208 GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. [BRONZE 
Asia; the nation is personified by a larger figure, while the scenes 
going on at the fortress are a female throwing a child over the battle¬ 
ments, and a man supplicating with a lighted censer, while the son or 
brother of the king attacks the door of the fortress with a hatchet; in the 
last compartment he is represented bringing before the monarch a 
file of Asiatic prisoners. The nations mentioned in the hieroglyphics 
are the Tahen or Tohen and the Sharu. 
These casts, made in Nubia under the direction of Mr. Hay and by 
Mr. Bonomi, have been coloured in imitation of originals by the latter 
gentleman. 
Over Case 59. Glass case containing the bones of a mummied ibis, 
with insects and other contents of the stomach, prepared by Sir Anthony 
Carlisle, in 1805. Presented by Sir Joseph Banks. 
Over Case 61. Osiris Onnophris; the eyes have been inlaid with 
some other material. Bronze. 2 ft. 10 in. h. 
Over Case 64. Osiris Pethempamentes, standing. Bronze. 
Over the door. Cross from the vestment of a Copt priest, sup¬ 
posed not to be later than a.d. 640 ; is gilt, and embossed with a double 
spiral pattern : the right arm of the transverse bar imperfect. Leather~ 
2 ft. 6 in. h., 1 ft. 6 in. b. Medinat Abou. Presented by Sir J. G. 
Wilkinson , 1834. 
On the marble tables in the centre of this Room are models, in 
plaster, of the great standing obelisk at Karnak, and of that at 
Heliopolis. Presented by Joseph Bonomi , Esq ., 1840. 
BRONZE ROOM. 
EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES. 
Cases 1—3. Shelf 1. Sepulchral tablets of wood; of a person not 
named; adorations to Ra, Osiris, and other deities; of Hesi-chebi, 
an assistant priestess of Amen-ra, adorations to Ra; of Iri-a-haru, a 
priest, adorations to Ra and to Isis; of Petas, a priest, adoring Ra and 
Atum ; and another, much effaced, deceased adoring Ra and other 
deities. Wood. 
Shelf 2. Small models of sarcophagi and mummies, found depo¬ 
sited with the dead, and supposed at one time to be embalmers’ 
models. In terracotta and wood. 
Boxes used for holding the small figures of the dead, similar to those 
placed in cases 6, 7. No. 8522-23. Contains two figures. No. 8524. 
Ka-rennu, a deceased, adoring Amset, and Kebhsnauf. Presented by 
Joseph Gwilt, Esq. No. 8525. Made for Bak-en-mut, a priest of Mut, 
who, attended by his sister, Mut-em-ua, a priestess of Amoun-Ra, is ador¬ 
ing Isis. No. 8526. For Anchhar, is inscribed with a chapter out of the 
ritual. No. 8527. Made for Mut-en-pennu, priestess of the Theban 
Triad, Amoun-Ra, Mut, and Chuns, represents her adoring Osiris and 
Isis. 
Shelf 3. Boxes for holding sepulchral figures. No. 8529. Of a 
deceased, adorations to Ra and Isis. No. 8530. Of Chons-af-anch, a 
