268 GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. [EGYPTIAN 
Reed from between the bricks of the walls of Sais. 1 
ft. 1 in. 1. Presented by the same. 
Fragments of plaster, with a flower painted in fresco. 
Presented by the same. 
Fragment of stucco, imitating syenite. 5 in. 1. Pre¬ 
sented by the same. 
Wood. Smoothing tools ; one has its own figure en¬ 
graved on it. 9| in. 1., in. 1., 2\ in. h. 
Wood , Cylindrical box containing stucco. 4 in. h., 
4 in. dr. 
Brushes for colouring walls, made of fibres of palm 
leaves. 7 to 5\ in. 1. 
Wood. Part of a stamp for bricks, with incuse hiero¬ 
glyphics, relating to a temple of Phtah. 8 in. 1. 
CASE z. BASKETS, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, PLAYTHINGS, 
WEAVING TOOLS, ETC. 
Div. \.—Palm leaves. Oval, and circular baskets, 
covers, &c., made of the fibres of the palm tree, exhibit¬ 
ing various kinds of basket-making, some worked in 
ornamentally with colours. 1 ft. 3 in. dr., 9 in. h., to 6 
in. dr., 3 in. h. 
Div. 2. — Bronze. Sistrum ; the handle cylindrical, 
with the head of Atlior on each side, full faced, cow¬ 
eared, and surmounted by a cornice flanked by uraei 
with the otf, one of which is lost; at the top the full- 
faced head of the terrestrial Athor, placed on the symbol 
of resplendence, between disk-bearing lion-headed uraei 
and vultures holding signets in their claws; at the sides 
are the lion-headed deity Pasht-Merephtah, one of the 
types of Athor, seated in a naos, and the female god¬ 
desses attached to the upper and lower regions, holding 
in each hand a sistrum. These subjects are in outline, 
and are supposed to be stamped. There are three per¬ 
forations for wires. 1 ft. 4j in. h. Temple of the 
Western lake , Karnak. 
Bronze. Cylindrical handle of a sistrum, surmounted 
by the aegis of Athor; at the sides of the head, uraei in 
the shaa and teshr; on the top a lion, seated. 8g in. h. 
Silver , bronze. Sistra of a later epoch, with three or 
four horizontal bars or w 7 ires, the ends generally ter¬ 
minating in the head of a goose reflexed ; one is pecu- 
