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never returned to fetch it, for the house was not 
burnt, but gradually fell to decay, standing deso¬ 
late, with the pot of jewellery in the corner of the 
empty cellar slowly being buried in the dust and 
mud swept in by the weather. 
43. About the Ptolemaic period, judging by 
the style of the objects, are the remains found in 
the north end of the long low Tell adjoining San 
on the south side. There are many remains of 
houses, and in Eoman times the place was used 
for a cemetery. A little north of the cemetery 
district a few things were found (Find 66):—a 
pendant of black flint, roughly ground and pierced; 
a scarabseoid with a conventional lotus twist, 
which may be earlier; several little figures, two 
Ptahs, two apes, four eyes, a ram, two Basts, two 
Muts, a little pendant scarab, a lot of beads—all 
of green pottery, rather rudely made ; also a 
pointed flat piece of bone, much polished on the 
edge from use. All these are in the British 
Museum. 
A house of late Ptolemaic period was cleared, 
on the south side of the eastern gap in the moimds. 
A very good small bronze of Ptah, gilt, was found 
there, one and three-quarter inches high; also a 
square eye plaque with name of Uati, very thick 
and coarse; a flat blue glass eye polished ; some 
bone pins, a bronze ring, a handle of bronze wire, 
a Ptolemaic coin, &o. (Find 23.) 
Another small lot of things of about the same 
age was obtained in sinking a pit on the south¬ 
west of the pylon. Here we found a very good 
terra-cotta figure (five and a half inches high) of 
Harpokrates holding a cornucopise, and seated on 
a swan. The flgm-e is an inqpression from a fine 
mould, and has been touched up by hand on the 
face with good effect. Near it was a piece of an 
iron sickle, a small burnisher of syenite, and a 
quantity of small Ptolemaic coins. (Find 32.) 
An important house, that belongs to the end of 
the Ptolemaic times, was cleared a short way north 
of the pylon; and much pottery was obtained 
from a neighbouring house of the same age, but 
that remains to be brought over. In this house, 
marked m on the Plan, everything had been burnt. 
The whole of the finds brought over are in the 
British Museum, but two large figures of Bes in 
terra-cotta and pieces of an ivory sun-dial will 
come with the rest of the pottery. In bronze 
there was found a small bucket-handle; a 
figure of Osiris If in. high; an ornament IJ in. 
diam.; an earring of the usual Greek bull’s-head 
pattern, very rare in bronze (pi. xii. 45); a bronze 
hand in. long, and several Ptolemaic coins; 
a piece of a gold earring with a dolphin’s head 
was also found. In iron a lock-plate 3^x3 ins.; 
and some nails. In glass, a piece of glass mosaic 
with the tarn in white on dark blue ground (pi. xii. 
44), and another piece of the same; an inlaid 
mosaic eye in glass, the cheek part being inlaid 
with stripes of squares of different mosaic patterns, 
all fitted into a green glass frame, with strips of 
white glass between the stripes—though much 
burnt and broken, it is a fine piece; a piece of a 
glass bowl, ground and polished inside and outside, 
with a pattern of vine spray laid on in gold foil in 
the middle of the glass, two pieces of glass having 
been fused together with the foil pattern between 
them; a sacred eye in dark blue glass, plain, 
polished; a small blue glass phallus, broken; a 
small yellow glass head, usually known as Phoe¬ 
nician glass; three pieces of inlaid glass dumps : 
these varieties of glass are important, as showing 
the age of different styles and forms. In green 
pottery, a little plaque of Horus holding snakes 
and standing on crocodiles. In burnt clay, two 
seals (pi. xii. 13, 14). A scarab (pi. xii. 51) 
inscribed “ priest of Tahuti.” And a pin-head (?) 
and ring of bone. Prom finding quantities of 
Ptolemaic coins here, and in the next house, but 
no Eoman, and from the style of the things, 
later in development (iron lock-plate, glass mo¬ 
saic, &c.) than in other Ptolemaic houses, as 
well as from the head on the seal (14), this house 
is probably of the end of the Ptolemaic dynasty. 
(Find 15.) 
Another small find, which is probably Ptolemaic, 
