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and seals of mere gold,* or silver, or bronze, or lapis lazuli, or 
other precious stones, are not so numerous. To another class 
of signet-stones belong nhndrainaiar plates of porcelain or 
stone, commonly engraved on both sides, dad set in —o 
way. Further, for the sealing of betelchy the 
many specimens in Dr. Abbott’s Museum show, used burned 
cones of red clay from six to twelve inches high, bearing an 
inscription on their ome a there are stamps, both ob- 
long or elliptic, copper or wooden, from two to four ini 
length, with a ring on the Ant side and sera ec opposite, 
which were, as many monuments show, worn on a cord de- 
pending from the neck. Seals of that description ian repre- 
sented in many Egyptian monuments, e. g. in the copper coin 
of the year 1570 B. C., and in all Egyptian texts, because io 
figure of the seal was one of the hieroglyphic letters.t — 
To the last order of seals is to be referred a wooden stamp, 
in Dr. Abbott's Museum, of which the following is an exact 
copy, made after some ere in common ooh: sealing- 
= —_ mc fe a Leanne of} mine ' 
£8 The stamnp is 2inches’ 81k 
Seda lines wide, and 1 jane 1g 
