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bricks were used is described in the Papyrus 

 of Nu, in the British Museum, Chapter 

 OXXXVII. Each brick is inscribed with a 

 magical text in heiratic. About B.C. 1000. 



13. Painted hawk-headed coffin, containing the 



mummy of a hawk. Late Period. 



14. Similar coffin, inscribed. 



15. Basalt figure of the priest Mekau. B.C. 650. 



16. Basalt figure of a priest of Amen. B.C. 660. 



17. Basalt figure of a priest holding a figure of 



Osiris. Late Period. 



18. Five ushahtiu figures of Tchanahabu, and one 



of a priestess of Amen. B.C. 550. 



19. Wooden wool-dresser, with iron teeth. 



20. An important collection of seventeen stelae, 



inscribed in Greek or Coptic, from Esna 

 in Upper Egypt. They illustrate Coptic 

 funerary art between A.D. 500 and 900. 



IV. 1. An alabaster sub-plinth of a statue inscribed 



with the prenomen and nomen of Rameses 

 II. ; the statue belonging to this plinth was 

 purchased in 1903. 



2. Bronze figure of Harpocrates wearing the 



crown and plumes of Amen ; the disk is 

 inlaid with silver, and the feather work 

 with red composition. The ej'es, urseus, 

 and nails of the fingers and toes are inlaid 

 with gold. On the plinth is an inscription 

 stating that this figure was dedicated to 

 Queen Ankhnesnef erab - Ra, daughter of 

 Psammetichus XL, and wife of Amasis II., 

 by Pef-aa-Bast, an official in the temple of 

 Amen-Ra, about B.C. 600. The fine basalt 

 sarcophagus of this Queen was acquired by 

 the Trustees of the British Museum early 

 in the last century. 



3. Bronze censer, in the form of a lotus column. 



On the handle is a figure of the king, or 

 priest, who dedicated the object to the 

 temple. A fine specimen. About B.C. 660. 

 4 Bronze figure of the goddess Sekhet, on a 

 plinth ; behind her is the model of a sepul- 

 chral coff'er, also in bronze. A very rare 

 object. About B.C. 600. 



5. Bronze ring inscribed with the name of Amen- 



hetep IV., who reigned about B.C. 1450. 



6. Bronze figure of a Babylonian, or Assyrian, 



rtlague-god, found in Egypt. 



