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the purpose of chastisement, or whether it is intended to represent 
the performance of some magic ceremony. The finger which is 
raised towards the lips of this figure seems rather to be indicative of 
imposing silence than of conveying admonition ; and the arm and 
hand of the person kneeling appear to be more expressive of vene- 
ration or submission, than of either alarm or supphcation. There is 
a curious appearance on the head of this figure which somewhat 
resembles in form the twisted lock of the Egyptian Horus, but its 
colour is decidedly red, while that of the other parts of the head 
are uncertain. The lower part of this figure has been so much 
rubbed as to be nearly unintelligible, and the face has disappeared 
altogether. A similar accident has happened to one of the preceding 
figures, the lower part of which is not now distinguishable. In the 
third group we see a female figure with a helmet closely fitted to 
the shape of the head, bearing on her shoulder an ark, or canis- 
trum ; a second female, attired in white, is represented walking, and 
looking back towards the other, whom she is beckoning to advance. 
The folds of the white drapery have nearly disappeared, and little 
more is left of it than the outline. The helmet of the first-mentioned 
figure of this group is painted red, and the back part of it, with a 
portion of the arm, is rubbed out. The fourth design represents a 
young man asleep, and a matron apparently watching over him, who 
appears, from her countenance and action, as well as from the gar- 
ment which is thrown over her head, to be labouring under some 
affliction. In the fifth we observe a female figure sitting, and appa- 
rently employed in spinning ; by her side is a youth of ten or twelve 
