Plate XII, No. 4 is a blue jug having a piece of genuine mummy cloth stuffed in it. It was offered to me at Deir-el-Bahari. The seller asked £1 for it, but after some bargaining I bought it for 5_s._ It is made of very soft material and irregularly glazed. No. 5 shows a false-necked bottle. This is a good copy and has also been buried in manure. Plate XIII, No. 1 is a well-made winged scarab, but the four little figures, 2, 3, 4, 5, representing the sons of Horus, are not correct, as the faces should be those of a man, a dog-faced ape, a jackal, and a hawk; 6 and 8 are poppy heads, of beautiful colour. No. 7. The egg-shaped object represents sacred eyes. It is composed of soft material, is a very exact copy, and must have been most difficult to make. [Illustration: Small rough model of an Ibis, in Porcelain] There is a small blue-and-black porcelain ball also made and sold, but so soft is the material of which they are composed, that I failed to get one home in safety. Nos. 10 and 13 are two pectorals, one with the Hathor cow represented on it; the smaller one, which is extremely well made, bears the cartouche of Thothmes III., and has fixed upon it, near the top, a piece of an ancient bead—a clever idea and one well calculated to take in the unwary. [Illustration: Hathor] No. 11 is a blue lotus vase, made of soft material, and unevenly glazed. No. 12. This small bottle can hardly be called a forgery, and is well described by Wilkinson, who says: “Years ago some small bottles, having upon them Chinese inscriptions, were found in some tombs. These were held to establish a link between China and the ancient Egyptians. It is now known, however, that these bottles are of a comparatively recent period. M. Prisse discovered, by dint of questioning the Arabs of Cairo who were engaged in selling objects of antiquity, that the bottles were never found in tombs, and that the greater part of them came from Tous, Keft, and Kosseir, depôts of commerce with India on the Red Sea. The quality of these bottles is very inferior, and they appear to have been made before the manufacture of porcelain had attained the same degree of perfection in China as in after times. The interpretation of the inscriptions on some of these bottles has been given by Medhurst, and they are verses of poets who flourished in the seventh or eighth centuries A.D.” [Illustration: PLATE XI. BLUE PORCELAIN. 1 & 9. Represent the Goddess Taurt. 2. Jar with spout. 3. Anubis figure. 4. Boat with ram’s head. 5. Pectoral. 6. Buckle of Isis. 7. Lotus cup. 8. Ram-headed hawk.] The line engraving on page 108 represents a jar made of serpentine. It differs somewhat in shape from the originals, and has been made in two parts and then stuck together. The join is clearly shown in the illustration. [Illustration: Jar made of serpentine]