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and superficial layers of cloth were quite well preserved and free from 
corrosion, except along a line where the cloth was corroded to repre- 
sent the rima pudendi—a fact of great interest when it is recalled 
that in the Fifth and probably the Fourth Dynasties it was the custom 
to fashion (in the case of male mummies) an artificial phallus. 
The corrosion is presumptive evidence that some material (probably 
crude natron) was applied to the surface of the body with a view to 
its preservation. If so, this is the earliest body with unequivocal 
evidence of an attempt artificially to preserve or prevent decomposition 
in the soft tissues. 
9262 N. (?) Woman aged twenty years of age. The teeth are 
healthy and almost unworn. Cranial sutures all open, Small 
infantile face of characteristic Proto-Egyptian type. Broad pentagonoid 
Fig. 4. 
cranium and flat orbits. L.185, B. 142, F.B.83, H. 136, Biz. 124, 
T.F.105, U.F.63, Interorb. 215, R.O.389°5x30, L.0. 37x30, 
N. 48x23. 
2262 B.N. A small tormmb containing a man aged about forty years. 
Teeth extremely worn; right lower molar carious; severe alveolar 
abscesses in upper jaw; only a few stumps left. Typical Proto- 
Egyptian pentagonoides, shading into ovoides. Low, very slightly 
oblique orbits; narrow nose with high bridge, very sharp margin and 
prominent spine. Semitic curve of nasal bones. Mandible with widely 
splayed angles. The face as a whole, while Proto-Egyptian in type, 
has a suggestion of the criminal Blemmye type in jaw, nose, and 
orbits—? a Sinaitic Arab. Three lower incisors (two right and one 
left removed), left zygomatic arch fractured, and rejoined with inward 
