Back wall: Large and impressive statue of a mourning woman with her child. Hellenistic. Perhaps represents Berenice wife of Ptolemy III Euergetes, mourning for her little daughter—the daughter whom the priests deified in the Decree of Canopus, B.C. 239 (p. [42]).
Entrance of room: Large Christian Jar.
ROOM 5: Coins.
Beautiful Byzantine gold coins. Note especially the Emperor Phocas and his conqueror Heraclius (p. [53]); the latter displays the Exaltation of the Cross, recovered by him from the Persians.
Back wall: Pilaster from the Hospice at St. Menas. The cross has been erased, probably at the Arab conquest. At each end of it, more St. Menas flasks.
Case A: Painted masks, from the (pagan) Necropolis of Antinoe. Case B: Christian potteries from Kom es Chogafa.
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ROOM 6: Inscriptions, etc.
This room contains nothing of beauty, but is interesting historically. The exhibits are not in numerical order.