CHAP. III.—GBEEfC AHD EOJIAH TANIS, AND DISTEIBUTION OP PINDS. 
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was made in the north end of the mound on which 
my house was built, on the southern side of the 
road approaching the temple. A set of bronze 
weights was found there 5, 2, and 1 hat; also 
an agate ring; a blue porcelain Tahuti; a blue 
glass bead; and a scarab (pi. xii. 9). It is very 
rare to get a set of weights all in one place. This 
lot is in the British Museum. 
44. Of the Koman period there is a large 
number of houses, but in general the objects are 
not so good as in the Ptolemaic houses. The 
earliest Eomanhouses appear to be the group in the 
temple area (Plan, h) ; but these produced nothing 
except a coin of Agrippina the younger struck at 
Alexandria, and with that a figure of Bes in blue 
pottery, and a piece of a blue cup. These are 
useful as dated specimens of this ware. 
Another site of early Eoman age is on the west 
mounds, between the high Ptolemaic mound on 
which my house stands and the river. In the 
south-west mounds some digging brought to 
light a very fine terra-cotta of Europa on the 
bull: the head is lost, but the pose and swing of 
the work is of the best. (This is now at Bulak.) 
Along with this was found the breasts of a figure 
of Bes, of fine work, in blue porcelain; a head of 
Ptah, with the scarab on the top in terra-cotta; an 
undraped female figure in terra-cotta; a cup, 21 in. 
diameter, of thin bronze; small figures of a 
hawk and of Horus in bronze, part of a ring, 
and a large brass Alexandrian imperial coin ; a 
scarab inscribed “Shu, son of Ea ” (pi. xii. 62); 
and two small beads of polished rook crystal and 
camelian. A large quantity of pottery was also 
found here, which remains to be brought.(Find 64.) 
The great find of mid-Eoman period, the house 
of Bak-akhuiu, we will leave aside at present, with 
the next house to that, as they require a fuller 
notice than in a mere list. 
On the top of the high mound on the southern 
side of the gap east of the temple are many 
Eoman houses. In one of these a large quantity 
of pottery was found, and with it some small 
objects now in the British Museum. The best 
thing here was the upper part (2f ins. high) of a 
marble statuette of Venus (Frontispiece, 6); below 
the waist it was broken anciently, and within late 
years the Arabs in digging had broken off the 
head, one arm, and the other hand; but the style 
of the work makes even the remaining fragment 
of value. The attitude has been with the head 
leaning to one side, the right arm raised high, 
and the left bent upward from the elbow, the 
hands holding the locks of hair, which fell down 
and touched the shoulders ; the grace of the atti¬ 
tude, the delicate fulness of the contours, the 
folds of the skin, owing to the body being bent to 
one side, and the finish of the whole work, show 
it to have been of the best G-rffico-Eoman style. 
Withitwere found the following objects inbone,— 
a turned disc (for inlaying in a box ?), a turned 
cylinder (from a piece of furniture ?), and a hair-pin 
with ahead carved at the end; also a disc of turned 
wood; in glass, a piece of the bottom of abowl with a 
ring foot to it, ornamented with a ground-out scroll 
on the inside; and a small dump of pale purple 
glass, stamped with a device now indistinguish¬ 
able. In glazed pottery, was found a curious pen¬ 
dant (2|-in. long) of Bast; on the upper part of it 
the lion’s head of Bast, on the stem a standing 
figure of Bast in relief, and at the bottom the 
aegis of Bast; also a disc of green pottery, with 
three small holes in the edge for stitching on; a 
single and a quadruple sacred eye; and a draughts¬ 
man. In bronze, three Ptolemaic and early 
Eoman coins. This find (No. 22) is interesting 
as showing contemporaneous objects. 
At Tell Atrib (Athribis, Benha) there still 
remains a large mound of refuse thrown away 
during the second century a.d., though a vast 
amount has been removed from this site. In this 
mound I found several objects near together, and 
from indications I dated it as about the time of Corn- 
modus. This dating is confirmed by my finding 
afterwards, at San, pottery exactly similar (both 
red and glazed), in a house (Bakakhuiu’s), which 
is quite independently dated in the end of the 
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