EGYPTIAN GALLERIES. 
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’ No. ]16. Head of Thothmes III., part of No. 12. Red granite. 
No. 117. Tablet of Abydos. This celebrated monument, discovered 
by Mr. Banks in a chamber of the temple of Abydos, in 1818, pub¬ 
lished by M. Cailliaud in 1823, by Mr. Salt in 1825, and subsequently 
by difFefent authors who have written on Egyptian chronology, origi¬ 
nally represented an olfering made by Rameses 11., of the 19th 
dynasty, to his predecessors on the throne of Egypt; uncertain 
whether in genealogical or chronological order. It originally con¬ 
tained the names of fifty-two kings disposed in the two upper lines, 
twenty-six in each line, and a third or lower line, with the name 
and prenomen of Rameses II. or III. repeated twenty-six times. At 
the time of the visits of Messrs. Banks and Cailliaud, the first twelve 
names of the first line, and the first eight of the second, had been destroyed. 
It was removed to France in 1837, and obtained at M. Mimaut’s sale 
by the British Museum. On the upper line, beginning from the right 
hand, are the names of monarchs anterior to the 12th dynasty, viz., 
Ra-nefer-ka, or Nepercheres I.; Ra-nefer-ka, or Nepercheres II., 
named Nebi; Ra-tet-ka, named Ma; Nepercheres III., named Khen-tu; 
Meren-her, Snefer-ka I., Ka-en-ra, Nepercheres IV., named Reru; 
Nepercheres V. and Nepercheres VI., named Pepi-sneb; and Snefer- 
ka II., named An-nu. The names in the second line are, Amen- 
em-ha II., User-te-sen II., User-te-sen III., Amen-em-ha III., and 
Amen-em-ha IV., of the 12th dynasty; and Aahmes I., Amenophis I., 
Thothmes I., IL, and III., Amenophis II., Thothmes IV., Amen¬ 
ophis III., and Horns, of the 18th dynasty. Rameses I., Sethos I., 
and Rameses 11., of the 18th or 19th. The king, Rameses II. or 
III., probably stood on the right hand of the tablet, and on the other 
is the lower part of a figure of Osiris. The lateral inscription is 
the speech of the deceased kings to “ their son,” Rameses II. Abydos. 
Calcareous stone. 
No. 118. Feet from the statue of a goddess, probably Pasht. 
Dark granite. 
No. 119. Colossal head of a divinity or king. Red granite. 
No. 120. Head of a person of rank, from a statue. Dark granite. 
No. 121. Torso of a statue, apparently of the period of one of the 
later dynasties. Arragonite. From Mr. Samses collection. 
No. 122. Upper part of the statue of an officer of rank, holding 
a standard surmounted with the aegis of Pasht. Dark granite. 
No. 123. Torso of a statue, Sururu, a scribe, kneeling and holding 
a tablet, on which Amenophis III., 18th dynasty, is offering to Amen-ra; 
with a dedicatory inscription. Arragonite. From Mr. Sams's collection. 
No. 124. Upper part of a seated male figure, from a group. Cal¬ 
careous stone. 
No. 125. Bust of an Egyptian monarch in the head-attire called 
namms. Red granite. 
No. 126. Upper part of a figure, from a group. Sandstone. 
No. 127. Head of a female, from a sepulchral group. Calcareous 
stone. 
No. 128. Very ancient sepulchral tablet, dedicated to Osiris and 
Anubis, for a scribe, who receives a funeral offering from his son. 
Calcareous stone. 
No. 129. Ancient tablet, dedicated to Osiris, for Akar-se, who re- 
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