The statuettes, of which the best are Hellenistic and Alexandrian, were at first connected with funeral rites and later placed in the tomb from the sentiment that prompts us to drop flowers, especially when the dead person is young. They have mostly been found in the tombs of children and women. They are the loveliest things in the Museum. FACING ENTRANCE, and to right, (_Cases HH_ and _A_): Cinerary urns from Alexandria. LEFT WALL: _Case F_ (covered with curtain): Here are the masterpieces—27 statuettes of women. 1, 4, 7, 8, 12, 13, are the most beautiful perhaps—so delicate but so dignified. 1. is crowned with ivy and wears tiny earrings; the shape of her arm shown through the wrap that covers it. 7. carries her child. 12. with her little draped head is curiously impressive. _Case G_: 1. Child on his mother’s shoulder. _Case H_: 1. Child on a toy chariot, full of grapes and drawn by dogs. _Case I_: Caricatures. _Case L_: Moulds for terra cotta. _Case_ in corner, also _FF_: Fragments from Naucratis, the Greek predecessor of Alexandria in Egypt. RIGHT WALL: Terra cottas from the Fayoum—stupid and vulgar. DOWN THE CENTRE OF ROOM: Four mosaics from Canopus (p. 180); they probably decorated the Temple of Serapis there. ROOM 19. MISCELLANEOUS. IN ENTRANCE: Funerary urn still garlanded with artificial flowers. From Chatby. 3rd cent. B.C. CENTRE: Mosaic—the best geometrical mosaic in the museum. From Chatby. IN ANGLES OF ROOM: _Cases A, B, C, D_: Terra cottas from Kom es Chogafa. Note in _Case C, shelf b_, 1. Model of seven pots and a big jar—like doll’s furniture; and in _Case D_ some unamusing grotesques. Also in the angles of the octagon: _Cases I, II, III, IV_. Funerary furniture from Hadra. (p. 156). In _Case I_ are two beautiful objects; a blue enamel vase decorated with faces of Bes, Egyptian god of luck; and (_shelf b_, 2): Terra cotta statuette of a boy, who clings, laughing, to a term of Dionysus, and holds an apple in his hand. ROOM 20. CHATBY NECROPOLIS. (p. 164). Several painted tombstones. The best are protected by tinted glass, and better studied in the water-colour copies hanging above. LEFT OF ENTRANCE: 1. Isodora, a lady of Cyrene, with her child. 2. A young Macedonian officer, riding; his orderly runs behind holding the horse’s tail. Date 4th cent. B.C.—_i.e_. shortly after Alexander had founded the city. 10231: Boy and child. _Cases A and B_: Funerary furniture. In _Case B_ are some pretty terra cottas: 1, 2. Ladies sitting. 7, 8, 9. Schoolgirls at lessons. _Pedestal V_ (right wall): Tombstone of young man with a foot-stool and pet dog. CENTRE OF ROOM: Fine marble group, mutilated, of Dionysus and the Faun. Found near the demolished Porte Rosette. ROOM 21. IBRAHIMIEH NECROPOLIS. (p. 164).