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Difficulty about this period: Column, E.S. 64.
Champ., Rosell., Wilkins. sup-

pose him son of Seti II.; Bunsen,
head of a new Dynasty.
rations at Memphis.

Repa

Proscynemata at Silsilis and Eilei-
thyia. Grand palace at Madinat
Háboo. Conquest of the Libanus,
Palestine, Africa.

Continues works at Madinat Háboo
and Karnak.

Works the mines at Sarabut al
Khadem.

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Continues constructions at Karnak, Statues of Pasht, E.R. 63, 517.

and erects portico of the Bubastites; proscynema at Silsilis; conquers Æthiopia, Nubia; takes Jerusalem and many cities in Judea. Change in art visible. Constructs Portico of Bubastites.

Constructs Portico of Bubastites at
Karnak.

Name on statue of the Nile, E.R. 8.

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Embossed leather mummy
bandages, Case 101, E.R.
7873, and fol.

Attributed to the XXIXth Dynasty
by Rosellini; added to edifice at
Karnak. Egyptians said to be-
come masters of the sea.
Identified with Amen-se-pehn by
Wilkinson.

A lamb said to speak in his reign;
gives Egypt a constitution; Mi-
letos obtains a name and supe-
riority, and builds Naucratis. In-
troduction of foreign influence,

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Events.

Monuments in British
Museum.

and probable epoch of the com-
mencement of intercourse with
Greece.

Continues the edifices at Luxor and
Karnak.

Remains found at Karnak, and
S.W. of it.

At Madinat Háboo conquers the Bronze box, E.R. 5310.
Æthiopians and the Desert.

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EGYPTIAN ROOM.

We have now completed the description of those remains of ancient times which are at present arranged in the rooms on the ground floor of the British Museum, viz., the Assyrian, the Greek, and the Roman sculptures, together with the largest and most important of those which have been brought from Egypt.

We now proceed to those which are upstairs, and shall take them in the order of the rooms themselves: first, Egyptian objects; second, Bronzes; and third, Græco-Italian vases. We must premise, however, that in the Second Room our description must be taken as very general, no complete system of numbering having been as yet adopted whereby each individual specimen may be identified. In some instances we shall be compelled simply to state that this or that case contains certain objects. It must be remembered that the arrangement of this part of the Museum collections, as in the case of the Nimrúd and Towneley sculptures, is at present only provisional, and that no complete and uniform plan can be adopted for the disposition and exhibition of the objects preserved in these collections till the new rooms, now in preparation, are completed.

Previous to entering the Egyptian Room upstairs, we will briefly mention several Egyptian objects we have here arranged on the walls below the staircase, and in the vestibule of that room. First, along the walls at the bottom of the staircase, by the door leading into the Library, are a series of tablets, most of them in calcareous stone, which, for their better preservation, have lately been glazed; and over the door leading into the Library is a plaster cast from the face of the Northern Colossus of Rameses II. from the rock temple of Ipsambul in Nubia.

2ndly. On ascending the stairs, on the Northern Wall of the Vestibule of the Egyptian Room is a plaster cast from the northern wall of the great edifice of Rameses II. at Karnak, sculptured in cavo-rilievo, and representing Rameses vanquishing the Tahennu, one of the northern enemies of Egypt. The Monarch himself is represented of gigantic proportions, wearing a casque upon his head, and standing in his chariot; he has caught one of the chiefs of his

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