round the loins, and clilamys on tl)eir shoulders, em- 

 blerjatical of the enemies of Egypt. Its dimensions are 

 about five feet eight inches in length. 



Case U U is the coffin of Penamoun, the incense- 

 bearer of Thebes. The hce is of dark polished wood, 

 ornamented with a small square beard. The head is in 

 a rich claft, representing the wings and body of a bird, 

 with two side ornaments ; round the neck is a pectoral 

 plate, representing a disked face in a boat. The hands 

 are crossed on the breast, each holding a roll of Papyrus, 



and below is the Hat or good demon. Eound the sides of 

 the chest, traced in yellow upon a black ground, is a 

 cat grasping' a snake; the mummy on its bier with the 

 soul soaring above (an indubitable evidence of the be- 

 lief of the Egyptians in the immortality of the soul), and 

 in addition to these we find a temple on a mountain, 

 above which are the symbols of east and west, a lion- 

 headed mummied deity holding two swords, a man 

 walking, holding in each hand a star, the judgment 

 scene, a deity with two snaked heads, and the disk of 

 the sun descending below the solar mountain. 



The next in importance may be considered the , 

 Case Z Z, containing the mummy of Mautemmen, a 

 female attendant on the worship of Ammon, and most 

 probably a priestess. The body is swathed in such a 

 manner as to exhibit the whole of the form, and it is [ 



