BARBERINI OBELISK. Other designations for it are: Monte Pincio Obelisk, Veranian Obelisk, and the Obelisk della Passeggiata. It was cut in Egypt by order of Hadrian [A. D. 118-138] and erected in honor of Antinoüs, who drowned himself in the Nile in order to avert the fulfillment of an evil oracle from the emperor. Pope Urban VIII. (Barberini) found it broken in three pieces, and it was placed in its present position on the Monte Pincio in Rome by Pius VII. in 1822. It has two columns of hieroglyphs on each face. ^{9} BAST. The Egyptian lion-headed goddess of love, also called Pasht or Sekhet (which see). ^{92} B. C. An abbreviation for "Before (the birth of) Christ". BEJIJ. Also called Ebjij. A city in the western half of the XXIst nome of Upper Egypt, whose Egyptian name was [glyphs] HA-SEBEK, "_the home of the god Sebek_", the Crocodilopolis of the Greeks and Romans. ^{5 11} BEJIJ OBELISK. A prostrate and broken obelisk of Usertesen I. at Bejij in the Fayoom. It resembles more a stelé than an obelisk, as it has two large and two small faces and a rounded top, which is the usual form of a stelé. ^{11} BELZONI, Giovanni Battista. One of the most successful Egyptian explorers [died Dec. 3, 1823]. He was the first to penetrate the second large pyramid of Gizeh. ^{13} BENEVENTO. A city of Italy, north-east of Naples. Its Egyptian spelling on the obelisks erected by the emperor Domitian is [glyphs] BENEMTHESTI. ^{8 10} BENEVENTO OBELISKS. Two obelisks bearing the cartouche of the emperor Domitian [A. D. 81-96]. One of {104}them, having only a single column of hieroglyphs on each face, is erected in a public square, while the other is imbedded in the wall of a house in Benevento. The names of Domitian, Titus, and Lucilius Lupus appear in the inscriptions. ^{10} BENI-HASSAN. The present name of the place where the sepulchral grottoes of the XIIth dynasty were situated. These rock-tombs were in the XVIth nome of Upper Egypt, the most famous one of them being that of [glyphs] KHNUM-HOTEP. ^{89} BERSHEH. The modern name of a place in the XVth nome of Upper Egypt, the site of many rock-tombs. ^{15 89} BOBOLI GARDENS OBELISK. A small obelisk at present in the Boboli Gardens at Florence, Italy. It was probably erected in Heliopolis by Ramses II. and removed to Rome by the emperor Claudius [A. D. 41-54]. How it got to Florence is not known. ^{10} BONOMI, Joseph. An English Egyptologist [died 1808]. ^{11} BOOK OF THE DEAD. Also called the Egyptian Ritual. A collection of chapters treating of the future state of the blessed in the realm of eternal life. It is also in part a catechism with questions and answers. Innumerable copies of it have been found written on papyrus and linen, some of them displaying beautifully executed pictures and vignettes. The first complete copy (of Turin, Italy) was published by Lepsius in 1842, the last by Naville in 1886. ^{33 34}