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lion is lying doivn, with the face turned sideways 
towards the hollow of the bowl. The dogs 
in blue glaze have been mentioned above, and 
many other similar cups, bowls, and figures were 
found, which it was impossible to remove, as they 
fell to pieces on being touched, and were indeed 
already in powder. 
55. Of glass a large quantity of fragments were 
found, but all so much broken and injured by 
falls, fire, and excavation, that scarcely any 
pieces could be preserved. One long-necked 
flask in light-green glass is, however, nearly 
whole; and a curious little globular vase of 
colourless glass, 1 inch in diameter, is almost 
complete. A few pieces of the clear white glass 
vessels, with threads of milky glass wound around 
them, were brought away, as well as pieces of 
saucers of opaque red glass, ground and polished. 
Part of the cheek of a sacred eye was also found, 
formed of a green glass base, with a chequer 
mosaic 'pattern in black, white, and red, fused on 
to it; the whole was afterwards ground and polished 
in a curve, and it is a good piece of work. 
56. Of pottery a large quantity was found, but 
the account of it is necessarily deferred. About 
ten large amphorsB up to 3 feet high were found, 
mainly in the cellar; one of them is very fine, 
about 27 inches diameter and 3 feet high, 
full body, small short neck, and peg at the base 
ending in a knob, by which to lift the jar in 
emptying it. This is smooth brown pottery; but 
the other amphor® are all of the usual Eomano- 
Egyptian type, long neck with two handles at 
top, body tapering to a point at the base, a ring 
a little above the base, and the whole surface 
ribbed. Such jars are found in the mound at 
Benha, in which I found other things similar to 
thosein this house, and which, quite independently, 
I fixed at just the same age within a few years. 
Various smaller articles, about fifty in number, as 
jugs, cups, plates, (fee., were found, and will be 
added to the collection from this house. Two 
small pottery lamps were found, and two deco¬ 
rated handles of the flat pointed form, from large 
lamps, one with a vine-leaf on it, the other with 
a bust, from a very rounded mould; a dog 
(Frontispiece, 2 ); also portions of two terra-cotta 
figures, and a head of a child, SJ in. high. 
A piece of moulding in plaster was preserved, 
as also several shells of edible molluscs, a 
large piece of mother-of-pearl, and a sample of 
the many gallons, I may say bushels, of burnt 
wheat which was found in the ruins : much of 
this had apparently fallen from the upper 
floors, but the large blue glazed jar, which was 
put away in the furthest corner of the cellar, 
was full of wheat when I cut it out of the earth. 
Except some articles specially noted, the above 
objects are all placed together as one series in the 
British Museum. 
Such is an outline of the hundreds of articles 
found in excavating this single house; a find 
which is invaluable to us, as showing contempo¬ 
raneous examples of bronze work, figures of 
deities, glazed ware, pottery, &c., at a period of 
which we can probably fix the close within a 
single year. The possessions of Bakakhuiu give 
a key whereby to settle the age of a large part of 
the Eoman remains so abundantly found over 
the whole of Egypt. 
57. Next to this, some yards to the east and 
beside the same roadway, is another house, which 
from its neighbourhood, from its having been 
similarly looted and burnt, and from the exact 
similarity of its pottery and other remains, we 
cannot doubt was destroyed in the same confla¬ 
gration. As it has yielded many fresh objects, 
it is of great interest, as supplementing the finds 
in the house above described. The owner of this 
house (which is numbered as find 44) seems to 
have been not a native, but a Eoman. In the 
house of Bakakhuiu nothing from Greece or 
Italy was found; the only foreign influence was 
Syrian, and the papyri were nearly all demotic, 
only a small proportion being in Greek, such as 
would naturally accrue in course of business. In 
