or genii.  The inscription below, in the vulgar character of the ancient Egyptians, is supposed to begin with the sixth year of Cleopatra.  Near these tablets is one in dark granite, of a date before the twelfth dynasty (187) in honour of Mentu-hept, a superintendent of granaries and wardrobes.  The next tablet to which the visitor’s attention should be directed, is one crowded with symbolic animals and deities (191).  It is that of a functionary named Kaha, who is adoring Chiun, standing on a lion, and grasping snakes, with Horus and other deities.  Asi, a military chief and priest of a very remote period, is represented on the next tablet (192), with food before him, and the next (193) is that found before the great sphinx at Gizeh.  On it the sun is represented, and a Greek inscription tells that it was erected in the time of Nero, by the inhabitants of Busiris to the Roman governor of Egypt, Tiberius Claudius Balbillus.  The next tablet (194) is that discovered by Belzoni, near the temple of Karnak, on which a line of adoring deities are represented.  The tablets marked 548, 9, 51 have no particular points of interest; the visitor may therefore at once pass to the group, most of which are coloured yellow, and are elaborately embellished, marked from 555 to 598.  The first of these worth especial notice is that (555) of a Theban judge of the eighteenth dynasty.  It is coloured yellow and the deceased is represented with the boat and the sun’s disc above, and in company with his sister adoring the cow of Athor; the second (566) is in the form of a doorway, is of the nineteenth dynasty, is coloured, and is in honour of a conductor of the festival of Amen-ra; the third and fourth (557-8) are of earlier date, or the twelfth dynasty, and represent the deceased before tables of viands; the fifth tablet (560) is in honour of Her-chen, who is represented with his relations, and Phtah-kan, a scribe, also represented and similarly attended, all well finished and coloured; the three following tablets represent the deceased before tables of viands, coloured; the next (564) is that of the keeper of the treasury, or “silver abode,” in the twelfth dynasty—­he too is before a table of food in company with his relations; the next remarkable specimen is that marked 569, which is in honour of Athor-si, a functionary supposed to have been the superintendent of mines in the twelfth dynasty, who is here represented in one part before a table loaded with food, and in another part seated, with his hands humbly crossed upon his breast; the next tablets presenting particular points for remark are those of Eun-necht, (575) a superintendent of corn and clothing, of the twelfth dynasty.  Senatef, chief of the palace to Amen-emha II., who is represented receiving a goose, a haunch, and other food from his relations.  Eunentef, a chief and his son standing face to face, bearing wands and sceptres—­a sculptor named User-ur, who is represented with his wives and parents, and upon which the square red lines