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FIRST EGYPTIAN ROOM. 
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divinities and emblems of various kinds, as well as tlie name 
and titles of the deceased, and portions of the Ritual of the 
Dead. The whole was then enclosed in a wooden coffin, and 
sometimes deposited in a stone sarcophagus. 
Cases 46-51. Various mummies and coffins; the most remarkable 
being part of the mummy-shaped coffin of King Men-ka-re, the 
Mycerinus of the Greeks, builder of the Third Pyramid. This is not 
only the oldest coffin in the collection, but one of the earliest inscribed 
moiiuments of Egypt. Near it is part of a body, supposed to be that 
of the king, found in the same pyramid. A small Grseco-Egyptian 
mummy of a child from Tliebes ; on the external wrapper is painted a 
representation of the deceased. 
The principal mummies and their coffins are placed in two rows in 
the central part of the room. The most important are the following: — 
Case 67. Mummy and coffin of Katb-ti, a priestess of Amen-ra. 
Case 68. Coffin of Har, incense-bearer of the temple of Num-ra. 
Case 69. Very fine rnummy of Harsontiotf, high priest of Amoun ; 
on the soles of the sandals are represented Asiatic captives. The outer 
case is in the corner of the room, in Case 27. 
Case 70. Mummy of Har-em-bhai, richly painted, and the coffin of 
Enantef, a king anterior to the 12th dynasty. 
Case 72. Coffin of Ten-amen, an incense-bearer at Thebes. The 
face is of dark wood, inlaid with glass. 
Case 74. Mummy of a Graeco-Egyptiau youth, whose portrait is 
placed on the head, painted on cedar. 
Case 75. Mummy and coffin of a Grseco-Egyptian girl, named 
Tphous, daughter of Heraclius Soter ; on the coffin is a Greek inscrip- 
tion, recording her death in the Jlth year of Hadrian, a.d. 127. 
Cases 77 and 90, in the centre of the room. Two large wooden 
coffins of the Roman period. One is that of Cleopatra, of the family of 
Soter, the other of Soter himself, an archon of Thebes, in the reign of 
Trajan. 
In the upper part of the cases just mentioned are placed personal 
ornaments, amulets, and scarabsei, chiefly found with the mummies. 
The scarabsei frequently bear the names of kings, showing probably 
that the persons interred had borne office under those monarchs. The 
most remarkable are some small scarabaei in Case 95, with the names 
of Cheops and Kephren, the kings who built the Great and the Second 
pyramids, and several large scarabaei of the reign of Ameuoph III. ; 
one (No. 4095) recording the number of lions slain by the king within 
a certain period ; the other (No. 409G) relating to his marriage with 
Queen Taia, and the extent of his dominions. 
Returning to the Wall-cases, we find mummies of sacred animals as 
follows : — Cases 52, 53. Mummies of cynocephali, jackals, and cats. 
Oases 54, 55. Mummies of sacred bulls and of rams, the heads 
and principal bones only embalmed. Cases 56, 57. Mummies of 
the Ibis, sacred to Thoth ; and specimens of the cone-covered pots 
in wliich they were deposited. Case 58. Mummies of crocodiles. 
