60 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



110. A large painted earthenware vase. Late Period. 

 From Nubia. 



V. — 1. A terra-cotta mould for making figures of a Ptole- 

 maic or Roman Pharaoh, in tlie character of the 

 Physician-god Imhetep, accompanied by his two 

 apes, Thoth and Asten (or, Astes). 

 vi. A large and interesting collection of Romano- 



Egyptian and Meroitic antiquities, and a collection 

 of miscellaneous predynastic antiquities, exca- 

 vated chiefly on the Island of Faras, which seems 

 to have been the frontier outpost of Egypt on 

 the south. The following are the most character- 

 istic objects in the collections : — 



I. Antiquities from a Protodynastic Cemetery consisting of 



objects from, eleven tomh-groups, viz. : — 



Ostrich-egg. 



Specimens of plain and painted pottery. 



A spotted red and buff bowl : Egyptian predynastic. 



Three quartz palettes, and pebbles for grinding paint. 



Several strings of beads ; shell, carnelian, and garnet. 



Bronze chisel : edge found resting on skull and pointing 



behind head. 

 Bronze celt : found in front. of face. 

 Tall pot : Egyptian early dynastic. 

 Upper and lower grindstone : granite. 

 Blue glaze beads : Egyptian. 

 Two bronze piercers : one with ivory handle. 

 Fragments of ivory and shell bracelets. 



II. Antiquities from a " C-Group " Cemetery : Xllth Dynasty : 



Nineteen bowls and pots of black and red incised pottery ; 



designs often filled with white. 

 Seven strings of glazed and coloured crystal beads, fee. : 



one with a carnelian foot-amulet. 

 Tomb-group consisting of a black-topped bowl, a black 



incised bowl, a red pot, a white pot, and a grindstone. 

 Bronze mirror. 

 One stone bracelet. 



One shell bracelet and two shell finger-rings. 

 Bone needle. 



Ill Antiquities from, the Hathor temple : XVIIIth Dynasty : 



Four fragments of a blue glaze decorated bowl. 



One striped blue glaze ball. 



Two blue glaze votive ears. 



Blue glaze figure of Taurt. 



Three blue glaze small female figures. 



One similar figure, brown and blue. 



Three blue glaze imitation fruits. 



One pottery cow. 



