The British Museum: Egyptian Antiquities: 2

angle antient Egyptian antiquity appears Arabs arms Belzoni boat body British Museum byssus called chamber Champollion characters cloth colossal colours column compartment conjectured contains Coptic Coptic language cotton Coutelle covered crocodile curious deity described Diodorus dress Egyp Egypt embalmed enchorial face feet female figure fibre flax French front gallery granite Greek hair hand head head-dress height Herod Herodotus hieratic hieroglyphics hundred Ibis inches inscription Jebel Barkal Jomard kind kings Leeds mummy legs linen male figure marked monuments mummy Nile Nubian pyramids observed ornamented Osiris painted papyrus passage picture piece placed plate Pliny portrait priests probably Ptolemy pyramids of Jizeh remarks represented rock Roman Rosellini round sacred animals sarcophagus says scarabæus sculptured seated second pyramid side specimens sphinx standing statues stone Strabo supposed symbols tablet temple Thebes tombs upper vessels vest word writing yellow