BOOM.] EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES. 269 
A mirror with a handle of porcelain, in form of a lotus-sceptre ; on 
its upper surface is inscribed the name of Montheme, son of Hykheth. 
Bronze . 10^- in. h. 
Mirrors, without handles. Bronze . 6J to 4 in. dr. 
Circular mirror, in form of a box with its cover. Bronze . 6^ 
in. dr. 
Vases for stibium. Basalt, arragonite. \\ to 1^ in. h. 
Covers from similar vases. Calcareous stone , fyc. 
A 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. Dark green steatite. 3J in. h. 
A vase for stibium, having in open work round the body, a frieze of 
nofre, feathers, and other symbols : the foot broken. Green porcelain. 
2J in. h. Memphis. 
Pins, for laying the pigment on the eyelids and brows, or used 
as hair pins; one terminates in hematite. Bronze, wood, fyc. 6 to 
3 1 in. 1. 
Similar pins having a bulb at one end only. Bronze, wood, hone, 
fyc. to 2\ in. 1. 
Pins, &c., for the hair. Arragonite, ivory, Sfc. 
Combs; one with a double row of teeth, another has the back ter¬ 
minating in the head of a cow. Wood. 4 \ to 2\ in. 1. 
Div. 4. Sandals of various forms and sizes. Leather, palm leaves, 
papyrus, wood. 
Sandals with high sides, approaching to the form of a shoe, with 
peaked toes; these sandals are provided w T ith ankle and fore straps. 
Leather, palm leaves. 
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. Leather. 7j 
to 5f in. 1. 
Shoes similar to the preceding, of coarser work and stouter material; 
one is of a late epoch, ornamented w r ith stitched and cut ornaments, 
with eyelet holes behind for a lace, which has been fixed round the 
foot to a tongue on the ankle. Leather. 10 to 9 in. L 
CASES N to T. VASES. 
The peculiar application of the various forms of vases not easy of 
solution; some appear in the hieroglyphic texts to have been appro¬ 
priated to particular substances,—as wax, wine, liquids, &c. The 
smaller and more elegant are supposed to have held unguents, 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 un¬ 
glazed. The prevailing colours of the glazing are red, blue, and green. 
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