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No. 599. Upper part of a statue of Peclit or Pasht, wearing on 
her head the solar disk. Dark granite. From Karnak. Presented 
by W. R. Hamilton , Esq. 
No. 600. Torso of a statue of a king, whose head has worn the 
nemms or klaft; down the plinth behind is the standard and prenomen 
of Psammetiehus II., or Apries, of the 26th dynasty. From Karnak. 
Presented by W. R. Hamilton , Esq. 
No. 601. Sepulchral tablet of Peter, a religious, deceased the 25th 
of Choiak, the 8th Indiction. Sandstone. From the Earl of Bel- 
more's collection. 
No. 602. Sepulchral tablet in Greek, of Akkendarpe, deceased 
17th of Choiak, 1st Indiction. Sandstone. 
No. 603. Tablet in Greek, recording the repair of some gate under 
the direction of Giaulacius Megaloprius? and Lucas, phylarch of the 
district of Paneuf, in the month of Paophi, 14th Indiction. From the 
Earl of Belmore's collection. 
No. 604. Christian sepulchral tablet, with a Coptic inscription, for 
Georgios, a monk, deceased 17th of the month Thoth, 5th year of an In¬ 
diction. Calcareous stone. From the collection of the Earl of Belmore. 
No. 605. Capital of a small column or pilaster, the upper part 
decorated with a frieze of disk-bearing uraei; below, the solar disk 
entwined by tw 7 o similar ursei; below is a naked figure elevating both 
hands and arms. Sandstone. From the Earl of Belmore's collection. 
No. 607. Christian sepulchral tablet, with a Coptic inscription for 
Noi, a female, deceased the 10th of the month Mesouri, the 8th year. 
Sandstone. 
No. 607*. Slab on which, in bas relief, is a figure of Hermes, or 
Mercury, advancing to the left, wearing the petasus, and chlamys, hold¬ 
ing a caduceus in his right hand, and a lyre in his left. Found in the 
ruins of Canopus, in 1819, when the dyke w 7 as making for a canal to 
be conducted over the Lake Mareotis. It appears to have formed part, 
of the temple of Osiris at Canopus, dedicated by Ptolemy Evergetes I. 
to Osiris. From the Duke of Buckingham's Collection at Stowe. 
Nos. 608-732. Sepulchral vases. These objects, when complete in 
sets of four, with heads in shape of the four genii of the dead, viz., of 
Amset (human-headed), Hapi (baboon-headed), Siumutf, or Tuaut- 
mutf (jackal-headed), and Kebhsnuf (hawk-headed), were employed 
to hold the viscera of the dead, which were embalmed separately, and 
deposited in them. Amset appears to have had the stomach and large 
intestines; Hapi the small intestines; Siumutf the lungs and heart; 
and Kebhsnuf the liver and gall bladder. Each vase, of the most 
finished kind, is inscribed with hieroglyphics, containing a formula 
appropriate to it. That on the vase of Amset is the speech of Isis 
to the dead, considered as Amset; that of Hapi, a similar speech 
from Nephthys; that of Siumutf, one from Neith; that on Kebhsnuf 
from Selk. Each addresses the genius as under her protection, and 
“ beside her; ” occasionally the formula varies, and the genius tells 
the dead that he has come to his side, or that they respectively bring 
him w T ax clothes, incense and water. The most elegant vases of this 
class are of arragonite; others are of calcareous stone, pottery, or 
wood; and many from being solid, or from the smallness of their 
hollowed part, must be regarded as mere models: they were often 
