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NINTH ROOM*. 
EGYPTIAN SCULPTURES. 
Many of the articles contained in this Room were 
collected by the French in different parts of 
Egypt, and came into the possession of the 
English army in consequence of the capitulation 
of Alexandria, in the month of September, 1801. 
They were brought to England in February, 
1802, under the care of General Turner, and 
were sent, by order of His late Majesty, to 
the British Museum . Such articles as did not 
form part of the above-mentioned collection are 
particularly specified . 
No. 1. A large statue of an Egyptian Deity 
sitting in a kind of chair, and resting the 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. 
No. 2. Similar to No. 1. The disc and the 
erect serpent’s head have been knocked off from 
the head of this figure, but in the preceding 
statue a portion of them remains, and in No. 16. 
they are nearly entire. 
* A considerable addition has been very recently made to the collection in 
this room, by the acquisition of Mr. Salt's Egyptian Antiquities: the 
newly acquired articles have not yet had numbers affixed to them, as the 
contents of the room are in the course of re-arrangement. 
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ROOM IX. 
Antiquities. 
No. 3. 
