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CENTRAL SALOON. 
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great power, during whose dominion the Egyptians conquered Phoenicia, 
and by whom extensive edifices were erected at Thebes. 
In the last compartment is a finely sculptured group in sandstone, 
of a male and female figure seated ; and a statue of King Seti 
Menephtah II. on a throne, with a ram's head on his knees, from 
Karndk. 
CENTRAL SALOON. 
The principal part of the monuments in this room are of the age 
of King Rameses II. , the Sesostris of the Greeks, and the greatest 
monarch of the 19th dynasty. Between the columns on the left is a 
colossal fist in red granite, from one of the statues which stood before 
the great Temple of Phtah at Memphis. On the left are two colossal 
heads, the first a cast from a statue of Rameses at Mitraheny, the other 
a granite head and shoulders from the building called the Memnonium, 
at Thebes. — The remaining sculptures represent chiefly the king and 
his officers. — Between the columns, at the entrance to the Northern 
Gallery, are, on one side, a granite statue of Rameses II., erected by 
King Menephtah, from Karndk; and on the other, a wooden statue of 
King Sethos I. 
NORTHERN GALLERY. 
The larger sculptures in the Northern Gallery belong to the 
18th dynasty, during whose rule Egypt was in a state of great pros- 
perity. It commenced with the expulsion of the Hyksos, or Shepherd 
Kings, from Lower Egypt, and its monarchs extended their conquests 
into ^Ethiopia and Asia, and built great edifices at Thebes. The close 
of this dynasty was troubled by disturbances, caused by a heresy in the 
Egyptian religion, called that of the Disk-worshippers, which has left 
its traces on several monuments in the collection. The principal 
sculptures, proceeding Northwards, are as follows : — Two statues in black 
granite of King Horus, one representing him under the protection of 
the godx\men-ra. — Two red granite lions, one having upon it the name 
of King Amenophis III., the other that of one of his successors, as well 
as the name of an ^Ethiopian monarch; from Mount Barkal in 
Nubia. — The head of a colossal ram, from an avenue of ram-headed 
sphinxes, which led to a gateway built by King Horus at Karndk. — 
Two seated statues in black granite of King Amenophis III.; Thebes. — 
A sandstone tablet recording the passage of Amenophis III. into 
^Ethiopia, the extent of his conquests, and the number of the prisoners 
and slain; Sc.nneh. — A column, with a capital in the form of lotus 
buds, inscribed with the names of Amenophis III. and two later 
kings; Cairo. — Two colossal heads, representing Amenophis III., 
found near the statue called the "Vocal Memnon," at Thebes. 
Several statues of the cat-beaded goddess Pasht (Bubastis), inscribed 
with the name of the same monarch ; Karndk. — A black granite sculp- 
ture representing a boat in which is seated Queen Mautemua, wife of 
