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at the west end of the avenue of great blocks, of 
Ptolemaic age; at San; this piece is apparently 
part of the toe of an eagle, it is highly polished 
and grooved across; the grooves were made by 
picking to begin with, and then by graving 
them out smooth with a jewel point. That they 
were not ground out is proved by the way in 
which, as the cutting point came to the end of 
the groove, it slipped out under the strong pres¬ 
sure applied to it, and went skidding over the 
polished surface, so that what should be a smooth 
polished face where the grooves end, is scored 
all over with scratches: the fineness of these 
scratches, not yJ-j- inch wide, show what a very 
hard jewel point, far harder than quartz, must 
have been used; since a point that suifered any 
appreciable wear would have blunted down and 
made a broad score. This shows, therefore, that 
the system of hand-graving on statues with 
jewelled tools (such as I observed on the statue 
of Khafra in Bulak, “ Pyramids of Gizeh,” p. 177), 
was continued down to Greek times; just as the 
use of jewelled saws, found to be general in the 
pyramid times, continued till the Eoman age, as 
is shown by the piece of green porphyry above 
mentioned. Some natural products were picked 
up at San:—a large piece of laminated orpiment ; 
several pieces of native sulphur (native sulphur 
I have also brought from Gebel Maryam, near 
Lake Timsah, found in situ)-, some pieces of an 
olive-green silicate; pieces of beryl, rook crystal, 
haematite, marble, chalcedony, and a silicate of 
copper (?) associated with quartz and pyrites. 
Some artificial blue silicate of copper frit was 
also brought. This completes the list of objects 
for the British Museum. 
For the Boston Pine Arts Museum, in the United 
States, the series of objects of the thirtieth dynasty, 
described as find 20, have been appropriated; 
and also the following:—bronze Horns, inlaid 
gold eyes, 5^ in. high; sacred eye in red glass, 
flat, polished; 6 sacred eyes from San; samples of 
beads from finds 35 and 44, and several small 
objects already mentioned. 
To the Bristol Museum the set of objects from 
Tell Farun, described; in bronze, a kohl-stick; 
Horns 3| in. high; sistrum head; bell; arrow¬ 
heads, 5; earring with blue glass bead; a weight of 
1 kat, found with blue figure of Taur, of Ptolemaic 
age; staples for handles, 5; Horus, gilt; look of 
hair from a Horus; rings, 3; head of Horus; 
cow’s ear; vine-leaf; pieces of chain; bezil of a 
ring; feathers of a head-dress ; flail of Osiris; 
nails, 6; a disc and horns in gold, pendant; 
pieces of gold foil; a piece of silver, found with 
a rough sacred eye in the camp at the end of the 
south Tell. In glazed pottery, figure of Bast, 
very good; draughtsmen, 2 ; eye with brown lines 
on it; eyes, various, 13; cat; sistrum head; 
oblong plaque and a large bead; broken figures 
from find 35, to show the style of that age; head 
of Horus; legis of Horus from a ring; eegides 
of Bast, from rmgs, 3; crocodile; Bast; Anubis; 
Shu, 2; Nebhat; cowrie; serpent; scarab ; 
Horns; Nefertum, head; Bes; headofBes; eye 
and Bes, 2; eye-plaque; quadruple eye; rings, 2 ; 
and bunch of grapes. In red or brown pottery :—■ 
boy’s head; moulds for eye, image, and bead; two 
seated figures, very rude; piece of amphora 
handle, noA . . .; pieces of labels for tying to a 
jar (?), one plain, the other incised with Greek, 
but broken. In glass:—green hexagonal bead ; 
eye, opaque green, rough bottle. If in. high, found 
in the southern cemetery; strip of mosaic rosette 
pattern, lavender and yellow on white ground; 
square of mosaic, J inch; eye, and edgings of two 
eyes, from a coffin; beads, various; red gla'ss 
inlay, 3; eye; imitation onyx bead, dark blue and 
white; bead (find 35), green, hexagon; draughts¬ 
man; frame for a sacred eye inlaid in mosaic, 
green ; fragments of various coloured glass, 28. 
Of stone:—large agate bead; beads of crystal, 
garnet, agate, amber, &c., 33; various stone 
beads; head of Isis from a statuette, fine work, 
glazed green; a marble pendant; a little model 
amphora; eye in syenite; eye in obsidian, 
polished; small muller; unusually small basalt 
basin for grinding ; an emery whetstone. Iron 
