Difficulty about this period: Column, E.S. 64. pose him son of Seti II.; Bunsen, Repa Proscynemata at Silsilis and Eilei- Continues works at Madinat Háboo Works the mines at Sarabut al 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 Name on statue of the Nile, E.R. 8. Embossed leather mummy Attributed to the XXIXth Dynasty A lamb said to speak in his reign; Events. Monuments in British and probable epoch of the com- Continues the edifices at Luxor and Remains found at Karnak, and At Madinat Háboo conquers the Bronze box, E.R. 5310. 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 |