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inscription are eight divisions, representing Osiris, Horus, 
Nephthys, Isis, two Utchats and Uraii', or sacred serpents, with 
standards of Amend (the abode of the dead faces). The side of 
the coffin are also decorated. On the right face are, Ptah-Sekari, 
Thoth and Osiris seated on a throne in the presence of Amset, 
Tuamantef, Kebhsenuf. the deceased worshipping Osiris and 
the four genii of the dead (Amset, Hapi, Tuamantef, and 
Kebhsenuf). On the left face are the standard of Ptah-Sekari, 
Thoth, Ptah-Socharis. and the deceased adoring Osiris, follow- 
ed by three genii of the the dead. On the bottom of the coffin 
(inside) is a figure of Athor, the lady of the West. 
The coffin was found at Der-el-Bahari, and is of the 
XXIst Dynasty, or about B.C. 1000. This interesting relic 
was presented to Mr. Horniman by the Committee of the Egypt 
Exploration Fund. 
PALEOLITHIC CHERT IMPLEMENTS. 
The three implements here represented (selected from eight in 
the Museum collection) were found last march at Broom, in the 
valley of the Axe, in the parish of Hawkchurch, near Axminster ; 
their exact location being in a gravel pit near Chard Junction. 
They are particulary curious and interesting, because no palaeo- 
lithic implements have as yet been discovered further west in 
Britain, so that they are the oldest work of man known to this 
country. The centre tongue-shaped implement is 8|-ins.in length 
and \\ ins. in breadth at its butt end. It is beautifully chipped 
into shape, and furnishes a very fine specimen. The other two 
are termed Oval implements, and are similar in form to the 
remaining five. 
ANCIENT PHOENICIAN GLASS. 
The specimens forming this Collection were mostly found in 
1894, i n tombs on Mount Carmel, Tyre, the Jordan Valley, and 
to the east of the latter (the land of Bashan). They are all fine 
examples, and perfect in preservation. 
Some of the bottles are formed of what is called clear glass, 
though really of a greenish or bluish hue. The beautiful 
iridescence which many of the vases and bottles exhibit is not 
intentionally produced, but is the effect of time, which has 
partially decomposed the surface of the glass, which, if the article be 
not handled with very great care, flakes off. In fact, through the 
lapse of so many centuries, the glass has sometimes so foliated 
that it has become thin and fragile enough to actually collapse 
