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TANIS. 
a tooth found, it looks as if a tomb had been 
rifled, and the contents brought here to sort over; 
after which, all that was not wanted was burnt, 
having been knocked about, and partly broken. 
The date of this find I should attribute to about the 
thirtieth dynasty. The style of the figures is very 
fine, better than anything except the twenty-sixth 
or thirtieth dynasty; the light blue colour and 
work preventing our putting it to the earlier times, 
and the excellence of it showing that it is not 
Ptolemaic. Also no Ptolemaic coins were found 
here, and the papyri were all demotic. As a piece 
of Greek black pottery was found with it, this 
brings it below the twenty-sixth dynasty; and 
altogether, I think we can hardly err in dating it 
to the artistic revival under Nekht-neb-f. Tanis 
was certainly important under his reign, as he 
resided there, and was besieged in the town. 
The style of the sacred eyes also, which are the 
roughest things found here, borders on the Ptole¬ 
maic work. This find is numbered 20, on all 
objects or labels belonging to it. 
To begin with metal, four silver figures were 
found (see pi. xii.), two of Bes (No. 43), one of 
Horns (No. 41), and one of Hathor? (No. 42). 
Boston takes one Bes and Horus. Such images 
are very rare ; no silver of Bes was known at 
Bulak, and there are no such figures in the 
Louvre. Fragments of gold foil were found, 
apparently from some plated object. In bronze, 
six capitals, probably of some shrine, were ob¬ 
tained (see pi. xii., No. 50) : two go to Boston. 
Charred wood was in these when dug up. A 
corner of a frame, socketed to hold wooden bars, 
a piece of furniture, with late Egyptian moulding; 
cast bronze, 2 in. high. A small base of apillar( ?), 
armlet, thick bronze, 2f in. diam.; 6 nails, IJto 
5| in. long. Bronze arrow head, ring, handle with 
staples, 4 staples, cat f high, and various pieces. 
A large figure of Bes in bronze was kept at Bulak. 
Iron knives were also found; (one long one and two 
shorter go to Boston, others to British Museum). 
An iron spear-head, a broad iron ring, or circular 
band, perhaps an anklet, and 3 iron nails. A 
piece of lead, object unknown. Of pottery there 
were many figures of fine work, executed in a sort 
of stoneware, very hard all through, and not 
thickly glazed on the surface. These figures are 
Tahuti, 6^ in. high (broken and burnt anciently); 
Isis and Horus, a charming piece, 4^ in. high; 
Horus, Tahuti, Harpekroti, Khnum, Shu, and 
Crocodile, a set in. high ; a monkey of this set 
is kept at Bulak; the Harpekroti is particularly 
good: scarab, in. long, with legs beneath; 
lion, li in.; 6 urseus serpents. If in. high : 
(two kept at Bulak, and two for British Museum;) 
papyrus sceptre, li in.; Taur and Tahuti, If in.; 
crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt, in. Bull, 
ram, rabbit, Khnum, Shu, Taur, and papyrus 
sceptre (broken), in. high, a set in bright green 
pottery; lion and monkey, kept at Bulak). Shu 
and pig, f in. each; 8 eyes, f in. to 1 in.; Taur, 
white crumbling pottery, eyes and ursei; bowl in 
green hard pottery, 3|- in. diam.; plaque of green 
pottery. If in. : jar of green pottery, with very 
narrow neck, and handle broken off, 4J in. high ; 
pair of kohl-pots, a funerary imitation; a clay 
figure ofTaur holding girdle-tie,broken, 2 in.high. 
In stone there is a Taur in hsematite; a larger Taur 
inhffimatite (kept atBulak); part ofIsisandHorus 
in syenite; part of a bowl in black shale (?); 
3 figures in limestone : these belong to a class 
rather rudely out, painted a brilliant red, and 
often of gross types; such are found in early 
Ptolemaic sites, and are an additional reason for 
placing this house in the thirtieth dynasty. Als o 
a little square box, and minute tablet in limestone. 
In alabaster, a kohl-pot, 2^ in. high, with charred 
remains inside it, and bronze kohl stick, 4f in. long. 
In glass, a part of a circular tray of orange- 
coloured glass. If in. diam. ; a cast piece of light 
green glass (aqua-marine) with facets cast, the 
mould being from a out gem; a small blue glass 
bead; part of an obsidian vase, turned inside and 
out; a drill core in alabaster ; a scrap of Phoe¬ 
nician glass ; clay impression of a seal belonging 
to a priest of Anup ; some resin ; two seeds cut 
up as beads ; 6 pieces of ivory objects, a box (?) 
