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BOOM IX. 
Antiquities. 
No. 6. A capital of an Egyptian column. 
Presented, in 1805, by Earl Spencer. 
No. 7. An Egyptian monument, in which are 
sunk two square tablets, one of which is left 
blank, and in the other are represented two 
female figures standing side by side. These ta¬ 
blets are surrounded by hieroglyphics. From the 
the collection of Sir Hans Shane. 
No. 8. A figure of Isis, the size of life. She 
is represented sitting on the ground, resting her 
arms upon her knees, and holding an ear of corn 
in her right hand. In the front is the head of Orus, 
No. 9- A mutilated Egyptian figure, kneeling 
on a square plinth, round which is a border of 
hieroglyphics. 
No. 10. A large statue o? an Egyptian Deity, 
sitting in a kind of chair, and resting its arms 
upon the thighs. In the left hand is held the 
sacred instrument called the Tau. The head of 
this Deity is that of a lion, the rest of the figure 
is human. The disc and the erect serpent’s head 
have been knocked off from the upper part of this 
figure, but in the next statue they are nearly entire. 
No. 11. Similar to No. 10. 
No 12. A fragment of a porphyry column. 
No. 13. An Egyptian coffin, slightly resem¬ 
bling in its form the human figure. It has a single 
border of hieroglyphics round the outside. 
No. 14. 
