Synopsis of the Contents of the British MuseumG. Woodfall, 1854 |
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12th dynasty Abydos adoring Osiris Africa altar Amen-ra Amenophis Amenophis III Amset Anastasi's collection Anubis Arragonite Assyrian Athens Athor bas-relief basalt basket Belmore's collection belonging birds Blue porcelain Bronze Bubastis Bust Calcareous stone called careous stone chariot chiefly coffin coloured contain crystals Dark granite deceased dedicated to Osiris deities disk Earl of Belmore's Egyptian Europe female figure fish Fragment frieze front functionary goddess Greek inscription Hapi hawk-headed head hieroglyphics holding Horus India inscribed insects iron Isis Karnak king kneeling libations lotus lower monarch mummy names and titles native Nephthys North Nutpe ornaments painted Phtah porcelain portion prenomen Presented by Sir pschent Rameses Rameses II representing Room Salt's collection Sams's Sandstone sarcophagus scribe sculptures seated Sepulchral tablet Shelf shell side slab South America species specimens standing Steatite sulphuret table of viands temple terracotta Thebes Thoth tomb upper varieties various vase Wall Wood
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Página 145 - And, as thy nature urges, weep or smile. (1) [A sarcophagus, of breccia, supposed to have contained the dust of Alexander, which came into the possession of the English army, in consequence of the capitulation of Alexandria, in February, 1802, was presented by George III. to the British Museum.
Página 237 - They are, under the point of view of religion and philosophy, wholly rotten, and from the sole of the foot to the crown of the head there is no soundness in them.
Página ii - ... upon the donation from his Majesty King George IV. of the library collected by King George III., the government ordered drawings to be prepared for the erection of an entire new Museum, a portion of one wing of which was to be occupied by the recently acquired library. This wing, on the eastern side of the then Museum garden, was finished in 1828 ; and the northern, and a part of the western compartment of a projected square, have been since completed.
Página 118 - The bas-reliefs which compose this frieze are arranged, as nearly as can be ascertained, in the order in which they were originally placed in the Parthenon, several alterations having been made on their removal to their present situation, in consequence of a more careful examination and minute comparison of them with drawings made before their removal from the temple.
Página ii - ... 1823, when, upon the donation from his Majesty King George IV. of the library collected by King George III., the government ordered drawings to be prepared for the erection of an entire new Museum, a portion of one wing of which was to be occupied by the recently acquired library. This wing, on the...
Página 261 - Irish coins, and likewise the coins of foreign nations, according to the respective countries to which the coins belong ; those of each country being kept separate.
Página 125 - No. 176. A fragment of a bas-relief, representing a figure standing upright in a dignified attitude ; probably intended for Bacchus J. No. 189. A fragment of a bas-relief, representing a procession of three figures, the last of which carries * Old No. 105.
Página 133 - ... is leading a ram to an altar, the rest are in attitudes of devotion ||. No. 280. A fragment of a bas-relief, representing a female sitting ^f . No. 293. ' A bas-relief, representing a votive figure of Cybele, seated in a kind of small temple **. No. 361. A fragment of a bas-relief, representing...
Página 25 - Alexander Pope. Matthew Prior, by Hudson, from an original by Richardson. Oliver Cromwell, by Walker (bequeathed, 1784, by Sir Robert Rich, Bart., to whose great-grandfather, Nathaniel Rich, Esq., then serving as a Colonel of Horse in the Parliament Army, it was presented by Cromwell himself). Mary Davis, an inhabitant of Great Saughall in Cheshire, taken 1668, "cetatis 74...
Página 130 - ... GREEK INSCRIPTIONS IN THE ELGIN ROOM NOT BELONGING TO THE ELGIN COLLECTION. Nos. 261, 283, 333, 334, 363. No. 261. A Greek inscription, imperfect at the end, being a contract respecting the letting of some lands by the people of Piraeus *. Presented to the Museum in 1785 by the Dilettanti Society. No. 283. The upper part of a sepulchral stele, inscribed with the name of Eumachus, the son of Euro achus, of Alopecef.