Down the centre of room: Four mosaics from Canopus (p. [180]); they probably decorated the Temple of Serapis there.
ROOM 19. Miscellaneous.
In entrance: Funerary urn still garlanded with artificial flowers. From Chatby. 3rd cent. B.C.
Centre: Mosaic—the best geometrical mosaic in the museum. From Chatby.
In angles of room: Cases A, B, C, D: Terra cottas from Kom es Chogafa. Note in Case C, shelf b, 1. Model of seven pots and a big jar—like doll’s furniture; and in Case D some unamusing grotesques.
Also in the angles of the octagon: Cases I, II, III, IV. Funerary furniture from Hadra. (p. [156]). In Case I are two beautiful objects; a blue enamel vase decorated with faces of Bes, Egyptian god of luck; and (shelf b, 2): Terra cotta statuette of a boy, who clings, laughing, to a term of Dionysus, and holds an apple in his hand.
ROOM 20. Chatby Necropolis. (p. [164]).
Several painted tombstones. The best are protected by tinted glass, and better studied in the water-colour copies hanging above.
Left of entrance: 1. Isodora, a lady of Cyrene, with her child. 2. A young Macedonian officer, riding; his orderly runs behind holding the horse’s tail. Date 4th cent. B.C.—i.e. shortly after Alexander had founded the city. 10231: Boy and child.
Cases A and B: Funerary furniture. In Case B are some pretty terra cottas: 1, 2. Ladies sitting. 7, 8, 9. Schoolgirls at lessons.