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DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES. 
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polyclirome 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 36, 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 flint. 
Case 39. Artistic and writing implements, such as the palette for 
holding colour, and ink-pots. On shelf 3, two Grseco-Egyptian portraits 
painted on panel, and moulds for making terracotta ornaments. 
Cases 40-45. Various objects of domestic use. On the upper shelf 
of Cases 40, 41, memoranda of various kinds written on stones. Shelves 
2 and 3. Boxes, and spoons ; some of the former made of ebony and 
ivory, and the latter much carved and ornamented. In Cases 42, 43, 
on Shelves 1 and 4, are baskets. Shelf 2. Tools chiefly made of bronze, 
and models of similar instruments, several of them inscribed with the 
name of Thothmes III., a king of the 18th dynasty. Shelf 3. Carvings 
in bone, ivory, and wood. Cases 44, 45. On Shelf 1, baskets made 
of palm-leaves. Shelf 2. Musical instruments, including harps, flutes, 
cym.bals, and sistra, games and playthings, such as draughtsmen, dice, 
rdolls, and balls. Shelves 3, 4. Linen cloths of various colours. 
SEPULCHRAL SECTION. 
The preparations for embalming the dead, and ceremonies 
at funerals, were looked upon as matters of great importance 
by the Egyptians, and large sums of money were spent upon 
the sepulchral rites. There were several modes of preparing 
the mmnmies, varying not only at different periods, but also 
with the rank and wealth of the person to be interred. The 
moj'e costly process was as foUows : — The brain having been 
extracted, and the viscera removed through an opening cut in 
the left side with a stone, the body was, in earlier times, pre- 
pared with salt and wax, in later times, steeped or boiled in 
bitumen ; then wrapped round with bands of linen, some- 
times 700 yards in length ; various amulets being placed 
in diflferent parts, and the whole covered with a linen shroud, 
and sometimes decorated with a network of porcelain bugles. 
It was then enclosed in a thin case formed of canvas, thickened 
with a coating of stucco, on which were painted figures of 
