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Excerpt from A Guide to the Egyptian Galleries (Sculpture): With 39 Plates and 46 Illustrations in the Text This Guide contains descriptions of the Egyptian Sculptures and other Egyptian Antiquities which are exhibited on the Ground Floor, in a series of Galleries extending from north to south on the west side of the British Museum. The arrangement is, as far as possible, chronological. The monuments of the Ancient Empire arc placed chiefly in the Vestibule; those of the Middle Empire will be found in the Northern Gallery and Central Saloon; and in the Southern Gallery arc the Antiquities of the New Empire, and of the Saite, Ptolemaic, Roman and Christian Periods. For convenience of reference the monuments have been renumbered consecutively with numbers painted in the top centre of the plinths and frames. The old numbers are in the left-hand lower corners. Indexes to the two sets of numbers will be found on pp. 307 ff. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.