232 PYRAMIDS OF SACCARA. 
jars, however, instead of a bird, were found 
parts of other animals, carefully embalmed, and 
wrapped in linen ; as the head of a monkey ^ or of 
a cat, without the entire body. Such appear- 
ances are rare. Pococke relates, that, in one of 
the irregular apartments, he saw several larger 
jars, which might be intended for dogs, or for 
other animals : of these, says he, some have 
been found, but they are now very rare *. We 
saw none of those larger jars: they all appeared 
to be of equal size, about fourteen inches in 
length, of a conical form, and made after the 
same manner, of coarse earthenware. A luting 
fastened on the cover : this luting has been 
described as mortar, but it seems rather to 
have consisted of the mud of the Nile^. It 
required considerable labour to move about a 
dozen of these jars with us, in our passage back 
representation of the bird, as it appeared after the covering was 
removed. — See also a very interesting publication, entitled Histoire 
Nclurelle et MyOiologiqKe de /'luis; par Jules-Cesar Savignv, 
Memlre de F Institut d'Egypte. 8vo. with Plates exquisitely drawn and 
coloured. Paris, 1805. 
(1) Description of the East, vol. I. p. 53. Land. 1743. 
(2) " The pottery itself, although three thousand years old, appears 
as new as if it were of yesterday. We broke several of the pots, and 
found some very perfect birds. We met with a wing of the Ihis, 
having the feathers still on the pinion : as soon, however, as this was 
exposed to the air, the plumage fell to pieces, and was lost." Squire's 
MS. Journal. 
