murdered by Cleopatra’s orders in B.C. 45, and =Ptolemy XVI, Caesarion=, son of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra, was named co-regent in his stead. After the defeat of =Antony= by Octavianus and the death of Antony and Cleopatra, =Egypt became a Roman Province, B.C. 30=. The Egyptian antiquities of the Ptolemaïc Period in the British Museum consist chiefly of =Stelae= inscribed with funerary texts; they are comparatively small in size, and are painted in bright colours. The reliefs, in which the figures of the gods are represented, are delicately cut, and the hieroglyphics have the slender form which is one of the chief characteristics of the inscriptions of the period. The texts often contain the ages of the deceased persons, and details concerning the length of time occupied in the process of mummification, which are wholly wanting in the funerary monuments of an earlier period. Among the gods mentioned on the stelae is =Serapis=, who represents a fusion of the old Egyptian gods, Osiris and Apis. (For figures of this god in terra-cotta see Table-case M in the Fourth Egyptian Room.) The =stone coffins= of the period are in the form of a mummy, and are usually carefully cut and finished. We have already seen that two important edicts of the priests of Memphis and Canopus were cut on stelae in two forms of Egyptian writing, viz., hieroglyphic and demotic, and in Greek; there are also several examples of funerary monuments in the British Museum in which the hieroglyphic text is followed by a rendering in demotic and Greek. In the case of small objects, _e.g._, mummy labels, the inscriptions are in demotic and Greek only. [Illustration: Limestone window with mullions in the form of pillars with Hathor-headed capitals. From the temple at Denderah. Ptolemaïc Period. [Southern Egyptian Gallery, Bay 25, No. 972.]]