FIRST EGYPTIAN ROOM. 
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Similar shoes, coarser and stouter; one with stitched and cut orna¬ 
ments. Leather, 10 to 9 in. 1. 
Sandals of various forms and sizes, some with high peaked toes, as 
worn in the 18th and 19th dynasties. Leather. 
Div. 4." Sandals of various forms and sizes, some with rounded, 
others with high peaked toes. Palm leaves, papyrus, and wood. 
CASES 22, 23. VASES. 
The relation of the various forms of vases to their uses is not easy . 
to determine ; some appear in the hieroglyphical texts to have been ap¬ 
propriated to particular substances,—as wax, wine, liquids, &c. The 
smaller and more elegant are supposed to have held unguents, perfumes, 
&;c., for the toilet; the larger and coarser, domestic objects, as wine, 
eatables, &c.; others again contain varnish, bitumen, &c. The follow¬ 
ing appear most worthy of remark : — 
Div. 1. Two vases, one having in front the prenomen Merenra, stand¬ 
ard, and titles of a king prior to the 12 th dynasty; the other, those of 
Re-Nofrekah, or Nepercheres, of an old dynasty, assumed by Sabaco, 
first king of the 25th dynasty. Arragonite. 8 to 5| in. h. 
Div. 2. Vase, with the name of Noubemtech, a princess. Arra~ 
gonite. 4^ in. h. 
Small vases in the shape of wine-glasses. Arragonite. 4f to 4 in. h. 
Abydos. 
Div. 3. Circular table; on it eight vessels of various forms, all 
inscribed with the names and titles of Atkai. Arragonite. 1 ft. 1^ in. 
dr. Abydos. 
Slab, with the following objects:—two bottle and four crucible- 
formed vases; a peculiar object, bifurcate at one end; a piece of 
basalt. Calcareous stone. 6 | in. 1., 4^ in. d. Abydos. 
Vase ; on the neck a female face. Arragonite. 9 in. h. Memphis. 
Vases or cups in the shape of the shell Indina Nilotica. Arragonite. 
5 to 4^ in. 1. Abydos. 
Cover of a vase, inscribed with the prenomen of Amenophis II., of 
the 18th dynasty. 
Div. 4. A large vase, with the name of the king Un-as or Hen¬ 
nas; supposed by some to be Obnos or Onnos of the 5th dynasty. 
Arragonite. I ft. Ij to 85 in. h. 
Vase, mouth broken off, with name and prenomen of Thothmes 
III. 5 in. h. Arragonite. 
Vase dedicated by a monarch to Aaf-hat, his deceased nurse. Arra¬ 
gonite. 
Diota, with flat three-handled cover; an inscription states that it 
holds “8 hna and 6 parts.” Arragonite. 10^ in. h. Lower Egypt. 
Vase inscribed with the titles of Nechp II., king of the 26th dynasty. 
CASES 24, 25. VASES. 
Div. 1 . Bowls. One bears an inscription relative to Atai. Basalt, 
compact feldspar, arragonite, ^c. 4J to 2f in. h., 11|- to 5| in. dr. 
Jar-shaped vase containing the names and titles of the Amounartais 
queen of the 26th dynasty. Compact feldspar. 5 in. h. 
Div. 2. Small flat vases or cups, in shape of the fish chaetodon. 
Steatite, arragonite. 4^ to 4J in. 1 . 
