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GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. 
f EGYPTIAN 
En-pe-shaa, his sister, Hen-hura, adoring. Thebes. Calcareous stone. 
From the collection of the Earl of Belmore. 
No. 598. Fragment from a tablet on the side of a tomb , on it Fa. 
meht.'a ind^e, followed by his wife Macha, stands in adoration to Amen- 
onhis Land the Queen Aahmes-nefer-ari. Calcareous stone, 
? No. 599. Upper part of a statue of Pech-t. or Pash- 1, wiring on 
her head the solar disk. Dark granite. From Karnak. Presented 
by W. B. Hamilton , Esq. , , 
J No 600. Torso of a statue of a king, whose head has worn the 
nemms or klaft; down the plinth behind is the standard and prenomen 
of Psammetichus II., or Apnes. From Karnak. Presented by H . 
^Nm^Ol?”’ Sepulchral tablet of Peter, a religious, deceased the 25th 
of Choiak, the 8th Indiction. Sandstone. From the Earl oj Eel- 
“No. Sepulchral tablet in Greek, of Akkendarpe, deceased 
17 th of Choiak, 1st Indiction. Sandstone. 
No 603. Tablet in Greek, recording the repair of some gate under 
the direction of Giaulacius Megaloprius? and Lucas, phylarch of the 
district of Paneuf, in the month of Paophi, 14th Indiction. From the 
Earl of Belmore' s collection. . . . 
No 604*. Christian sepulchral tablet, with a Coptic inscription, 
for Georgios, a monk, deceased 17th of the month Thoth 5th year of 
an indiction. Calcareous stone. From the collection of the Earl oj 
Capital of a small column or pilaster, the upper part 
decorated with a frieze of disk-bearing urrni ; below, the solar disk 
entwined by two similar ursei ; below is a naked figure elevating both 
hands and arms. Sandstone. From the Earl of Belmore s collection.. 
No 607. Christian sepulchral tablet, with a Coptic inscription foi 
Noi, a female, deceased the 10th of the month Mesoun, the 8th year, 
S nS° 608-732. Sepulchral vases. These objects, when complete 
in sets of four, with heads in shape of the four genu of the dead, viz., 
of Amset (human-headed), Hapi (baboon-headed), 0 ack A 
headed), and Kebhsnuf (hawk-headed), were employed to hold the 
viscera of the dead, which were embalmed separately, and deposited 
in them. Amset appears to have had the stomach and laige inte . 
tines; Hapi the small intestines; Siumutf the lungs and heai ; 
and Kebhsnuf the liver and gall bladder. Each vase, of the mo 
finished kind, is inscribed with hieroglyphics, containing a formu '* 
appropriate to it. That on the vase of Amset is the speech ot Isis 
to P the dead, considered as Amset; that of Hapi, a similar speec 
from Nephthys; that of Siumutf, one from Neith ; that on Kebhsnuf 
from Selk. Each addresses the genius as under her protection, and 
“beside her;” occasionally the formula varies, and the genius teli- 
the dead that he has come to his side, or that they respectively bung 
him wax clothes, incense and water. The most elegant vases of this 
class are of arragonite; others are of calcareous stone, pottery, o 
wood; and many from being solid, or from the smallness of them 
hollowed part, must be regarded as mere models: they were ofte 
