as known to the Egyptians. 119 



have ex cited greater curiosity and surprise, than those of Chinese 

 manufacture, presenting inscriptions in that language. The 

 accidental discovery of a single bottle of this kind would na- 

 turally pass unheeded ; and if we felt surprised that it should 

 be deposited in an Egyptian sepulchre, conjecture would rea- 

 sonably suggest that an accidental visitor in later times might 

 have dropped it there, while searching for ancient treasures of 

 a more valuable kind. But this explanation ceases to be ad- 

 missible, when we find the same have been discovered in vari- 

 ous Theban tombs. I myself have seen several, two of which 

 I brought to England :* another is described by the learned 

 Professor Rosellini,t and found by him " in a previously un- 

 opened tomb, of uncertain date, Mrliich,'' he refers, " from the 



fig.l. 



3. 4. 



Chinese bottles found in the Egyptian tombs. 

 Fig. 1, in the Museum of Alnwick Castle. 



2, brought by me from Thebes. 



3, belonging to Mr "W. Hamilton, 



4, in my possession. From Thebes. 



* One is in the British Museum, the other in my possession. 



t In his extensive work on the F.gyptian Monuments, part 2, yoL it p. 337. 



