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reign of Aurelius, or within a few years of the 
period I had assigned to the Benha mound. The 
objects thus dated are, in blue glazed pottery a 
flat bowl, 6f in. diameter, somewhat broken on the 
edge in two places, but otherwise in fine condi¬ 
tion ; twelve pieces of different patterns of bowls ; 
and partof a head of Bes. There are two pieces of 
a rare glazed pottery., which at first sight would 
be called Arabic, but one has the true dark 
Eoman blue glaze in the inside, and I found them 
in the mound; the ground colour is an olivy 
white, with patterns in light chocolate brown 
impressed on it. In red and brown pottery there 
were quantities of ribbed amphorsB, cups with 
re-curved edges, of which I brought three, and 
lamp-handles, one with conventional vine-leaf, 
another crescent-shaped, and another in two 
lobes. A female head in pottery, with the hair 
arranged in a broad roll around the face, gives 
the best clue to the age of the mound, as it is most 
like the style of the age of Aurelius. Of glass many 
fragments were found: the bottom of a glass 
bowl with ring-base, very clear and white, and 
another piece also of very fine quality, both abso¬ 
lutely unaltered by burial; a piece of a glass bowl 
with engraved vine spray and grapes on it; a 
piece of a conoidal glass bowl, of the form of the 
magnificent amber-coloured specimens in the 
British Museum; a piece of very thin glass flask, 
with a thin thread of opaque yellow glass wound 
round it; and three other fragments. All of 
these are valuable as dated examples. Beside 
this mound a few objects of unfixed age were 
found, as a bronze spear-head, 6J in. long, and 
some pieces - of Eoman pottery and glass, in¬ 
cluding one ostracon. 
Of late Roman age, at San, there was a small 
house built against the east side of the house of 
Bakakhniu : there I found pieces of a life-size 
statue in hard limestone, much broken up, 
(still left at San ); while I brought away a jar 
stopper of plaster stamped with the Christian 
monogram, two varieties of coarse cloth, part of 
a wooden comb, with wide and close teeth on 
opposite sides, exactly such as is made now in 
Egypt, a little scrap of silver chain, and an 
oblong mass of lead, perhaps a weight, but too 
much carbonated and dissolved for determination. 
(All now in the British Museum.) 
45. The tombs of Eoman period at San, pro- 
bablyof the secondand third centuries, have yielded 
some goodobjects. In the plain on the south side of 
the high mounds, between them and the avenue 
of large blocks, a few graves were found just 
below the surface. In one of these, with merely 
a board above her, but a foot from the surface, 
was a woman who had been buried in the rich 
attire she had worn during her life. Her body 
was swathed in several garments ornamented with 
woven patterns, and also a large quantity of 
outer wrappers of good quality (Find 63). In 
all twenty-one varieties of material and pattern 
were brought over, besides pieces of cord, of felt 
or loose wool, and of the long hair of the mummy: 
the skull will also come to England. On the 
body were found three hollow gold rings; two 
apparently earrings, with a circle of balls around 
one part of the ring; a new type, and therefore 
kept at Bulak: also a nose-ring, which was plain ; 
pieces of a very small iron knife, and a long 
necklace of glass beads. The woven patterns, 
can hardly be suitably described without draw¬ 
ings ; suffice to say that the varieties are as 
follow:—(1) borders of red with white pattern, 
edged with purple and black; (2) white pattern 
in red, leaf design, large surfaces (a whole 
garment ?); (3) white on red, circular groups 
with edging, sewn on the base; (4) white on 
scarlet, a broad strip with birds, vis-d-vis; (5, 6) 
two varieties of white on dark blue ground; 
(7) white and green on red ground, leaf pattern; 
(8) white, yellow, and blue on red ground; (9) 
circular group, for sewing on, of red, green, and 
white, with blue, yellow and red border; (10) very 
fine stuff, yellow, red, and white, on the ground, 
square design with birds and plants; (11,12) also 
two forms of borders of the same with plants; 
