_Case_ in entrance: Wreaths of artificial flowers. Ugly really, but one is impressed by their being so old. Double flute of ivory. _Case_ in centre: Mummied birds from Aboukir (p. 180). _Cases D_ and _F_: From Ibrahimieh. _Case D._ Inscription in Aramaic—one of the few relics of the early Jewish settlement at Alexandria (p. 62); some more are on the floor. Date 3rd cent. B.C. _Case F_ (right wall) Cinerary urns. Groups in painted piaster of the phallic Min (whom the Greeks identified with Pan), Hercules, Horus, etc. ROOM 22. CANOPUS. (p. 180). Disappointing; better work than this tenth rate Hellenistic stuff must have existed at the great shrine. LEFT WALL: 1-3:. Inscriptions of historical interest: they mention Serapis and Isis, the deities of the place, and the Ptolemies Philadelphus and Euergetes. BACK WALL: in cases, sculptures and terra cottas. RIGHT WALL: Stucco-coated columns from the Temple of Serapis; others have been left in place. CENTRE: Mosaic from Alexandria. ROOM 22A. FRESCOES. RIGHT OF DOOR: Three pagan frescoes, connected with crocodile worship (_see_ Room 7 and North Garden). From Temple of Petesouchos, Fayoum. Date 2nd cent. A.D. Thank offerings to the god from Heron Soubathos, an officer: 1. He stands. 2. He rides. REST OF ROOM: Christian frescoes of great interest, from crypt discovered in the desert beyond Lake Mariout. Date 5th cent. A.D. A staircase led down to a square room. 1 and 2 are from the ceiling of this room; from its walls come—3 St. Menas standing between camels—4 and 5 the Annunciation. A passage led to a smaller room; on its vault was 6 Head of Christ. In this smaller room were 7 and 8. Out of it opened a little niche at the end of which was 9 a saint in prayer among the scenery of paradise. VERANDAH AND GARDENS. LARGE EXHIBITS. IN THE MIDDLE OF THE VERANDAH: Colossal headless statue of Hercules. NORTH GARDEN: Left—Gateways and shrine of the _Temple of Petesouchos_, crocodile god of the Fayoum (_see_ Room 9 for further details). The first gateway is the entrance Pylon, over which is a Greek inscription dating the temple to B.C. 137. The wooden door in Room 9 belonged here. On each side of the gateway are lions. It led to a brick courtyard, in which was a Nilometer. The court was closed by the second gateway, which is flanked by sphinxes, and led to a second and similar court. Then comes the third gate, and, closing the perspective, the shrine. The shrine has three cavities, in each of which lurked a mummied crocodile upon a wooden stretcher (_see_ Room 9). In the left cavity is the fresco of a crocodile; in the central the fresco of a god with a crocodile’s head between two other deities. Over the cavities are several decorative friezes—one of snakes. The outside of the shrine is also frescoed to imitate marble. In front of it was found a wooden chest (Room 9).