712 REPORT—1904. 
e. Small ivory tablet of (?) Bauz (sign of three birds not identified), with the 
number 1400 on the obverse (complete). 
d, A fragment of the original tablet of Mena discovered by De Morgan. The 
new piece practically completes the whole, to which it has been joined in the 
museum of Cairo. 
e. A smaller replica in ivory of the same tablet (d), which is wanting in the 
upper right corner the group which contains the MEN-sign, identified by some 
with Mena, but is complete and entire elsewhere, and thus enables the whole tablet 
to be restored. 
The important historical facts learnt from this excavation are two: 
i. The association of the names of Narmer, Neith-hetep, and Aha (possibly 
Mena). 
ii, The archeological evidence that the tomb certainly belongs to the period of 
the beginning of the First Dynasty or the close of the pre-dynastic period. From the 
character of the objects found within it there is no reason to suppose that it is of 
a later or mixed date, 
Summing up, the tomb belongs to the period of the traditional Mena, first 
king of Egypt. It contains chietly the name of Aha, which is identified with 
a Mena from the tablet of De Morgan. In lack of rival claims, considering, too, 
the abundance of material for these times recovered by Petrie and others, it may 
be believed on present evidence that Aha was the Mena of tradition. This 
being so, if Aka was buried at Abydos, as suggested by Petrie’s discoveries there, 
then it is probable that the tomb at Negadeh was that of Necth-hetey, whom circum- 
stantial evidence points to as the queen-mother of Mena. The inscriptions bearing 
this name are particularly plentiful, and the objects dedicated to her of special 
uality. 
The objects discovered in this excavation not retained by the Cairo Museum, 
excluding tablets a, b, c, d, but including e, have been presented by a member of 
the Committee to the Museum of Egyptian Archxology in the University of 
Liverpool. The tablets a, 6, c, and the fish of ivory are in the MacGregor Collec- 
tion. 
6. On an Interment of the Early Iron Age found at Moredun, near 
Edinburgh. By ¥. R. Cores and T. H. Bryce, ID. 
The present example is the first completely attested instance of an inter- 
ment associated with relics of the Early Iron Age in Scotland. It was discovered. 
in August 1903 at Moredun, near Edinburgh. The remains were contained in a 
cist, 4 feet long by 2 feet 3 inches wide and 22 inches deep, covered by several 
flagstones of varying size. 
The associated relics were a fibula of La Téne type, which showed a fragment 
of some loosely woven fabric in the catch; a ring brooch or buckle; and a circular 
open pin-head without ornamentation. The stem of the pin is bent at right 
angles to the head. Such objects are very rare in Scotland. Pins of this variety 
in iron and bronze have been found in brochs, in Forfar and Caithness, and in the 
refuse heap at a fort in Argyleshire. It must be considered earlier than another 
variety with flat head enamelled in colours with ‘late Celtic’ ornament. As it 
has been found associated with pieces of Samian ware and Roman denarii of the 
latter part of the second century A.D., and, further, as the fibula is a simple form from 
a late La Téne type widely diffused on the Continent at the end of the first century, 
the interment can scarcely be earlier than some time in the second century A.D. 
The osseous remains are those of two individuals placed in the doubled-up posi- 
tion, one above the other, with the heads to opposite ends of the cists, but faces 
in the same direction. One was a young adult, the other an adolescent of about 
twenty-one years of age. The sex, owing to the fragmentary state of the bones, 
could not be determined with certainty; probably both were female. The stature 
of the adult was about 5 feet 53 inches, The following are such measurements 
