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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 
monarch. The base is also inscribed with a dedication from a king 
named Raneb-ma to his grandfather Amenophis III. (Memnon), in 
whose reign it must have been sculptured. This lion, with its com¬ 
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 down 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 
temples of the acropolis of Memphis; covered wfith 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 with 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. 
Bark granite. 
No. 6. Colossal head, exactly resembling No. 4, and probably 
from a similar statue ; many of these statues stood facing the great 
colossi in the intervals of the front column of the Propylon ; from 
Gournah. Brownish breccia. From Mr. Salt's collection. 
No. 7. f A colossal ram’s head, from a ram, emblem of the divi¬ 
nity Amen-ra, in his form as Chnumis. This is from one of the 
colossal rams which were placed as a dromos to the Pylon of Har- 
em-hebi (Horus), of the 18th dynasty, at Karnak, and were sculp¬ 
tured in the reign of that monarch. Sandstone. 
No. 8. Statue of the god Hapi, or Nile, bearing an altar of liba¬ 
tions, from which hang down water fowl and plants. At the side 
is a figure dressed as a priest, and on the back a dedication from 
Sheshank I. (Shishak) f of the 22nd dynasty, to Amen-ra. Karnak. 
Sandstone. From Mr. Salt's collection. 
No. 9. f Colossal fist from the ruins of Memphis; it is supposed 
to have formerly belonged to one of the statues which, according to 
* 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, 
1802, under the care of General Turner, and were sent, by order of His Majksty 
King George the Third, to the British sluseum. 
