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GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. 
[EGYPTIAN 
No. 438. Cast of a sepulchral tablet; a youth holding his horses 1 
by the bridle, making an offering to a serpent twined round a tree^ I 
on the top of which is a crow; a slave boy brings him his helmet, j 
his thorax and shield lying at the side of the tree; from Athens. 
No. 439. Cast of the tablet of Nike, daughter of Dositheos, a 
native of Thasos, seated and bidding adieu to her husband; a child | 
looks towards her. 
No. 440. Tablet inscribed with the name of Timon, a native of | 
Sinope. 
No. 441. Tablet of Smichylion, son of Eualcides, one of the corpo- I 
ration of potters. From Athens. Presented by A. Robinson, Esq. R.N. ft 
No. 442. Bas-relief representing a shield, on which are inscribed jj 
the names of the ephebi of Athens, under Alcamenes, when he held the I 
office of cosmetes . Removed from a church at Athens by Dr. Antony 1 
Askew, and said to have formerly belonged to the Parthenon. 
EGYPTIAN SALOON*. 
No. 1. A lion couchant, whose mane in front is inscribed with the 
prenomen and name of Amen-asro, supposed to be an ^Ethiopian *j 
monarch. The base is also inscribed w*ith a dedication from a king j 
named Raneb-ma to his grandfather Amenophis III. (Memnon), in j 
whose reign it must have been sculptured. This lion, with its com- i 
panion, No. 34, stood before one of the gates of a temple at Mount 
Barkal. Red granite. Presented by Lord Prudhoe, 1835. 
No. 2. A sarcophagus of Petenesi, a bard, in form of a mummy 
case, with five lines of hieroglyphics dowm the front, the 77th chap¬ 
ter of the sepulchral ritual; the face has been gilt ; probably about the 
period of the 26th dynasty. Arragonite. Thebes. From Mr. Sams's 
collection. 
No. 3. Sarcophagus of Sa-atu, or Nesa-tu, a scribe and priest of the I‘ 
temples of the acropolis of Memphis; covered with inscriptions and 
figures of various divinities who address the deceased; from the side 
excavation of a tomb made in the age of the 26th dynasty at Gizeh, ; 
commonly called Campbell’s tomb. Presented by Col. Howard Vyse , 
1839. 
No. 4. Colossal head of a divinity or king wearing the tesher , 
or possibly the pschent, discovered wdth No. 6, in an excavation 
made by Mr. Salt in a line with the vocal Memnon and its com¬ 
panion at Gournah, and possibly from a Colossus placed before a 
door of the palace of Amenophis III., whose features it much re¬ 
sembles, in that quarter. Brownish breccia . From Mr. Salt's col¬ 
lection. 
No. 5. A group, representing the monarch Har-em-hebi (Horus), 
of the 18th dynasty, standing under the protection of Amen-ra. 
Dark granite. 
No. 6. Colossal head, exactly resembling No. 4, and probably 
* The articles contained in this Room, to which this mark (f) is prefixed in this 
catalogue, 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 Alexan¬ 
dria, in the month of September, 1801. They were brought to England in February, 
1302, under the care of General Turner, and were sent, by order of His Majesty 
King George the Third, to the British Museum. 
