. 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 . of the zoned alabaster of which they aremade An examination of their shapes will show that, forthe most part, they are modifications, caused by the exi-gencies of the material of which the vessels arc made, olthe forms which were in use in the late Predynastic andArchaic periods. The most noteworthy are: —. Nos. 52- 53- A p
. 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 . of the zoned alabaster of which they aremade An examination of their shapes will show that, forthe most part, they are modifications, caused by the exi-gencies of the material of which the vessels arc made, olthe forms which were in use in the late Predynastic andArchaic periods. The most noteworthy are: —. Nos. 52- 53- A pair of large sepulchral limestone standswhich stood one at each end of the bier, and in the hollowupper parts of which incense was burnt. They were madefor a priest and royal libationer of King Khufu (Cheops),king of Egypt, 3733, called Ka-tep. The inscription on No. 52 reads^^K_.^]C]|^^u|- [Xos. 27,339, 27,340.] ALABASTER VASES INSCRIBED WITH ROYAL NAMES. 247 0 men- 1^1 (A:[No. 29,479.] No. 54. Massive funeral vase inscribed with the car-touches and titles of Neb-Maat-Ra (chetep III.). From Thebes. No. 55. Alabaster table, with a complete set of vesselsmade to hold oils and salves for the high priestly officialAtena, who held the rank of smer udt, and performed theduties of chief reader to the god Osiris at Abydos.
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