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No. 435. Tablet of Euthydea, daughter of Diogenes, who is repre¬ 
sented bidding adieu to her parents, or other members of her family; 
from Athens. 
No. 436. Tablet, surmounted with an elegant fleuron, and inscribed 
with the name of Epicrates, son of Cephisus, and of the tribe Ionis ; 
from Athens. 
No. 437. Plaster cast of a fleuron, from the top of a sepulchral 
tablet; from Athens. 
No. 438. Cast of a sepulchral tablet; a youth holding his horses 
by the bridle, making an offering to a serpent twined round a tree, 
on the top of which is a crow; a slave boy brings him his helmet, 
his thorax and shield lying at the side of the tree ; from Athens. 
No. 439. Tablet of Nike, daughter of Dositheos, a native of 
Thasos, seated and bidding adieu to her husband; a child looks 
towards her. 
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 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. Med 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, or Nesa-tu, 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, 
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 (Horns) 
of the 18th dynasty, standing under the protection of Amen-ra. 
Dark granite. 
* 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. 
