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3. Scarabaeus and ornaments taken from a tomb at Abydus, of the 
seventeenth Dynasty, about the time when Joseph was in 
Egypt. 1650, b.c. 
4. Ring of blue so-called porcelain, from a tomb at Thebes. Blue 
is the prevalent colour of these delicate ornaments; it is not 
probable that these rings, of a substance more fragile than 
glass, were worn during life. 
5. Scarabaeus and blue bugles. 
Beads and amulets in the shape of small figures were extensively 
manufactured by the Egyptian potters. If we may judge from 
the quantities still found after twenty or thirty centuries of devas¬ 
tation, millions of these objects must have been made for the deco¬ 
ration of the dead or living. They even formed an article of 
export, having been found in Greece and Italy, and among the 
ruins of Persepolis and of Nineveh. They comprise various deities, 
sacred animals, and religious emblems, studs for the hair, drops tor 
ear-rings, pendants, bracelets, and anklets, also scarabs of various 
sizes. Among the beads are bugles of blue porcelain strung in nets 
and formed, with other small globular beads, the exterior net-work of 
mummies. Other amulets and beads are found strung round the 
necks of mummies ; some have supposed that they were the neck¬ 
laces worn during life, but it is more probable that they were made 
for the dead. The gay and various colours seem to have been 
reserved for mummies embalmed in the most expensive manner. 
Persons of ordinary rank had only the usual blue bugles. These 
are probably not much older than the twenty-sixth dynasty, or 
about eight centuries before Christ. Deposited by Mr. Nightingale. 
6 to 11. Sepulchral figures. 
These formed an extensive branch of porcelain manufacture, and 
were ordered to be made according to the Egyptian ritual, a portion 
of which is either traced or stamped on the figure in hieroglyphics. 
They are usually represented with a pickaxe in the right hand, and 
a hoe in the left, also a cord, to which is attached a basket to hold 
the seed-corn. They are very commonly found in Egyptian tombs. 
It is supposed that the use of these figures was to aid the deceased 
in his labours of preparing and irrigating the ground, and raising 
the crop in the mystical fields of Elysium. 
12. Figure of Thoth, the ibis-headed, the Mercury of Egypt; re¬ 
presented in ordinary costume, with the left foot advanced in 
the act of walking. 
13. Small figure of the Celestial Isis. 
14. Four scarabs. 
Nos. 6 to 14. Deposited by Mr. E . T . Stevens . 
15. Scarabaeus of unusually large size. 
This object, so frequently met with in Egyptian tombs, repre- 
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