EGYPT. SALOON.] 
EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES. 
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No. 38*2. Fragment of a Greek inscription, very imperfect. (186.) 
No. 383. A bas-relief, imperfect; it represents three goddesses, 
one of whom is seated on a throne. (108.) 
No. 384. A sepulchral stele, in which an equestrian figure, with an 
attendant on foot, is represented in bas-relief. Above the figures is an in¬ 
scription, consisting of three verses, of which the second is a pentameter, 
and the two others hexameters ; they record the name of the deceased, 
Aristocles, who was the son of Menon, and a native of Piraeus. (213. ) 
Nos. 38.5, 386. Fragments of Greek inscriptions, verv imperfect. 
(194, 181.) 
387. A Greek inscription, being a decree of the people of Athens, 
and of the Piraeus, in honour of Callidimas. Brought from Athens' 
to England by Dr. Chandler , and presented to the British Museum in 
1785 by the Dilettanti Society. 
EGYPTIAN SALOON*. 
No. 1. A lion couchant, the mane in front is inscribed with the 
prenomen and name of Amen-asro, supposed to be an ^Ethiopian 
monarch. The base is also inscribed with a dedication by Amenophis 
III. (Memnon), in whose reign it must have been sculptured. This 
lion, with its companion, No. 34, stood before one of the gates of a 
temple at Mount Barkal. Bed 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 down the front, one of the chap¬ 
ters of the sepulchral ritual; the face has been gilt; probably about the 
period of the 26th dynasty. Arragonite. Thebes. From Mr. Sams' 
collection. 
No. 3. Sarcophagus of Sa-atu, a scribe and priest of the 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, called Colo¬ 
nel 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 with No. 6, in an excavation made by 
Mr. Salt in a line with the vocal Memnon and its companion at 
Gournah, and possibly from a Colossus placed before a door of the 
palace of Amenophis III., whose features it much resembles, in that 
quarter. Brownish breccia. From Mr. Salt's collection. 
No. 5. A group, representing the monarch Har-em-hebi ( Horus) 
of the 18th dynasty, standing under the protection of Amen-ra. 
Bark granite. 
No. 6. Colossal head, exactly resembling No. 4, and probably 
from a similar statue, placed on the other side of a doorway at Gournah. 
Brownish breccia. From Mr. Salt's collection. 
* 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, 
1820, under the care of General Turner, and were sent by order of His Majesty, 
King George the Third, to the British Museum. 
