A guide to the first and second Egyptian rooms : predynastic antiquities, mummies, mummy-cases, and other objects connected with the funeral rites of the ancient Egyptians
A guide issued by the British Museum's Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities in London in 1904, written for visitors to the first and second Egyptian rooms and covering predynastic objects, mummies and mummy-cases. The plates show halftone photographs of anthropoid coffins and a mummy, each captioned with its museum number and dynasty. A designer could take the stone and painted wood surfaces, with their hieroglyphic bands, gilded faces and tight vertical columns of decoration, as references for ancient Egyptian ornament.
