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cording the services which Ptolemy the Fifth had ren- 

 dered his country, and engraved by order of the High 

 Priests, when assembled at Memphis, for the purpose 

 of investing him with the royal prerogative. One of these 

 inscriptions is in hieroglyphics, another in the ancient 

 vernacular language of Egypt, the other in the Greek 

 language. 



No. 35. A Painted Statue, found in a sepulchre near 

 the Pyramids. 



No. 39. A Stone Sarcophagus, discovered in a tomb 

 at Thebes. It appears to be carved from black granite. 

 All round this apartment are various statues of Bubastes : 

 she is represented in various attitudes; see Nos. 41, 

 45, 49, 54,57, 62, 63, 68, 72, 76, 80, 84, and 88. 



Round the Saloon on shelves are various Sepulchral 

 Vases, Tablets, and other Egyptian Antiquities : and 

 underneath them, other Tablets with inscriptions, also 

 Bas-reliefs. Against the wall on the right, on entering 

 the Saloon, are various Fresco Paintings. 



Phigalian Saloon 



is that apartment, on the right hand proceeding 

 from the Egyptian Saloon. It contains yet but few 

 objects. 



Nos. 1 to 11. Are Bas-reliefs representing the Battle 

 of the Centaurs and Lapithse. 



Nos. 12 to 23. The Combat between the Greeks 

 and Amazons : these were found in the ruins of the 

 Temple of Apollo, near the ancient city of Phygalia in 

 Arcadia. 



On the right, is a Torso of Venus, exquisitely fine : 

 near it is an imperfect statue of Hymen. 



We now close this sketch by a brief notice of the 



Elgin Saloon. 



This apartment contains those highly finished and 

 pure works of the Grecian Sculptors, which all our 

 most celebrated artists have united in pronouncing as 



