160 GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. [ROOM VIII. 
for cooling his irons. In 1780, Thomas Brand Hollis re« 
ceived it from the Doctor s widow, and presented it 1803. 
An altar, with a Greek inscription, dedicated by Dio- 
dora, a high priestess, to the Tyrian Hercules. One 
side is decorated with a bull's hear! and sacrificing-knife, 
the other with a crown. It was found at Corbridge, in 
Northumberland, and presented by His Grace the Duke 
of Northumberland , 1774. 
A bas-relief, representing a Roman standard of the 
second legion, between a Pegasus and Capricorn; un¬ 
derneath is LEG. II. AVG. 
A colossal head, marble. 
A small Roman altar, with a bas-relief in front of M,ars, 
as a Roman general, holding a spear and shield. 
A small Roman altar, similar to the preceding. 
A pig of lead. 
EIGHTH ROOM. 
EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES. 
No. 1. The coffin of an Egyptian mummy, sent to 
England by Edward Wortley Montagu, Esq., and pre¬ 
sented to the Museum, in 1766, by His Majesty King 
George III. In the left hand corner of this case is a 
conical vessel of baked clay, containing an embalmed 
Ibis; on the other side is the lid of another mummy 
case. 
No. 2. Two Egyptian mummies. That on the left 
hand, which has been elaborately and beautifully or¬ 
namented with coloured glass beads, some of which still 
remain, was taken out of the coffin above mentioned. 
That on the right hand, the face of which is gilt, and 
the other parts of the body ornamented with paintings, 
was taken out of the coffin which will be described in 
the next number. 
In the lower part of this Case is a small Egyptian 
coffin of an oblong square form; it contains the mummy 
of a child. The lid and sides of this coffin are covered 
with paintings. In this case are also deposited three 
cat mummies; some fragments of stone and of pottery, 
with Greek and Egyptian inscriptions; and a mummy 
Ibis. From Mr. Saifs Collection . 
