Birch, Samuel [Hrsg.]: Catalogue of the collection of Egyptian antiquities at Alnwick Castle (London, 1880)

232 SEPULCHEAL AMULETS.

the altar of the Sun, and to be declared true or acquitted against all his enemies
or accusers. The present specimen has been gilded. If in. high. Lapis lazuli.

1726. Similar object; not gilded. 1% in. high. Lapis lazuli.

1727. Similar object, grooved behind, f in. high. Lapis lazuli.

1728. Similar specimen. § in. high. Same material.

1729. Tat, or so-called nilometer, with four bars down the body, round it
eleven grooves : plinth behind, pierced, lj in. high. Lapis lazuli.

1730. Similar object; four grooves round the body. 1% in. high. Same
material.

1731. Similar object; three grooves round the body. 1 in. high. Same

material.

1732. Similar object; four grooves round the body. | in. high. Same
material.

1733. Similar object; no grooves round the body, f- in. high. Same

material.

1734. Similar object; no grooves round the body, f in. high. Same

material.

1735. Similar object. ^ in. high. Same material.

1736. Similar object; five grooves round the body. § in. high. Same
material.

1737. Similar object, carved on both sides; 3 grooves round the body: ring
above, -f in. high. Red carnelian.

1738. Similar object; six grooves or bands round the body: plinth, not
pierced. ■§■ in. high. Red carnelian.

1739. Similar object. ■§■ in. high. Same material.

1740. Similar object; four grooves round the body, f- in. high. Same
material.

1741. Similar object; four grooves round the body. 1 in. high. Same
material.

1742. Similar object; two grooves round the body, § in. high. Same

material.

1743. Amulet in shape of an unknown object, supposed by some to be a
terebra or bore, and used in hieroglyphs for the syllable sam, meaning union;