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Hon, Sir Joseph Banks. Underneath is a ma- room vm. 
nuscript taken from a mummy; it is written on Antiquities. 
papyrus, in the enchorial characters of Egypt, 
and was presented, in 1805, by Wm. Hamilton^ 
Bsq.y as were also the fragments of another 
manuscript on papyrus which are placed near it. 
On the right hand of the door is a frame con¬ 
taining an Egyptian painting, taken from the 
breast of a mummy. 
NINTH ROOM^. 
EGYPTIAN SCULPTURES. 
Many of the articles contained in this Room were 
collected hy the Freyich in different parts of 
Egypt, and came into the possession of the 
English army in consequence of the capitidation 
of A lei^andria, in the month of September, 1801. 
They were brought to England in February, 
180^2, under the care of General Turner, and 
were sent, hy 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 room ix. 
sitting in a kind of chair, and resting the arms antiquities. 
* A considerable addition has been very recently made to the collec¬ 
tion in this room, by the acquisition of Mr. Salt's Egyptian Antiquities: 
the netvly 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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