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Title: A guide to the third and fourth Egyptian rooms : predynastic antiquites, mummied birds and animals, portrait statues, figures of gods, tools, implements and weapons, scarabs, amulets, jewellery, and other objects connected with the funeral rites of the ancient Egyptians
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934 Hall, H. R. (Harry Reginald), 1873-1930
Subjects: British Museum. Dept. of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Egypt Egypt -- Antiquities Catalogs
Publisher: (London) : Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: New York University, Institute of Fine Arts Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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insta post ; under the shields is an object which is probablyintended to represent a brazier with fire in it. In the bowsof the boat stand five men, each holding a short stick.Xllth dynasty. ; No. 35,293.) No. 147. Model of a boat with rowers, each seatedupon a separate bench ; a few of these still have uponthem their original linen loin-clothes. A person of dis-tinction, wearing a long white cloak, is seated in the bows.Xllth dynasty. (No. 34,273.) FUNERAL BOATS. 89 Nos. 148, 149. Two models of funeral boats, providedwith canopied biers, whereon lie models of the mummiesof the deceased persons. At each end of each bier standsa female mourner, who symbolizes one of the two goddessesIsis and Nephthys. Close by stand models of water jarson a frame, and articles of food ; each boat is providedwith a steersman, who works two large oars, the handles ofwhich terminate in the heads of hawks. The tops of thesteering posts also terminate in the heads of hawks. XI Ithdynasty. (Nos. 9524, 9525.)
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No. 9525. WALL-CASES 99-109. Second Shelf. Here isexhibited a representative series of small portrait statuesand figures, made of hard stone of various kinds, limestone,sandstone, etc., which date from the period of the Illrddynasty, about B.C. 3800, to the Roman period, about A.I).200. Archyeologically and artistically this collection isof the highest importance, for from it may be traced thedevelopment of Egyptian sculpture in the round, and themodifications which the art of portraiture underwent duringthe successive great periods of Egyptian history, whichtaken together cover a space of about four thousand years.From first to last the sculptors made use of the charac-teristic white limestone of the country, which was generallypainted, to a greater or less extent. (See the groups in 90 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM—WALL-CASE 99. Wall-Case 105.) During the period of the Early Empire,hard stones, of fine, close texture, usually black in colour,were employed in making small figures see Wall-Ca

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