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GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. 
[EGYPTIAN 
CASE 58 ANIMAL MUMMIES. 
Div. 1. Mummies of crocodiles, emblems of Sevek or Sabak; one 
has been unrolled. 1 ft. 5 to 1 ft. 6 in. 1. Thebes. 
Div. 2. Mummies of snakes or siluri, emblems of Isis, in shape 
of cakes with mceander patterns. 
Div. 3. Mummies of snakes in the form of oval cakes. 11 in. to 
4 in. 1. 
Rectangular case with a lizard at top and two small rings ; in it was 
found the skeleton of the small snake lying near it. 2J in. 1. Bronze. 
Thebes. 
Rectangular case with a hawk-headed urseus snake on the top, which 
has held some animal mummy. 7| in. 1. Bronze. 
Div. 4. Snake mummies bandaged in shape of oval cakes. 
CASE 59. COFFIN, ETC. 
Coffin of Irioui, in the form of a mummy. The subjects on it 
are similar to those on the coffin of Otaineb in Case 38; at the 
back is a figure of Athor. 6 ft. 6 in. h. Bequeathed by Col. William 
Lethieullier , a.d. 1755. 
Figures of Osiris Pethempamentes, used as cases for papyri. These, 
which are always portions or copies of the great funeral ritual of the 
Egyptians, in hieroglyphic or hieratic characters, were either con¬ 
tained in the bodies of these figures, or else in small cells, with a 
lid fitting to the body. Wood, covered with bitumen. 2 ft. 2 in. to 
1 ft. 8^ in. h. 
CASE 60. 
Div. 1—2. Mummies of snakes bandaged in shape of oval cakes. 
Div. 3. Mummies of snakes bandaged in shape of oval cakes. 
Mummies of fish bandaged, and some unrolled. 
Div. 4. Mummies of Siluri, with their bandages. 
CASES 61, 62. BRICKS. 
Div. 1. Bricks from the Pyramids of Illahoon, Dashour, and 
Howara. Clay. Presented by Col. Ploward Vyse and J. S. Perring. 
Esq., 1840. 
Div. 2. Five similar bricks, stamped with the prenomens of Thoth- 
mes III., and Amenopis II., 18th dynasty, and an illegible prenomen. 
Presented by the same. 
Div. 3. Five similar bricks, stamped with the prenomens of Thoth- 
mes IV., Amenophis III., and Rameses II. or III. (Sesostris.) Clay. 
Presented by the same , and by Sir J. G. Wilkinson, 1831. 
Div. 4. Three similar bricks, stamped with the prenomens of 
Rameses II. or III., 18th dynasty, and two others, with the name of 
Pa-ren-nefer, a priest. Presented by Lord Prudhoe. 
Brick of sun-dried clay and straw, stamped with the prenomen of 
Thothmes I. of the 18th dynasty. Presented by Lord Prudhoe. 
CASES 63, 64. FRAGMENTS OF COFFINS, PALLETS, ETC. 
Mask from a coffin, inlaid with bronze. Wood. 8| in. 1. 
Various fragments of the decorations of coffins, mummies, &c. 
Fragment from the foot of a coffin, on it is the bull Apis, bearing on 
