LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOLUME I.
 

Head of a portrait statue of Ptolemy XIII (?)   ......    Frontispiece

The Elysian Fields.    From a painted coffin from

Al-Barshah        ...............To face page     92

Gravestone of Muhammad, son of 'Ub^d Allah,

with Kufi inscription............             „              57

Gravestone of Barakah, the daughter of Husen,

with Kufi inscription............             ,,              gg

Monolithic shrine dedicated to Horus of Philae by

Ptolemy IX and Cleopatra     .........             ,,             102

Semicircular engraved ivory amulet of the lady
Seneb      ..................
 

Wooden tablets of the waxen book inscribed with
documents written with the stilus in tachy-
graphic symbols, and a few memoranda in
Greek     ..................

Painted funerary stele of Sebek-hetep     ......

Chapter and vignette from the Papyrus of Nu   ...

Letter from Tushratta, King of Mitani, to Amen-
hetep III, King of Egypt       .........

Portrait figure of Herua, a high official, wearing
festal gold ornaments.........

The Creek at Basrah           ............

The Tomb of Ezra...............

The Arch of Ctesiphon in its present state

The Arch of Ctesiphon. (From a drawing by
Flandin)..................

The Custom House at Baghdad    .........

The Courtyard and Mosque of Sh^kh 'Abd al-
Kadar    ..................

The minaret of the Mosque of Jama' al-Ghazl   ...

The Tomb of Shekh Ma'ruf in Western Baghdad

Plan of Baghdad by Tavernier      .........

Plan of Baghdad by Niebuhr        .........
 

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