Produced by Chris Curnow, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) FORGED EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AGENTS AMERICA THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 64 & 66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK AUSTRALASIA THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 205 FLINDERS LANE, MELBOURNE CANADA THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA LTD. ST. MARTIN’S HOUSE, 70 BOND STREET, TORONTO INDIA MACMILLAN & COMPANY LTD. MACMILLAN BUILDING, BOMBAY 309 BOW BAZAAR STREET, CALCUTTA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: PLATE 1. A BLUE CANOPIC JAR, WITH ANUBIS HEAD. This is an imitation of porcelain and shows very well the unevenness of the modern glaze. Such jars were used to contain the internal organs of the dead and were placed in the tomb beside the mummy.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FORGED EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES BY T. G. WAKELING AUTHOR OF “THE WHITE KNIGHTS” ETC. [Illustration: Decoration] ADAM & CHARLES BLACK 4 SOHO SQUARE LONDON 1912 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BALLANTYNE & COMPANY LTD TAVISTOCK STREET COVENT GARDEN LONDON ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREFATORY NOTE I WISH to express my indebtedness to Mr. and Mrs. Firth, of the Nubian Archæological Survey, and to Dr. G. A. Reisner, of the Harvard University Expedition, for their kindness in assisting me. Plates I, II, XII and XVI were prepared from water-colour drawings made by Miss Enid Stoddard, but all of the others have been reproduced direct from the objects themselves. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS