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FIRST EGYPTIAN ROOM. 
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II. CIVIL SECTION. 
The remains of Egyptian dress, personal ornaments, and 
articles of domestic use, show the high civilization and even 
luxury to which the people had attained. 
In Cases 12, 13, are figures of kings and public functionaries, in 
stone, bronze, ivory, or wood, principally found in tombs. The most 
remarkable are two very ancient stone figures from Abydos, and a fine 
statuette in bronze, inlaid with silver, representing a king. 
Cases 14-19 contain household furniture, consisting of wooden head- 
rests, which served as pillows ; chairs with plaited cord bottoms ; stools, 
and folding seats ; some of them formed of ebony inlaid with ivory. 
With these is a model of a peasant's house, with granaries, in the court 
of which is seen a woman making bread ; the wig of an Egyptian 
lady of rank, and the box for holding it; a three-legged table, and 
other objects of a similar nature. 
Cases 20, 21. Articles of dress and appliances for the toilet. Shelf 1. 
A linen shirt, and a box to hold clothes. Shelf 2. Combs, hair-pins, 
ointment-vases, and apparatus for painting the eyes with Stibium. 
Shelves 3, 4. Bronze mirrors, and a collection of shoes and sandals. 
Cases 22-32. Vases of various kinds. In Cases 22, 23. Vases made 
of oriental alabaster (arragonite), some of them inscribed with the 
names of very early kings, such as Hunnas of the 5th dynasty, and 
Nephercheres. There is also a vase, on which is engraved an inscrip- 
tion stating its capacity. Cases 24, 25. Shelf 1. Vessels in alabaster 
and serpentine. Shelves 2 and 3. Glazed steatite, porcelain, and glass ; 
some of the latter, which is of brilliant colours, resembles the spe- 
cimens discovered in Greece and Italy. Shelf 4. Earthenware of 
various kinds. Cases 26-29. Earthenware vases, some of them with 
polychrome painting. Cases 30-32. Vases in red terracotta; one of 
them in the form of a woman playing on a guitar. 
Cases 33-35. On the two upper shelves, bronze vases of various 
kinds, the most remarkable being buckets, covered with hieroglyphics, 
probably for offering water in the temples ; and the model of a stand 
with a set of bronze vases upon it : also two fragments of bronze 
inscribed with the name of Tirhakah, king of Egypt. Shelf 3. 
Articles of food, such as fruit and grain. On a stand are two trussed 
ducks and some bread. Shelf 4. Agricultural implements, such as a 
hoe and sickle, both of iron, and the wooden steps of a ladder. 
Cases 30, 37. Armour and weapons for war, and implements for the 
chase. Among them are several highly ornamented bronze axes ; 
with daggers, spear-heads, and arrows tipped with Hint. 
Case 39. Artistic and writing implements, such as the palette for 
holding colour, and ink-pots, and moulds for making terracotta or- 
naments. 
Cases 40-45. Various objects of domestic use. Cases 40, 41. Shelves 
2 and 3. Boxes, and spoons; son.e of the former made of cbonv and 
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