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(13) violet and black, pattern of separate leaves; 
(14) orange and green needlework on very coarse 
canvas; (15) yellow open stuff with white bands, 
and ball fringe plaited; (16) brown open stuff 
with white stripes and plaited border; (17) brown 
open stuff with black stripes ; (18) crimson open 
stuff, like crape, with pink border and plaited 
edge; (19) same in scarlet; (20) canvas with 
blue stripe for outer wrappers; (21) open net¬ 
work. (A.11 these varieties go to the British 
Museum, and sets less complete to Bolton, Boston, 
Liverpool, Bristol, York, and Charterhouse.) 
Beside this grave others were found near it. 
Inthese werea pair of bronze armlets If, in. diam., 
a twisted bronze necklet H in. diam., and a pair of 
ivory armlets (?) sent to Bristol. Bronze bracelet, 
trusted, 2j in. diam., with hook and eye; two ivory 
armlets (?) ; a set of eight ivory hair-pins, three 
with carved heads; and a kohl-pot made out of 
a broken sistrum handle, which, from the orna¬ 
ment and colour, seems to belong to the thirtieth 
dynasty; (sent to Liverpool). A long wooden pin, 
and some balls of white substance, were kept at 
Bulak. 
In the long low Tell on the south of San many 
graves of Roman age were found. Most of these 
were without ornaments ; but one rich grave had 
been looted in ancient times, and the mummy 
and gilt case broken up, leaving only the glass 
mosaics and inlaying of the oofBn. These mosaics 
comprised two pairs of wings, in blue, light blue, 
red, and yellow ; the larger pair and the smaller 
—about half the size—are identical in every 
particular, and both wings of each pair are 
alike. This proves that the mosaic was first 
built up on a large scale, and not very long in 
the grain of it, perhaps 4 or 6 inches long and 
about 4x1 inch section; then this was fused, 
and while soft was pulled out lengthwise, thus 
reducing the section of the pattern, while in¬ 
creasing the length available for cutting up; in 
this way some hundreds of inlaying jiieces could 
be made from one block of mosaic. Beside these 
wings were pieces of mosaic chequer, green, yellow, 
black, and white; pieces of blue, with a line of 
white florets with red centres; pieces of opaque 
red, with yellow and black flowers in a row, and 
as if threaded; pieces of black and yellow alter¬ 
nate ; and pieces of yellow, blue, and other 
colours without patterns. The inlaid glass eyes 
of this coffin were also found. I passed all the 
dust of this grave through my own hands, so 
as to secure all the pieces. This set is in the 
British Museum, and a few duplicate pieces at 
Bristol and Liverpool. 
In another grave of this cemetery were found 
two gold-foil eyes for laying on the eyes of the 
mummy, and a tongue piece, together with a 
small boss with a hook behind it. As no second 
could be found, though all the earth was sifted, 
this may be a nose-jewel. This set is in the 
British Museum. 
In other graves were found other gold-foil 
ornaments; of these an eye and tongue piece go 
to Boston, another eye and tongue to York, and 
an eye and a rude figure of a flying hawk to 
Liverpool. 
A quantity of amulets of very late style were 
found, cut in black limestone, white limestone, 
and alabaster; the forms were scarabs, hearts, 
girdle-ties, eyes, plumes, fingers, and other types. 
Of these, Bristol has a set of 16, York 10, and 
Edinburgh 5. 
An amber necklace, about 22 inches long, was 
also found in a grave here; one-third of it—the 
smaller beads only-—were kept at Bulak, as amber 
was almost or quite unknown in Egypt before. 
With this was also kept a small bone figure of 
Venus, found in the same grave. 
This low mound is not more than 3 to 12 feet 
high, above a flat sandy strip on which it lies. 
Near the bottom of the accumulations two pieces 
of early Greek pottery were found, one a very thick 
globular jug of hard light brown ware, with con¬ 
centric circles in red. Prom this it seems as if 
this spit of sand outside of the city had been the 
Greek quarter in early times ; and when abandoned 
after the Ptolemaic amalgamation, its heap of dust 
