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serted, that some of the mummy-cases are made of this wood : a point 

 on which I am unprepared to offer an opinion. — Birdlime is said to 

 be procured from the Cordia myxa ; and according to some authorities, 

 is mentioned in Amos iii. 5. 



Living plants in pots, perhaps the Crocus, are carried by a third 

 set of delegates. These wear the simple cincture, denoting a warm 

 climate ; but manifest a taste for the fine arts, and we are again 

 reminded of Asiatic Greeks. — The Crocus is mentioned by Homer, and 

 by Pliny xxi. 17 ; and several species of this flower are known to be 

 indigenous in Greece. 



Strings of beads, apparently for rosaries or prayer-beads, are brought 

 by delegates in this Tribute-procession. 



Baskets of a blue pigment resembling indigo, are figured in this 

 Tribute-procession: possibly the "blue earth" known to be procured 

 in mines in the Valley of the Euphrates. The question could pro- 

 bably be settled by a chemical analysis of the ancient Egyptian pig- 

 ments. 



According to Champollion-Figeac (Eg. Ana, p. 208), rings of silver 

 are figured in this Tribute-procession. — Silver is mentioned in the 

 Books of Moses, and by Homer ; and the mummy recently unrolled at 

 London (of the time of perhaps the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty), "con- 

 tained a silver plate." 



According to Champollion-Figeac, Amenatep II., the second king 

 of the Eighteenth Dynasty, continued the temples at Karnac and in 

 Nubia, and erected new ones at Bigeh and Kalabsheh. His name has 

 been discovered in a cave-temple at Ibrim ; also, at Sarbut-el-Khadem, 

 in the Sinai Peninsula : and a colossal statue of this king is now in 

 the Museum at Turin. 



Tetmes IV., the third king of the Eighteenth Dynasty, completed 

 the temple at Amada ; made additions to those at Wadi Haifa and 

 Thebes ; and set up obelisks (one of which is now at Rome). An in- 

 scription at Philae, dated in the seventh year of his reign, records a 

 victory over the Lybians : and a stela, also dated in his reign, was 

 found in front of the Great Sphinx at Gizeh (Lepsius, III. PI. 68). 



Branches of myrtle (Myrtus communis) carried by females, are 

 figured on monuments of about this period (Rosselini, II. 99). — The 

 myrtle is clearly a Tropical plant, introduced into the Mediterranean 

 countries : Pliny speaks of it as a stranger to Italy ; mentioning, however, 

 the recorded fact, That a stock was found growing on the site selected 



