official, and his wife in Bay 18, No. =565= (see =Plate XXXVII=). This monument is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful examples of Egyptian sculpture in the British Museum. Here, too, must be noted a very rare object, viz., a =complete wooden door=, from the tomb of =Khensu-ḥetep= at Thebes, on which is cut a scene representing the deceased making offerings to Osiris-Khenti-Ȧmenti, in the presence of Hathor, lady of Ȧmentet (Vestibule, North Wall, No. =566=). Nineteenth Dynasty. From Thebes. _About_ B.C. 1370. =Rameses I=, the first king of this dynasty, appears to have ascended the throne when he was an elderly man. He made an attempt to enter into friendly relations with Sapalul, the chief of the Kheta, or Hittites; and he seems to have raided the Sûdân. Monuments of his reign are few (see the =scarabs= inscribed with his name in Table-case D in the Fourth Egyptian Room). The early years of the reign of =Seti I=, the son and successor of Rameses I, were spent in fighting. He attacked the Shasu, or nomad tribes of the Eastern Desert and of Palestine and Syria, and defeated them with great slaughter, and advanced to the city of Kadesh, on the Orontes, and conquered it. He returned to Egypt laden with spoil, including cedar wood from Lebanon for making a new barge for Ȧmen-Rā at Thebes. He made raids in the Sûdân, and forced the natives to assist him in reworking the old gold mines and opening up new ones. He reopened the copper mines in Sinai, and all the large quarries, for he needed much stone for his buildings. He began to build a great temple at Abydos, but did not live to finish it: the walls and pillars are ornamented with religious scenes and figures of the gods, and the sculptures and reliefs are among the most beautiful of Egypt. In one of the corridors is the famous King List, or =Tablet of Abydos=, which contains the names of 76 kings, the first name being that of Menȧ or Menes. At Karnak he added 79 columns to the =Hall of Columns= (see =Plate XXX=); at Ḳurnah (Thebes) he finished the temple begun by his father Rameses I; and he built a splendid tomb in the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings (see page 174). From this tomb came his magnificent alabaster =sarcophagus= which is now preserved in Sir John Soane’s Museum in Lincoln’s Inn Fields. Seti I built a temple at Dulgo, near the Third Cataract, probably in connexion with the gold trade carried on by the government; he opened up roads to the gold deposits in the Wâdî Ulâḳî, in the Eastern Desert; and he built a temple at Radassîyah on the old caravan road which ran from Edfû to the emerald mines of Gebel Zâbarâ, near Berenice, on the Red Sea; and dug wells at many places in the desert. His reign was comparatively short, 10 or 15 years at most, and he was succeeded by his second son Rameses II, whom he had made co-regent. Among the monuments of his reign are: Large =wooden Ka-figure of Seti I=, found in a chamber in his tomb (Central Saloon, No.