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CHAP. IT.—BAKHAKHUIU, THE LAWfEE OP SAN. 
house 44, on the contrary, the most striking 
objects, as we shall see, have been imported, 
probably from Magna Grsecia, and (so far as 
observation at the time went) half or nearly half 
of the papyri were in Greek, including fragments 
of some beautiful uncial rolls. It appears then 
that while Bakakhuiu was a native lawyer, per¬ 
haps employed in the civil service, his neighbour 
was a wealthy Roman official, a man of taste 
and refinement, who came from Italy to the 
administration of Tanis. 
58. As several of the remains were similar to 
those of Bakakhuiu’s, it was not thought desirable 
to keep them all together. The greater number of 
them, therefore, have been presented to the York 
Museum; except only such things as were particu¬ 
larly required for the British Museum, to which 
(B. M.) is noted in the following account. The 
largest object found was a term, carved in white 
marble; it is a square prismatic block about two 
feet high, with a female head upon it, and 
half-way down the front a trace of the usual 
attachment having been cemented on. A photo¬ 
graph of this head is given in pi. xv. 6, 
but the expression varies much in different 
aspects; and though not elaborately finished, 
being merely done in the style of decorative work, 
and about half life-size, the delicacy of the 
feeling stamps it as of the best class of Graeco- 
Roman work. The full-face is noble and some¬ 
what severe, while the three-quarter view brings 
out a slight and graceful smile. Both the mate¬ 
rial and the style are entirely foreign, and it is to 
Southern Italy that we must look for the source of 
this work of art. This will appear in the British 
Museum. Two pieces of thoroughly Romano- 
Egyptian work were found here, a couchant bull, 
and a kawk in limestone, about 4 inches high; 
the bull was required for the Bulak Museum, 
the hawk is in the British Museum. A seal is 
also in limestone, bearing the deities Ma and 
Ra (?) facing, with the hut over them. A lime¬ 
stone saucer, 3^ in. diam., has a rope border 
around it. 
69. Many bronze objects were found here. 
Beneath a burnt beam, which had fallen from the 
roof, lay a bronze pan, inches across, with 
three hooks on its rim; and by its side was 
an iron staple, with the wood still sticking to it, 
and a stout bronze ring through it. This was 
the ring from which the pan was hung in the 
middle of the room, but though I carefully looked 
for them no chains could be found; the pan was 
therefore hung by three cords from the ring, and 
it was probably used for holding a lamp (B. M.). 
Another unusual bronze object was a kohl-pot, 
cylindrical. If in. high, across, with a hinging 
lid, perforated in the middle to pass the kohl- 
stick through. Inside was a lump of burnt 
antimony sulphide, and some charcoal from the 
organic matter mixed with the kohl. A pair of 
broad bronze tweezers, in. long, is another 
toilet article. Other detached bronze objects 
were a cup If in. across, pieces of a bronze 
dish, two pieces that may be small figures, 
much corroded, a Ptolemaic coin found below 
the house, and a large Alexandrian coin of 
Vespasian, which was found in the ruins; as 
this last is much worn, it corroborates the age 
of these things being in the latter part of the 
second century. Of bronze pieces belonging to 
furniture a large quantity occurred here ; a bronze 
handle 3| in. across (B. M.), and two others ot 
24 and 4f in.; a piece of very thin bronze foil, 
pressed into a form of a moulding, and filled with 
rosin to preserve its shape* (B. M.); many angle 
pieces from the corners of boxes, apparently a 
covering around all the edges, nailed on with 
bronze nails; a piece of bronze plate, still fastened 
to the burnt wood with iron nails; a lock plate, 
perfect, and several pieces of others, and a bolt 
of a look; a bronze key of a form not apparently 
known before (B. M.) (pi. xii. 46), and another 
key (?) of the type in general Pitt Rivers’ work 
* This system was used ty the Assyrians, hut I do not 
know of its being hitherto found in Egypt nor in classical 
remains. 
