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wearing the tall plumes, ursei serpents, solar disk, and goats’ horns, and 
draped in a transparent garment with a royal apron, stands offering two 
vases of wine to some divinity, probably Ra, but the hand and the tam 
or kukufa sceptre of the god is only visible. The hieroglyphics are 
names and titles of the king, and part of an address to the god. 
EGYPTIAN ROOM. 
UP STAIRS. 
The wooden figures in Cases 1—4 are generally found in tombs; 
the bronze are offerings, or objects of private worship; the porce¬ 
lain and small figures of stone are all perforated, to attach to the 
network or the necklaces of mummies. 
The reader will find explanations of names and titles in the glossary 
appended. 
CASE 1—2. DEITIES. 
Div. 1. Amen-ra, the Egyptian Jupiter, seated upon a throne. 
On the throne are cynocephali, uraeus and lotus sceptres, and at the 
back Amoun seated between Khons Ioh and another deity. Sand¬ 
stone. !\ in. h. (No. 3.) 
No. 11. Pteh, Phtah, or Phtha, the Egyptian Vulcan, standing, in 
Osirian dress, his head shorn, round his neck an oskh; both hands 
hold a gom. Wood. h\ in. h. (10.) 
Phtah, standing on a plinth, graduated in front. Steatite. 7J in. h. 
( 11 .) 
Sevek, Sabak, or Souk, a form of Seb, the Egyptian Saturn, croco¬ 
dile-headed, walking, wearing the shenti; black, with vellow stripes. 
Wood. 6 in. h. (401.) 
Ma, Mei, or Thmei, the Egyptian Themis, seated in a close gar¬ 
ment. Vitrified composition. 4f in. h. (390.) 
Thoout, or Thoth, walking, in a boat; black and yellow. Painted 
wood. 7f in. h., I ft. 1. (486.) 
Div. 2. Amoun-ra, walking, bearded, wearing the teshr sur¬ 
mounted by the plume and disk; in his right hand -O -; in his left 
the gom. Silver. 8| in. h. Thebes. (6.) 
Other figures of Amoun-ra : the eyes of one inlaid with silver; the 
plume of another with enamel. Bronze. 11^ to 2 in. h. (7.) 
No. 32. A small naos; in the interior a seated figure of Amoun-ra. 
At the sides Num, or Chnouph ram-headed, Khons, and winged female 
deities, with the name and titles of the king Siphtah. On the base 
is inscribed in large symbols in bas-relief, “the abode of Amon.” 
Bronze. 4J in. h.; base, 2J in. b., 2 in. 1. (26.) 
No. 58. Maut, seated, suckling; wants the figure of Khons. 
Bronze . 1 ft. 2 in. h. (58.) 
Net, or Neith, the Egyptian Minerva, on a throne, wearing the teshr. 
Another, walking. Bronze . 4| in. h. (77 a.) 
iEgis of Neith. Bronze. 4f in. h. 
Num, Kneph, Chnouphis, the ram-headed divinity, walking, wearing 
an otf. Bronze. 7 in. h. (92, 93.) 
iEgis of Chnouphis. Bronze . 4 in. h. (108.) 
