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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 5§ 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. 
The peculiar application of the various forms of these 
objects is not easy of solution; some, however, appear 
in the hieroglyphic texts to have been appropriated to 
particular substances,—as wax, wine, liquids, &c. The 
smaller and more elegant are supposed to have held un¬ 
guents, perfumes, &c., for the toilet; the larger and 
coarser, domestic objects, as wine, eatables, &c., or to 
have been for preserving and mixing liquids ; others 
again contain varnish, bitumen, &c. The materials of 
which they are fabricated are chiefly basalt, serpentine, 
arragonite, or oriental alabaster, various kinds of clays 
baked, a thoroughly vitrified brilliant porcelain, and 
glazed terracotta. The pottery is occasionally painted 
when unglazed. The prevailing colours of the glazing 
are red, blue, and green. The delineation of subjects on 
these vases is exceedingly rare ; some few r have inscrip¬ 
tions. The following appear most worthy of remark : 
Case N. Div. \ .—Arragonite. Large vase, the neck 
broken off, inscribed in front with the prenomen and 
name of Thutmes or Thothmes III. (Moeris.) Another 
has the name of a different king, (vid. Rosellini, Tom. n. 
App. Tav. xv. 12.) 1 ft. lj to 8j in. h. 
Arragonite. Two vases, one having in front the 
prenomen Merenre, of an unplaced king prior to the 
xvi. dynasty, with the standard and titles of the same 
