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talized in a matrix of haematite ; scarab, with Ma 
and ape ; scarab, with Ea (blue glaze, on fawn- 
coloured base) ; papyrus sceptre in white beryl; 
scarab, oat, and ring in green pottery; Tat, green 
pottery, 4 inches long; pottery sacred eyes, IJ, 
IJin. ; plaque of green pottery, oblong, Ifin. long 
(these are found in various places, object un¬ 
known) ; 7 beads, &o. ; 4 coins, Greek and 
Eoman; bronze nail. All these objects (except¬ 
ing the coins) I should refer to about the twenty- 
eighth dynasty by their appearance, but the scarabs 
may be older. Bolton receives two stone scarabs 
If in. and ^ in.; Nebhat and Tahuti, lapis lazuli; 
double ring of green pottery, with winged Isis (?) 
on the bezils. 
36. In the course of similar diggings at Tell 
Sueilin, near San, a quantity of sacred eyes and 
other small objects were found, which I should 
attribute to the twenty-sixth dynasty, and perhaps 
on to the Greek period. A few things I also 
purchased there. Of these the British Museum 
takes a large green eye, one of the finest known, 
but cracked, 3f in.; another eye in blue pottery, 
pierced pattern, with three other eyes in the border, 
and figures of a goddess. If in. long; 12 various 
eyes; a quadruple eye; 7 eyes on square plaques, 
with the names or figures of deities on the 
reverse (see pi. xii.), Sekhet (No. 16), Uati 
(No. 16), Hathor (17), Bark of Ea (18), 
Nebhat (19), Neit (21), and Ea (22); square 
of bright hard blue paste, ^ in. ; cat seated 
with kitten between fore-paws, blue porcelain 
1 inch high, good work; head of Hathor and 
snakes in blue paste; Ptah, Isis and Horus, 
and cat, green pottery, small; an unknown bronze 
object, apparently intended to fasten on a wooden 
staff, forking into two rods at the end, connected 
by a cross bar; it is not broken off at either end, 
and the only supposition is that it is the end of a 
ta?n sceptre, forking at the base, and with a junction 
piece of the casting not cut away; it is 6f in. long. 
Of other things from Sueilin, Bristol has 4 scarabs, 
(no/er in a border of circles (early?), hunting 
scene, kheper and ur»us serpent, and palm branch, 
late) ; Horus, Horus and serpents, Isis, Shu, 
hawk, libation bucket, ring with eye on it, 28 
sacred eyes, and draughtsman, all in blue or green 
pottery; 3 cowries, silver ring, and several chips 
of silver merely chopped off a mass, all found 
with the ring; Anup, cat and ear-ring in bronze, 
and a lot of beads;—52 objects in all. To Bolton, 
11 sacred eyes and a lot of beads. To Geneva, 
10 sacred eyes. To York, 20 eyes, rosette, 
head of Hathor, cowries, beads, &c. To Liver¬ 
pool, 20 sacred eyes, and cat. To Charterhouse 
School, 5 eyes. To Boston, 26 sacred eyes, 2 
cowries, 6 beads, scarab, tablet of Mut, Nebhat, 
and Hathor, broken; Bes; pendant; head of 
Hathor. Besides these, a quantity are left in 
reserve. The greater part of these sacred eyes 
were found buried together within a few square 
yards, at about tliree feet below the surface ; they 
were scattered through the sand irregularly, and 
seem to have been placed for a general sanctifica¬ 
tion of the ground, as were the bronzes of Osiris 
found buried in the Typhonic sand beneath 
temples. Miscellaneous burials had been made 
in the sand above the eyes. Many of these eyes 
are of a very fine make, well glazed, hard, not 
porous, and of dark blue, green, and black 
colouring. 
■ 37. The next find in point of date was at San, 
in house No. 20, marked a in Plan. This house 
was built against the inside of the temple-wall. 
Within it, scattered about, were several objects, 
most of which had been burnt. The fire, how¬ 
ever, seemed not to have been general in the 
house, and to have occurred when it was deserted, 
as the reddening was only in one layer, and that 
above the floor-level, on a slope. It seems as if 
the house had been ruined, and partly filled up, 
and then that a quantity of things were all brought 
to it and burnt there. This suggests that these 
things were looted from some adjacent place ; but 
if so, it is strange that four silver figures should 
have been left behind. By some finger-bones and 
