A Guide to the Exhibition Galleries of the British Museum, BloomsburyThe Trustees, 1884 - 236 pages |
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18th dynasty adoring Amen-Ra ancient antiquities Ascribed to Raphael Assur-banî-apli Assur-nasir-apli Assyrian Athens Babylonia bas-reliefs British Museum bronze bust casts century chariot coffins coins collection colossal colours Compartment cylinder dead or ritual dedicated deities Division edifice Egypt Egyptian engraved Executed exhibited female figure Florence fragments fresco frieze Gallery goddess gods Greek Hades head hieroglyphs Idalium inscribed Isis Kamiros king of Assyria king of Babylonia King of Elam Kouyunjik lion Lycia Madonna male figure marble Marcantonio Raimondi Martin Schongauer medals monarch monuments mummies Nephthys Nimroud objects ornamented Osiris painted Papyrus period Phoenician Phoenician inscription placed plate porcelain portraits printed probably Queen Rameses II reign relief representing Roman sarcophagus scarabæus scaraboid scenes sculptures seated Sennacherib sepulchral shape Shelf side silver slabs specimens statue stone Study supposed Table-Case tablet containing temple terracotta Thebes Thomas Grenville Thoth tomb vases vignettes Virgin wall wooden
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Page 69 - gives an account of the war of Mesha, king of Moab, against Omri, Ahab, and Ahaziah, kings of Israel. After the death of Ahab, Mesha, who had agreed to pay to the king of Israel " an hundred thousand lambs and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool " (2 Kings iii. 4) rebelled, and
Page 222 - Fac-simile of an Egyptian Hieratic Papyrus of the reign of Rameses III., now in the British Museum, 1876, fol. £3. Photographs of the Papyrus of Nebseni in the British Museum, 1876. Unmounted, £2 2s. (Mounted copies and copies in portfolios may
Page 3 - a Mayence et a Bamberg, 1840. Purchased in 1845. 3. Psalter, in Latin.—On vellum. Printed at Mentz, by Fust and Schoeffer, in 1457. The first printed Psalter; the first book printed with a date ; and the first example of printing in colours, as shown in the initial letter. Bequeathed by the Eight Hon. Thomas Grenville. 4.
Page 7 - de Glanvilla. De proprietatibus rerum. Translated into English by John Trevisa.—Printed by Wynkyn de Worde, at Westminster, about 1495. The first book printed on paper of English manufacture, made at Hertford by John Tate; the first paper-mill having been set up there in the reign of Henry VII. Bequeathed by the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks.
Page 43 - in 1857. It consisted of a lofty basement, on which stood an oblong Ionic edifice, surrounded by thirty-six Ionic columns and surmounted by a pyramid of twenty-four steps. The whole structure, 140 feet in height, was crowned by a chariot group in white marble,
Page 43 - himself, represented after his translation to the world of demi-gods and heroes. The peristyle edifice which supported the pyramid, was encircled by a frieze richly sculptured in high relief, and representing a battle of Greeks and Amazons. Remains have been found of three other friezes; but their place on the building has not yet
Page 39 - juxtaposition, and that the effect of the whole frieze is in one sense reversed, by being made an internal, instead of an external, decoration. The subject of the bas-reliefs is the Panathenaic procession, which took place at the festival celebrated every four years at Athens in honour of Athene.
Page 93 - Atum ; 4, Shu and Tefnu; 5, Seb; 6, Osiris; 7, Set and Nephthys ; 8, Horus and Athor. The gods of the second order were twelve in number, but the name of one only, an Egyptian Hercules, has been preserved. The third order is stated to have comprised Osiris, who, it will be seen, belonged to the first order.
Page 39 - on the temple, forming altogether more than onehalf of the entire series. They are arranged, as far as possible, in their original order, but it is necessary to bear in mind that, owing to the absence of a considerable portion, several slabs, not formerly connected, are here brought
Page 44 - and so greatly excelled all other sepulchral monuments in size, beauty of design, and richness of decoration, that it was reckoned one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, and the name Mausoleum came to be applied to all similar monuments. The remains of the Mausoleum in this room consist of:— I. — SCULPTURES IN THE ROUND.