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and crosses between columns, with capitals in shape of the palm. 
Sandstone. 
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), Tuautmutf 
(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; Tuautmutf 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 Tuautmutf, 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 wax clothes, incense and water. The most elegant vases of this 
class are of arragonite; others are of calcareous stone, pottery, or 
wmod; and many from being solid, or from the smallness of their 
hollowed part, must be regarded as mere models. They were often 
inclosed in large wooden boxes, and are said to be found more fre¬ 
quently in the tombs of Memphis than those of Thebes or of Abydos. 
Their use seems to have prevailed from the earliest time ; but towards 
the close of the Egyptian monarchy, and under the Ptolemies, the en¬ 
trails appear to have been embalmed in separate packets, which were 
w T rapped up with the dead, and had each attached to them a small wax 
figure of its respective genius. —No. 608, with the usual inscription of 
the address of the goddess Selk to the deceased Haneb, as personified 
by Kebhsnuf, the 4th genius (hawk-headed).—No. 609, with cover, 
in shape of a human head, and part of an erased inscription, traced in 
waxy paint of the time of the 19th dynasty: arragonite. —No. 610, 
with speech of Nephthys and Hapi for Apui, a deceased royal scribe 
and chamberlain : arragonite —No. 611, with a human head for 
Mencheper, a prince, and speech of Selk to Kebhsnauf: arrago¬ 
nite. —No. 612, with the head of a baboon, dedicated to Selk and 
Kebhsnauf for the deceased Net-a-tapii: arragonite —No. 613, with 
human head and one line of inscription, dedicated to Amset_No. 614, 
with human-headed cover on it, the address of Nephthys for Hapi, and 
the deceased for Amen-em-api, eldest son of Rameses II.: arragonite . 
From Mr. Salt's collection. —No. 615, with the speech of Isis, relative 
to Nephthys, for the same. —No. 616, with speech of Selk addressing 
the deceased as Kebhsnuf, for the same prince.—No. 617, with speech 
of Amset addressing the prince as Tuautmutf. From Mr. Salts collec¬ 
tion. —No. 618, human-headed, with speech of Neith and Selk for 
deceased Nebi: arragonite. Sr. Athanasts collection. —No. 619, 
jackal-headed, speech of Nephthys and Hapi for a deceased, whose 
name is left blank.—No. 620, hawk-headed.—No. 621, speech of Selk 
to Kebhsnuf for Satimes, a deceased chamberlain.—No. 621*, human¬ 
headed, plain : arragonite. —No. 622, human-headed, plain : arragonite . 
—Nos. 623, 624, 625, 626, with human heads and no inscription, faces 
coloured vellow r and red.—No. 627, body of a vase, with an inscription 
