EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES, 
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ROOM.] 
a column of cane. On each is a small duck, trussed; and 
on the bottom circular cakes of bread. 8^ in. h., 9\ in. 
b., 6 in. dr. Private tomb at Thebes. 
Basket containing the fruit of the doum palm, pome¬ 
granates, &c. 8 in. h. 
Smaller basket wove in with colours, which has held 
fruit of the doum palm. 3\ in. h. 
Small elliptical basket which held fruit. 5 in. h., 
7\ in. b. 
Fruits of the doum and date palm, fig, grape vine, 
earthamus, heglyg (persea), nebbek, ricinus, and pome¬ 
granate ; wheat; barley; tares. 
Flat circular, square, triangular, &c., cakes of bread or 
biscuits, the top of one stamped ; some apparently made of 
barley. 6 in. 1. 
Div. 3 .—Horn of a cow or ox. 
Rolls of prepared leather, of a maroon red colour. 1 
ft. 3 in. to 7 in. 1. 
Bitumen, and materials with which the mummies are 
embalmed. 
Fragments of leaves of the papyrus, from a box or 
basket. 
Roll of fibres of palm leaves or cane. 
Iron. Blade of a sickle, fractured in three pieces, 
completely oxydized throughout. Traces of the wooden 
handle into which it has been fitted are visible upon the 
end. 11 in. dr. Found by Belzoni under a statue at 
Karnak. 
Wood. Pick-axe used in agriculture, of a single piece. 
2 ft. 1. 
Wood. Hoe, consisting of a handle into which is in¬ 
serted a broad blade placed at an acute angle, and fast¬ 
ened by a cord of fibres of the palm. 1 ft. 10 in. h. 
Acacia wood. Yoke or pole with a knob at each end, 
to retain the leather strap, which is stamped with concen¬ 
tric ornaments. 3 ft. 6 in. 1. 
Wood. Eight steps of rough wood from a rope ladder; 
rope of the same ladder made of fibres of the palm ; found 
in the tomb of Menephtah I. 1 ft. 6 in. 1. 
Div. 4.— Calcareous stone. Fragments from the tomb 
of Menephtah I. (Akencheres), 12th king of the xvm. 
dynasty. In front is the arm and anterior portion of the 
