ROOM.] EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES. 203 
Circular mirror, in form of a box with its cover. Bronze . J in. dr. 
Vases for sthem. Basalt, arragonite. 4^ to in. h. 
Covers from similar vases. Calcareous stone, Sfc. 
Vase for sthem, held by a kneeling youth. Dark green steatite. 
3 \ in. h. 
Vase for sthem, having round the body a frieze of various symbols. 
Green porcelain. 2£ in. h. Memphis. 
Chinese vases, said to be found in Egyptian tombs; on one two 
bats, on the other inscription in writing hand. Presented by Sir J. 
Gardner Wilkinson , 1834-42. 
Pins for laying on sthem, or used as hair pins. Bronze, wood, 
fyc. 6 to 3^ in. 1. 
Similar pins having a bulb at one end only. Bronze, wood, bone, 
fyc. to 2J in. 1. 
Pins, &c., for the hair. Arragonite, ivory, fyc. 
Combs; one with a double row of teeth, another has the back ter¬ 
minating in the head of a cow. Wood. 4J to 2J in. 1. 
Shoes with round toes, ankle and fore straps; most of them for 
children; they were found in the basket on Shelf I. in this Case. 
See the mummy of a child in Case B B. Leather. 7J to 5J in. 1. 
Similar shoes, coarser and stouter; one with stitched and cut orna¬ 
ments. Leather. 10 to 9 in. 1. 
Sandals of various forms and sizes, some with high peaked toes, as 
worn in the 18th and 19th dynasties. Leather. 
Div. 4. Sandals of various forms and sizes, some with rounded, 
others with high peaked toes. Palm leaves, papyrus, and wood. 
CASES 22, 23. VASES. 
The relation of the various forms of vases to their uses is not easy 
to determine; some appear in the hieroglyphical texts to have been ap¬ 
propriated 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 wane, 
eatables, &c.; others again contain varnish, bitumen, &c. The follow¬ 
ing appear most worthy of remark : — 
Div. 1. Two vases, one having in front the prenomen Merenra, stand¬ 
ard, and titles of a king prior to the 12th dynasty; the other, those of 
Re-Nofrekah, or Nepercheres, of an old dynasty, assumed by Sabaco, 
first king of the 25th dynasty. Arragonite. 8 to 5| in. h. 
Div. 2. Vase, with the name of Noubemtech, a princess. Arra¬ 
gonite. 4^ in. h. 
Small vases in the shape of wine-glasses. Arragonite. 4f to 4 in. h. 
Abydos. 
Div. 3. Circular table; on it eight vessels of various forms, all 
inscribed with the names and titles of Atkai. Arragonite. 1 ft. 1 j in. 
dr. Abydos. 
Slab, with the following objects:—two bottle and four crucible- 
formed vases; a peculiar object, bifurcate at one end; a piece of 
basalt. Calcareous stone. 6f in. 1., 4£ in. d. Abydos. 
Vase ; on the neck a female face. Arragonite. 9 in. h. Memphis. 
Vases or cups in the shape of the shell Indina Nilotica. Arragonite. 
5 to 4J- in. 1. Abydos. 
