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in the interior of a mummy case dating 

 from the twenty-sixth dynasty (700-500 

 B.C.), now preserved in the City Museum of 

 Gloucester. A brief description of it is 

 given in Vol. II (1911), of the Historical 

 Studies published by the British School of 

 Archaeology in Egypt, and this is accom- 

 panied by a photograph of the original, 

 which has been copied in the annexed figure. 

 Certain of the details are thus indicated 

 in the description just referred to: "The 



greater part of the Hippocampus is outlined 

 in black on the white ground of the coffin; 

 the ears, the eyes, the nostril and the mane 

 [i.e., conventionalized dorsal fin] are indi- 

 cated in black; round the jaw is a wide 

 black band edged vnth yellow ; the muzzle is 

 yellow Avith black dots; the wide horizontal 

 stripes on the neck are alternately blue and 

 red edged with black. . . . The date of the 

 coffin accords well with the period of the 

 archaic Athenian pediments. " 



Decorative painting of the Hippocampus, from the interior of an Egyptian mummy case dating from 

 the twenty-sixth dynasty (700—500 B.C.), now preserved in the City Museum of Gloucester 



