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NORTHERN GALLERY. 
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In the next recess are monuments of the 22nd dynasty, which is 
supposed to have been of foreign extraction. Among its monarch s 
was Sheshonk I., the Shishak of Scripture, who plundered Jerusalem. 
The name of this king occurs on two figures of the goddess Sekhet, 
or Pasht (Bubastis), from Karnak. — Near these is a statue of the god 
Hapi, or the Nile, dedicated by Sheshonk, high priest of Amenra, and 
son of Osorkon I. 
The other objects in this compartment are of uncertain date; in the 
centre is a large scarabseus, the symbol of Cheper (the Creator), which 
had been removed to Constantinople under the Byzantine Emperors. 
The remainder of this Gallery, and the whole of the Central Saloon, 
are filled with the monuments of the 19th dynasty, a race of kings of 
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 
Karnak, and the statue of the Prince Shaaemuas, son of Rameses 
II. ; Siout. 
At the South end of the Room is a Table Case containing some 
miscellaneous antiquities excavated by the late Mr. G. Smith, in 1874, 
amongst them are a stone model of a winged human-headed cow, 
several tablets, a bronze spoon, iron and other objects. 
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 
^he great Temple of Phtah at Memphis. On the left are three 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, and that of a queen. — 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 Karnak; and on the other, a 
wooden statue of King Sethos I. 
NORTHERN GALLERY. 
The larger sculptures in the Northern Gallery belong to the 
1 8th 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 noon arch s extended their conquests 
