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TANIS. 
and rubbish was used as a cemetery in the Koman 
period. 
46. Having now described the principal finds, 
it remains to give a catalogue of the miscellaneous 
objects. In so doing they will be arranged accord¬ 
ing to the Museums to which they have been 
distributed,; noting the larger finds already de¬ 
scribed, which go to these same Museums. 
The British Museum has the whole house of 
Bakakhuiu (No 35), excepting duplicates, which 
will be described in the next chapter; also a 
selection of the more important things from the 
adjacent house (No. 44), which will be catalogued 
along with Bakakhuiu’s; 13 weights, the details 
of which will be given with the list of levels at 
San, &o.; and the following finds, which have 
been already described, in this order: Tell el 
Yahudiyeh; Tell el Maskhutah; Pisebkhanu’s 
tablets ; part of Sueilin objects; finds 20, 24, 26, 
64, 66, 23, 32,15; three weights, &c.; house north 
of sanctuary, 64, 22; Benha, outside of, 36, 63; 
glass mosaics, gold eyes, &c.; and amber necklace. 
Besides these, the following isolated objects : piece 
of a small measure (?) in green pottery; fish¬ 
hook, bronze, 2 in. long; blue pottery disc of 
Psamtik II. (pi. xii. 25), found on the surface 
just S.W. of the wall; amulet of Ptah, double, 
in the style of those found at Marathus; carnelian 
bead, oblong, rich colour; sacred eye in trans¬ 
lucent obsidian, very fine; seal in fonn of a seated 
animal (pi. xii. 32) with inscription on base—this 
was found on the southern burial Tell; sling-stones 
of limestone, 2 in. long; bronze earring with mock 
pearl of glass ; circular bronze buckle, with tongue 
in shape of goose’s head (pi. xii. 47) ; bone pins, 
about 4 inches long, sharply pointed at one end, 
and roughly cut at the other; of these many thou¬ 
sands were found in theN.W. mounds (Ptolemaic), 
and these were found all in a lot in the middle 
of the Ptolemaic avenue of blocks; the most 
likely conjecture is that they were set in a board, 
upright, for carding flax; pieces of the polished 
surface of the great colossus of Eamessu II. ; 
five ostraca; four chipped flints. Of glass, the 
following pieces were selected: yellow ring; 5 
pieces of bangles, one with inlaid pieces of different 
glass; coloured dumps, 4 ; facetted cast bead of 
opaque blue; cut bead of red glass; oval piece 
of white, plano-convex, polished; piece of imita¬ 
tion alabaster; pieces of opaque inlaid patterns, 2; 
triangular cut bead; white ring ; opaque red bead ; 
blue oval imitation lazuli for setting ; eye in clear 
light blue ; varied beads, 9; and strips for in¬ 
laying, 16.- Of pottery, there is a plano-convex 
knob of blue stoneware; bust of a girl with arms 
raised above the head, dressed in light olive with 
large dark brown spots, and with dark brown 
hair, found on the east side of the mounds in a 
burnt Roman house; a rosette of five knobs in 
blue pottery, Roman, top of E. mounds; a square 
plaque eye with name of Isis on reverse (pi. xii. 
20); bust of Bes nursing a small Bes, in green 
pottery with brown spots; piece of a fine blue- 
green bowl, ornamented with leaves; and a piece 
of a throne of a statuette of the thirtieth dynasty, 
with the old sam and intertwined lotus and 
papyrus on the side, a case of the copying in the 
renascence. Of scarabs, grass green on white 
schist, “ Ahotepu” (pi. xii. 8) ; white schist, hawk 
and emblems (pi. xii. 4); brown glaze, man with 
branches ; browny-white “ Har nefer Uati ” (pi. xii. 
49); loop ornament; triple scarab in greyish 
green on grey schist (pi. xii. 3); a domed stamp 
with a hand, light brown, (pi. xii. 53. Coin of 
Tanite Nome of Hadrian : reverse TAN I AIA eagle. 
Coin of Anastasius (?),a single nummium : reverse 
A, unpublished. Examples of working in stone;— 
a piece of alabaster with saw marks, and a piece 
of alabaster with the outsides of large tubular 
drill-holes, both from Tell el Yahudiyeh, from 
whence other pieces of alabaster with tubular 
drill-holes are in the British Museum. Piece of 
green porphyry, Roman age, top of E. mound, 
San, with saw marks on the back, showing very 
deep scores cut by the jewelled saw teeth on the 
side of the cut. Small tubular drill-core in lapis 
lazuli. Piece of grey granite from the enclosure 
