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bronze or iron pin, throngh the wax. They con-
sist of a pair of folding boards, with sunk portions, on
which is a thin layer of wax in which has been traced in
Greek some lines of poetry, or a literary composition ; with
it are an iron ring, and jn shape of a crocodile.
5849c. Sycamore wood ; tessera, on it an inscription. It
refers to the payment of 70 drachms by Tathatis, son of
Zmenis.
5839a. Red terracotta; fragment of a vase; on it in
Greek, is a letter from Salutarius to Panox, abont certain
things ordered to be sent. From Thebes.
5790. Terracotta; fragment of a vase; receipt or acquit-
tance of Antonius Malchseus, harbour-master of Syene, to
Arpaesis, a goose-feeder, dated the 17th year of the Emperor
Trajan, A.D. 114. Elephantine.
5791. Terracotta; fragment of a vase ; receipt for Arpaesis
dated the 19th year of the Emperor Trajan, A.D. 116.
Elephantine.
5802. Terracotta; fragment of a vase ; receipt of Hera-
kleides and Isidorus, to Panubdis, dated the 5th year
of the Emperor Antoninus Pius, A.D. 142. Elephantine.
5811. Terracotta; fragment of a vase, having on it the
assessment and acquittance of Zenon, son of Herakleides, a
publican, for Panubdis, dated the 5th year of the Emperor
Antoninus Pius, A.D. 142. Elephantine.
5816. Terracotta ; fragment of a vase ; the acquittance or
receipt of Domitius, Psatinianus, and Primanus, to Arpaesis,
dated the 11th year of the Emperor Antoninus Pius, A.D.
148. Elephantine.
5819. Terracotta; fragment of a vase ; on it the acquit-
tance or receipt of Julius Domitius, a publican, for the
assessment of Panubdis, dated the 6th year of the Emperor
Antoninus Pius, A.D. 143. Elephantine.
5829. Terracotta; fragment of vase, with bilingual in-
scriptions in Greek and demotic; memorandum of some
event. Elephantine.
5890a. Terracotta; fragment of a vase ; demotic inscrip-
tion ; list of names. Elephantine.
4759& Terracotta; vase, or bottle, in shape of the head
of a negro.
4759a. Black-ware; small bottle, in shape of the god Bes,
or Besa; on the base the letter A, which often recurs on
the potteries of Alexandria, and is probably the initial of
the name of that city. From Alexandria.