A Guide to the Exhibition Galleries of the British Museum (Bloomsbury) with Maps and Plans |
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26th dynasty Amen-Ra Amenophis Amenophis III ancient antiquities archaic Ashur-bani-pal Ashur-nasir-pal Assyrian Athens Babylonia bronze bust Calah Cast century B.C. chariot chiefly coins collection colossal colours Compartment contains cover cylinder dead deceased decoration deities designs Dynasty B.C. Egypt Egyptian Room empire engraved Esarhaddon Etruscan excavated exhibited fragments frieze Gallery gems glass glazed goddess gods gold granite Greek Greek and Roman Halicarnassos head hieroglyphic Horus Ialysos inlaid inscribed inscription king of Assyria Kouyunjik lion marble monuments mummy names and titles Nephthys Nimroud Nineveh ornaments Osiris Outer coffin painted palace Persian placed porcelain portrait pottery Psammetichus Rameses Rameses II reign relief representing Roman period sarcophagus scarab scene sculptures seated figure Sennacherib sepulchral Seti Shalmaneser II side slabs specimens statue statuettes stone style Table-Case tablets temple terracotta Thebes Thothmes tomb upper Ushabti vases wall Wall-Case ware wooden XIXth dynasty XVIIIth dynasty XXVIth dynasty
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Page 67 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Page 44 - And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem : and he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house ; he even took away all : and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
Page 67 - I added the tribute of alliance of my lordship and laid that upon him. Hezekiah himself was overwhelmed by the fear of the brightness of my lordship ; the Arabians and his other faithful warriors...
Page xxxiii - An Act for the purchase of the Museum or Collection of Sir Hans Sloane and of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts, and for providing one general repository for the better reception and more convenient use of the said collections, and of the Cottonian Library, and of the additions thereto...
Page xxxiii - The official trustees are the archbishop of Canterbury, the lord chancellor, the speaker of the House of Commons...
Page 287 - And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool.
Page 164 - Islands ; and the lowest (c) those of Italy, Sicily, the Southern shores of the Mediterranean, and Western Europe. Each of the seven historical compartments thus offers in its three geographical sections a complete view of the coins current throughout the civilized world during that particular century or period, the whole forming a series of historically successive tableaux.
Page 163 - For the study of mythology these coins present the local conceptions of the gods and heroes worshipped in the Greek world, with their attributes and symbols. The historian will find a gallery of characteristic portraits of sovereigns, almost complete, from Alexander the Great to Augustus. The geographical student will be able to verify and correct the nomenclature of the classical writers as preserved to us in manuscripts.
Page 33 - And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.
Page 177 - Pelion, and on the reverse, Thetis consenting to be the bride of Peleus. in the presence of Poseidon and Eros. On the bottom of the vase, which is detached, is a bust of Atys.