Austria-Hungary : with excursions to Cetinje, Belgrade, and Bucharest : handbook for travellers . airs (p. 53) lead first to the —Egyptian Antiquities, a collection founded in 1821, andincreased in 1878 by that of Miramar (p. 276), chiefly small plasticworks and specimens of art-industry from the earliest times to theRoman period. Room I. In the centre, two clustered columns of red granite, fromSyene (basis and capital modern). The upper part of the walls is hungwith copies of the mural paintings in a rock-tomb at Benihassan ( ); beneath are steles and inscriptions ranging from the
Austria-Hungary : with excursions to Cetinje, Belgrade, and Bucharest : handbook for travellers . airs (p. 53) lead first to the —Egyptian Antiquities, a collection founded in 1821, andincreased in 1878 by that of Miramar (p. 276), chiefly small plasticworks and specimens of art-industry from the earliest times to theRoman period. Room I. In the centre, two clustered columns of red granite, fromSyene (basis and capital modern). The upper part of the walls is hungwith copies of the mural paintings in a rock-tomb at Benihassan ( ); beneath are steles and inscriptions ranging from the primae-val to the new empire. The most noteworthy sarcophagi and sculpturesare: No. V. Granite sarcophagus (26th Dyn.); XIII. Kneeling statue ofa high-priest (limestone; 19th Dyn.); XIV. Altar of quartzite (19th Dyn.);XIX. Granite sarcophagus of the Ptolemaic period, with its lid adjoin-ing; XXL Portrait-statue in granite (13th Dyn.); XXXIX. Colossal bustof the young Horus (granite; Graeco-Roman period). — To the left isRoom II: Copies of mural paintings from Benihassan as in R. I; below,. VIENNA. i. Route. 55 steles and inscriptions from the new empire to the Greek and Bomanperiods. By the windows: No. XVIII, small pyramid; fragments ofsculptures, mainly of the Saite period (7-4th cent. ); 172. Tombstoneof Ta-Thot (Ptolemaic period). In the centre mummies of cats and cro-codiles, crocodiles eggs, etc. — Boom III. On the walls are coffin-lidsand boards from the new empire and later periods. 1st Cabinet: Sta-tuettes of the deceased (new empire). 2nd Cab.: Statuettes of gods andanimals, etc. In the centre, wooden coffin in the shape of a mummy(26th Dyn.). — Boom IV. In the cabinets are coffins, mummies, andcanopi. 7th Cab. (to the left): Statuettes of the dead (Saite period).6th Case: Fragments of painted and gilded pasteboard; 16. Painted maskfrom a mummy-covering. 4th Cass: Dyes, fruit, scarabs, and amuletsfrom ancient tombs. — Boom V, to the right. In the centre,
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