Berlin and its environs; handbook for travellers . ble Collection of Casts. Booms I-X(comp. the Plan) and the Passage from the Old Museum are devotedto Casts from the Antique, and represent the general developmentof antique sculpture fairly completely. The Greek works are arrangedchronologically as far as possible. Excellent scientific catalogueby Friederichs (2nd edit, by Wolters, 1885; 12^). Boom III alsocontains Greek landscapes, and Boom X mural paintings from theGreek heroic myths. — Less complete, though very interesting, isthe collection of casts of mediaeval and Renaissance Italian Scu
Berlin and its environs; handbook for travellers . ble Collection of Casts. Booms I-X(comp. the Plan) and the Passage from the Old Museum are devotedto Casts from the Antique, and represent the general developmentof antique sculpture fairly completely. The Greek works are arrangedchronologically as far as possible. Excellent scientific catalogueby Friederichs (2nd edit, by Wolters, 1885; 12^). Boom III alsocontains Greek landscapes, and Boom X mural paintings from theGreek heroic myths. — Less complete, though very interesting, isthe collection of casts of mediaeval and Renaissance Italian Sculp-tures, in Boom XII and part of Boom XI. Ground Floor. Direct entrance see above. Most of the groundfloor is occupied by the -Egyptian Mu-seum, one of the most important collections of the kind, foundedby Passalacqua, and greatly extended by Lepsius in 1842-46 andagain more recently. It is arranged in chronological order (by dy-nasties). Illustrated Catalogue, 2nd edit., 1899 (3 Ji). The Vestibule contains, among other objects of interest, an. m 2i§ m is 4 m Egyptian Museum. BERLIN. Section 3. 77 obelisk of Ramses II., a monument of victory of Usertesen III., fromNubia (1860 ), ahead of King Har-em-heb, and sacred door leading hence to Room XI (ses below) is at present closed.— We pass through the anteroom beside the staircase and enter the — Colonnade Court (PL III), which, together with Room V, re-presents the main features of an Egyptian temple. On the sidenearest the entrance: Staines of the lion-headed goddess the entrance court: Ethiopian altar which has played an import-ant part in the deciphering of Ethiopian inscriptions; two crio-sphinxes (that on the right a cast). In the back-ground are twocolossal figures of kings in a sitting posture, in porphyry: to theleft Ramses II., called Sesostris by the Greeks, entirely uninjured;to the right Usertesen I. (2100 ), the upper part restored. On thewalls are paintings of Egyptian landscap
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