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Hor, who is the first o£ his séries. Although M. Fouquet gives 
somewhat detailed account of the nasal cavity o£ King Hor (p. 149) 
he does not make an}' référence to any break in the roof or in 
fact in any part of the nose. 
In the case of the Princess ISToub Hotep the ethnioid is certainly 
broken, but as the sknll is damaged we cannot attach much im- 
portance to the fact that such a fragile bone as the ethmoid is not 
intact, especially when there is no sign of the break having baen 
intentional, no ronnding of its edges and no trace of any material 
having been pushed throngh the nose into the craniuni. 
ïhe ethmoid and in fact the whole nasal skeleton is perfectiy 
intact in the crania of Itaourt and Khnoumit. In the cranium of 
Ita the ethmoid is broken, but as in the case of Noub Hotep there 
is no reason for believing that it is due to any procédure for 
embalming purposes. 
Of the seven crania in this collection one, certainly belonging 
to the Graeco- Roman period, lias had its ethmoid deliberately 
broken throngh for the purpose of removing the brain and filling 
the cranium with bitumen : of the other six, four have the 
ethmoid perfectiy intact and in the other two it is broken. It is 
unlikely that the embalmers should have broken into the cranium 
in two cases and not attempted to do so in the other members of 
the same séries. 
In the cranium of King Hor the nasal septum and the sphenoid 
bone were broken (when the spécimen came into my possess- 
ion) leaving a free passage into the cranium. This, however, 
seems to have been done after M. Fouquet examined the cranium, 
because he describes the septum and does not refer to any opening 
in the sphenoid. 
From the cranial cavity I obtained seven flakes (each about 1 cm, 
in diameter) of a shining mud-coloured material, whicli proved 
to be resin closely resembling that obtained from the Canopic Jars 
