Budge, Ernest A. Wallis: Some account of the collection of Egyptian antiquities in the possession of Lady Meux: of Theobalds Park, Waltham Cross (London, 1896)

PREFACE. Vll

the artist had not lost its cunning, that the
worship of the gods of olden time still held
sway, and that the belief in the resurrection of
a spiritual body was no vain thing even to the
educated Egyptian. In the coffins of An-Heru,
and of the priest of Amen and of Nes-Amsu we
have three of the finest examples of this class of
object belonging to the Ancient and New Em-
pires and to the Ptolemaic period respectively.
(5.) Double seated limestone figures of Neb-sen
and Nebt-ta, XVIIIth dynasty. (6.) Black
granite kneeling figure of Amen-[em]-apt, a
scribe, XVIIIth dynasty. (7.) Black granite
kneeling figure of Iupa, the scribe and architect
of the Temple of Amen-Ra at Thebes during
the reign of Rameses II., about B.C. 1330.
(8.) Head of a black granite statue of Rameses
III., King of Egypt about B.C. 1200. (9.) Painted
plaster heads with inlaid eyes, of the Roman
period, about A.D. 300. (10.) Wooden boat
containing figures of the captain and his crew,
consisting of one steersman and twenty rowers,
belonging to the Ancient Empire. (u.) A