tanis, in the north-east of the Delta. The 

 scarabs, from which the green glaze has been 

 removed by the moist soil, belong to the period 

 immediately following the Xlllth dynasty, in- 

 cluding the reigns of the Hyksos kings. On the 

 bases of many of them are cut designs, figures 

 of gods, monograms, &c., peculiar to the Hyksos. 

 Xlllth-XVlIth dynasties. 



2. A pair of fine limestone sphinxes, of unusual 



character, which stood one on each side of the 

 statues of Ptolemy IX. and his Queen, and their 

 goddess, at the entrance to a small temple in 

 Upper Egypt. Second century B.C. 



3-25. A collection of stelse inscribed in Coptic and Greek, 

 architectural ornaments, etc., from the Monastery 

 of St Jeremiah at Sakkarah. 



3. Rectangular slab with vine leaf decoration. 



