CHAP. III.—GEEEK AND EOMAN TANIS, AND DISTBIBHTION OF FINDS. 
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and a little papyrus sceptre of wood with ivory 
head; a scrap of black lustrous Greek pottery 
and a piece of fine bright red pottery ; four finger- 
bones, and a human tooth. All the above objects 
go to Boston, unless otherwise stated. 
Besides these, a few duplicates from this house 
go to the British Museum. The silver Bes, and 
Hathor (?); two of the bronze capitals; two iron 
knives; pieces of green pottery bowls; two 
serpents ; 4 pottery eyes; 3 bronze staples; from 
the objects mentioned above. Besides these, also 
the .following: Isis and Horus, 3 in. high in pot¬ 
tery; head of Tahuti; Horus from a group; scarab, 
with legs, IJ in. long; Taur; crocodile; all in 
pottery; and a seated ape, in unburnt clay, 
2i in. high, like the Taur in clay sent to Boston. 
Another bronze capital goes to Liverpool, and 
another—the sixth—to Bolton, besides one kept 
at Bulak. There were also many papyri, and 
pieces of a writing-case with the reeds, all burnt, 
found here. 
38. Next the finds of Ptolemaic period must be 
described. The principal objects have not yet 
been brought to England, so that their dis¬ 
tribution cannot be yet staed, but a brief out¬ 
line may be here given. In the mound of ruins on 
the north side of the western roadway to the temple 
at San a small shrine or chapel of Ptolemy II. 
and Arsinoe II. was found. This consisted of a 
chamber built of crude brick, in the west wall of 
which was a recess. At the back of the recess was a 
stele in limestone (SJ ft. high, 20 in. wide, 10 in. 
thick), representing Ptolemy and Arsinoe in long 
Greek dress, adoring Khem, Uati, and Har, the 
triad of San at that time (see pi. xv. 3.) ; above the 
group was the hut, and columns of inscription de¬ 
noting the several figures. This whole scene was 
gilt, but the gilding was entirely lost in a few weeks 
after its discovery by the efflorescence of salt. 
Below this scene the tablet was painted with a 
fringe pattern of red and blue stripes. On each side 
of the recess was a sphinx (see pi. xv. no. 4.) n 
limestone, placed with one side against the wall; 
the sphinxes facing towards each other. These 
sphinxes had evidently been taken from some 
earlier building. In the first place, they lay with 
the tail-side, which should be outward, placed to 
the wall; the reason of this plainly being that 
they were damaged on that side and not on the 
other, which was placed outward in their later 
position. These sphinxes are 29 in. long, and 
18 in. high. They are of late style, like the 
sphinxes of the Serapeum, or that found by the 
great sphinx of Gizeh by Caviglia. Most likely 
they belong to some work erected here by Nekht- 
neb-f, of whom there is a very similar sphinx in 
the Louvre, and who resided at San, as I have 
before remarked. Another sphinx, like these, but 
headless, was found not far from here, as will be 
mentioned further on. 
In front of this shrine there lay on the ground 
a group of other tablets, and a figure of a king. 
This statue probably represents Ptolemy II. in 
Egyptian dress; it is of late and clumsy workman¬ 
ship (see pi. XV. no. 6.), and was anciently broken 
in two parts. It is 22 inches high. The finest 
of the small tablets is one representing Ptolemy 
and Arsinoe in Egyptian dress, facing each 
other : he appears to hold a thunderbolt. This 
tablet is 14x17 inches. A larger tablet, 
of very rude work, represents a king, probably 
Ptolemy II., and Arsinoe, standing before Khem, 
Horus, and Uati. This has no inscription. 
There are also two small tablets of Hapi, 
uninscribed; a small tablet of a deceased per¬ 
son before Osiris, with a demotic inscription 
below, which seems to have been partly ground 
out; two crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt, 
which had been taken from some other figures, to 
which they were originally fixed by pegs ; all 
these were of limestone. Also part of a foot of 
a Greek statue in marble, which had likewise been 
fixed into a figure by a peg, was found with the 
above. 
39. Another tablet, similar to the largest, was 
found just on the water-shed at the south end of the 
