Kirby, R. S. [Editor]; Kirby, R. S. [Oth.]: Kirby's Wonderful And Eccentric Museum; Or, Magazine Of Remarkable Characters: Including All The Curiosities Of Nature And Art, From The Remotest Period To The Present Time, Drawn from every authentic Source. Illustrated With One Hundred And Twenty-Four Engravings. Chiefly Taken from Rare And Curious Prints Or Original Drawings. Six Volumes (Vol. I.) (London: R.S. Kirby, 1820)

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RARITIES FROM EGYPT.

4. The fist of a Colossean statue, supposed to be Vul--
can, found in the ruins of Memphis.
5. Five statues of lions, with lions heads, black gra-
nite, brought from the ruins of Thebes.
6. A mutilated figure, kneeling, black granite.
7. Two statues, white marble, supposed to be Septimus
Severus, and Marcus Aurelius, found in the researches
made in Alexandria.
8. A stone of black granite, with three inscriptions,
Hieroglyphic, Coptic, and Greek, found near Rosetta.
9- A statue of a woman, sitting, with a lion’s head,
black granite, from Upper Egypt.'
10. Two fragments of lion’s heads, black granite, from
Upper Egypt.
11. A small figure, kneeling, with hieroglyphics, black
granite, from Upper Egypt.
12. Five fragments of statues, with lions heads, black
granite, from Upper Egypt.
13. A fragment of a sarcophagus, black granite, from
Upper Egypt.
14. Two small obelisks, remarkably fine, with hiero-
glyphics, basaltes, from Upper Egypt.
15. A colossean ram’s head, of a stone, called bv-the
French rouge grais, from Uppdr Egypt.
16. A statue of a woman sitting on the ground, of black
granite; between the feet is a model of the capital of a
column of a temple of Isis, at Deadera.
17- A fragment of a statue with a lion’s head, black
granite, from Upper Egypt,
A chest of oriental manuscripts, amounting to sixty-
two, Coptic, Arabic, and Turkish,belonging to the library
of the French Institute at Cairo.
W. TURNER,
Col. and Capt. of Guards.
Surprising