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Bronze. Mirrors, without handles. 6J to 4 in. dr. 
Bronze. Circular mirror, in form of a box with cover 
in. dr. 
Basalt, arragonite. Vases for stibium. 4j to 1J in. h. 
Calcareous stone, fyc. Covers from similar vases. 
Basalt. Vase for stibium, held by a kneeling youth, 
shorn, with a single braided tress of hair from the crown, 
and wearing a long garment and belt round the loins. 
3| in. h. 
Green 'porcelain. Vase for stibium, having in open 
work round the body, a frieze of nofre, feathers, and 
other symbols: the foot broken. 2f in. h. Memphis. 
Bronze, wood, tyc. Pins, for laying the pigment on 
the eyelids and brows, or used as hair pins; one termi¬ 
nates in hematite. 6 to 3j in. 1. 
Bronze, wood, hone, fyc. Similar pins having a bulb at 
one end only. to 2| in. 1. 
Arragonite , ivory , fyc. Pins,&c., for the hair. 
Wood. Combs ; one with a double row of teeth, another 
has the back terminating in the head of a cow. 4g to 
in. 1. 
Wood. Fragments of similar combs. 
Div. 4.— Leather , palm leaves, papyrus, wood . San¬ 
dals of various forms and sizes. 
Leather , palm leaves. Sandals with high sides, ap¬ 
proaching to the form of a shoe, with peaked toes; these 
sandals are provided with ankle and fore-straps. 
Leather. Shoes with round toes, red and green, most 
of them for children ; they were found in the basket on 
shelf I. in this Case, and are provided with ankle and 
fore straps, like sandals, but are probably of a later epoch. 
Shoes of similar shape are depicted on the covering of 
the mummy of a child [in Case B B.] of the Roman 
era. 7| to 5f in. 1. 
Leather. Shoes similar to the preceding, of coarser 
work and stouter material; one is of a late epoch, orna¬ 
mented with stitched and cut ornaments, with eyelet holes 
behind for a lace, which has been fixed round the foot 
to a tongue on the ankle. 10 to 9 in. 1. 
CASES N to T. VASES. 
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