CHAP. Ill,—GREEK AKD ROMAN TANIS, AND DISTRIBUTION OP FINDS 
(All these objects except the statue are in the 
British Museum). Another house, of apparently 
the same age, is built similarly against the inside 
of the great wall, but on the south side of the 
temple (see Plan k). These houses being built 
in the old temple area in Ptolemaic times, exactly 
agrees with the discovery of the Ptolemaic temple 
outside of that area, -which -would be then half 
filled -with mud, and left unattended to. This 
house seems also to have belonged to a craftsman, 
who was a painter rather than a sculptor (Find 
No. 25). Three pieces of designing tablets were 
found here ; slabs of limestone, ruled in squares, 
and one of them much worn. These were doubt¬ 
less for drawing designs by free hand, to be after¬ 
wards transferred square for square to the painting 
in progress. Two of the colours were found that 
were used: a slab of schist having red ochre ground 
upon it, and a piece of a pot having blue silicate 
of copper in it. Two scraps of fritted copper sili¬ 
cate were also found. Some scraps of flat glass 
have traces of gilding on them, and show a Greek 
wave-border. Part of an eye in flat orange glass 
was found; and another sacred eye, of very un¬ 
usual style, with the eye, &o., inlaid in red, blue, 
and white glass, cut to shape, and fitting in a 
green glass basis. Several rude blue shahti were 
found, all broken but one; also a convex disc of 
green pottery with three holes in the edge—this is 
a common form, and seems as if to sew on to 
mummy cloth. A good crocodile in green pottery 
was with these; it has remarkably long ears. A 
PJiodian jar-handle inscribed M YZAIo ... is of 
the usual light-brown ware. Some Ptolemaic 
coins fix the age of this house. (All these objects 
go to the British Museum, except a piece of the 
squared slab to York, and another piece and also a 
shahti to Bristol.) 
42. The long ridge of mounds running north 
and south, on the west side of the temple en¬ 
closure, seems to be all of Greek age on the 
upper part. The Ptolemaic chapel was found 
there on the northern part of the ridge, and on 
the southern part, on which my house stood, the 
Ptolemaic houses could be traced all over it. Some 
of these I cleared, but only one of them was of 
value. I had cleared out the upper room, and the 
cellar of the house was just being finished, when 
in one corner ajar was found, with a stone on the 
top of it. Within the jar was a large mass of 
silver chain, -n'eighing seventeen and a half ounces; 
it had been a flexible wire chain apparently, but 
now was set into a single mass by the chlorination 
of the silver; it was thick in the middle, and 
thinned to about half the size toward the ends. 
With it was a necklet of silver beads, composed of 
globules soldered together, in an hexagonal pile 
of double thiclmess (see pi. xii. 27, 28), and some 
flat hexagonal beads which were probably strung 
between these (fig. 2(i). Also a gold ring with 
two serpents’ heads (pi. xii. 29), weighing about 
ninety grains; it is made of sheet gold beaten up 
for the body of the serpent, convex outside and 
concave inside, and the turns of the coil are just 
touched together with gold solder : the heads are 
chased with a graver. In the same jar was a 
necklace of stone beads, onyx, garnet, agate, green 
turquoise, lapis lazuli, and coral, in all twenty- 
one inches long. The garnets are of the finest 
colour and transparency, and the onyxes are very 
good ; coral is scarcely known in ancient jewellery. 
Besides these objects (which all go to the British 
Museum, except the large silver chain nowat Bulak) 
a few small things were found in the house (Find 
54); namely, a bronze kohl-stick six inches long; 
a bronze weight of the usual Egyptian form, but 
filled with lead—the lead has now oxidized, burst 
the bronze, and mainly dissolved away as chloride 
and carbonate; a part of an iron nail; a lid of a 
small vase in blue pottery, now faded ; and four 
Ptolemaic coins;—all now in the British Museum. 
This completes the catalogue of this house. From 
the jewellery being hidden thus in the cellar, and 
never having been removed, it seems as if the 
mistress of the house had fled in great haste, not 
having had time to bury her treasure, yet not daring 
to carry it with her for fear of being robbed. She 
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