ROOM 10: Ancient Egypt: Small exhibits.
In the entrance: Offering table, with basins for the libations.
Right wall—Case C; Statuettes of gods, all named. The most interesting for the history of Alexandria are 3-25 Osiris, and 26-40 the bull Apis, with whom he was compounded to make Serapis. (p. [18]).
Case D: Mummies of a baby, of an eagle, of an ibis.
Case Aa—Shelf b (at the top): winged scarabs in blue enamel. Shelf k (No. 1): statuette of Sekhet, goddess of the heat of the sun—she has the head of a lioness and holds a gold flower. Shelf f: Bast, the cat-god. No. 39 has a kitten between the paws. 51 gold earrings. Shelf 1 has more statues of Bast. 55 very good.
Left wall: Case h “Canopic” vases of alabaster. Used to hold those parts of the dead that could not be embalmed. Each dedicated to a son of Horus. Amset held the stomach; Hapi the intestines; Douamoutef the lungs; Kebehsenouf the liver. For their connection with the town of Canopus, see p. [176].
Case Bb:—More statuettes—especially shelf i.—Harpocrates and Horus, and shelf k. Isis nursing Horus—the artistic origin for the Christian design of the Madonna and Child. (p. [69]). There are some rattles and vases of the Isis cult.
Case L: Little serving figures (Ushabti), which were put in the grave with the mummy to do the work for it in the underworld.
Also round the wall of the room: six painted mummy cases.
Down the middle: two big tables of scarabs, amulets, gold trinkets, etc.