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[EGYPT. ROOM. 
Osiris No name remains, but the case is apparently of the style and 
period of the coffin of king Nentef, in Case 70. Wood. 6 ft. 
1 'over Case 34. Coffin of Mauteneimas, or Mouteneimos, female 
musician of the goddess Maut ; on it Netpe, a door with bolts, a ram 
and vase, and the usual scenes. Wood. 5 ft. 11 in. h. 
Over Cases 40 to 57. Casts of sculptures from the entrance ot 
the small temple at Beit-oually near Kalabshe. In the first division 
on the left hand, the monarch Rameses II. seated on his throne re- 
ceives the principal officers of his court, who bring before his feet cap- 
tives of the chief nations of Asia. In the second division, the king, 
attended by his dog Anathemnisht, is about to decapitate an Asiatic. 
In the third, crowned in the teshr or red cap, having ascended his 
chariot, he attacks an Asiatic nation, who are represented m lull rout. 
The next compartment shows the monarch attacking a fortress ot Central 
Asia ; the nation is personified by a larger figure, while the scenes 
going on at the fortress are a female throwing a child over the battle- 
ments, and a man supplicating with a lighted censer, while the son or 
brother of the king attacks the door of the fortress with a hatchet ; in the 
last compartment he is represented bringing before the monarch a 
file of Asiatic prisoners. The nations mentioned m the hieroglyphics 
are the Tahen or Tolien and the Sharu. _ , , 
These casts, made in Nubia under the direction of .Mr. Hay and by 
Mr. Bonomi, have been coloured in imitation of originals by the latter 
ge OveT^ase 5. Glass case containing the bones of a mummied ibis, 
with insects and other contents of the stomach, prepared by Sir Anthony 
Carlisle, in 1805. Presented by Sir Joseph Banks. 
Over Case 6. Statue of a queen, or of a goddess, standing. 
Bronze. 
Over Case 3. 
the 22nd dynasty. 
Over Case 61. 
Statue of a queen or of a goddess, of the period of 
Bronze. 
Osiris Onnophris ; the eyes have been inlaid with 
some other material. Bronze. 2 ft. 10 in. h. 
Over Case 64. Osiris Pethempamentes, standing. Bronze. 
Over the door. Cross from the vestment of a Copt priest, sup- 
posed not to be later than a.d. 640 ; is gilt, and embossed with a double 
spiral pattern : the right arm of the transverse bar imperfect. Loathe*. 
2 ft. 6 in. h., 1 ft. 6 in. b. Medinat Abou. Presented by Sir J. Or. 
Wilkinson , 1834. „ , . _ - 
On the marble tables in the centre of this Room are models, in 
plaster, of the great standing obelisk at Karnak, and ot that at 
Heliopolis. Presented by Joseph Bonomi , Esq., 1840. 
