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rendered it serviceable for modelling into figures of deities,
scarabs, amulets, and other forms. It was also used for
small vases, which are generally decorated with parallel
bands of figures, mostly of animals, as in the early painted
vases; but here the outlines of the figures are drawn in
upon the clay while soft, and before the glaze was applied.
Many of these are of Egyptian fabric, and must have
been imported from Egypt: others may be called pseudo-
Egyptian, and were probably made by the Phoenicians as
articles of commerce in imitation of true Egyptian porce-
lain. These pseudo-Egyptian objects may be recognised
by the blundering manner in which the hieroglyphics and
symbols are represented. The following Egyptian deities
are represented in these porcelain statuettes, according
to Dr. Birch—Bes, Ptah Socharis, Pasht, Isis with Osiris
in her lap, Turn Nefer.
On an arybcdlos of pseudo-Egyptian art the head of the
goddess Athor is incised on one side, and on the other the
cow of Athor ; in the field are blundered hieroglyphics and
ornaments ; among the scarabs is one on which is incised
the pramomen of the king Thothmes III., who belongs to
the 18th dynasty.
Among these porcelain vases may be particularly noted
a small one in the form of a dolphin ; round the mouth of
the vase the words,.Pv6c<o e/ii, "I am (the dedication) of
Pytheas," incised in Archaic Greek characters. Hirschfeld,
Arch. Zeit. 1873, p. 108.
No. 3. Mould of an earring cut in upon stone ; similar
moulds have been found at Nimrud (see Assyrian Gallery,
Table Case 62), and more recently at Mycenaj.
No. 4. Stone pestle, probably for grinding corn, grooved
so as to admit of being grasped in the band.
No. 5. Shell, Tridacna squamosa, on the inside of which
a design is incised round the edge. On either side is a
winged female Sphinx, or other monster, couching; between
them a lotus-flower with buds; the two figures face each
other, and each has the right leg advanced. Their faces,
which have an Assyrian type, are seen in profile; the eye-
brow strongly marked, the eye not drawn in perspective,
the pupil indicated by a hole. They wear circular earrings ;
their hair, represented by incised diagonal lines, falls down
to their shoulders; the wings are spread very far on each
rendered it serviceable for modelling into figures of deities,
scarabs, amulets, and other forms. It was also used for
small vases, which are generally decorated with parallel
bands of figures, mostly of animals, as in the early painted
vases; but here the outlines of the figures are drawn in
upon the clay while soft, and before the glaze was applied.
Many of these are of Egyptian fabric, and must have
been imported from Egypt: others may be called pseudo-
Egyptian, and were probably made by the Phoenicians as
articles of commerce in imitation of true Egyptian porce-
lain. These pseudo-Egyptian objects may be recognised
by the blundering manner in which the hieroglyphics and
symbols are represented. The following Egyptian deities
are represented in these porcelain statuettes, according
to Dr. Birch—Bes, Ptah Socharis, Pasht, Isis with Osiris
in her lap, Turn Nefer.
On an arybcdlos of pseudo-Egyptian art the head of the
goddess Athor is incised on one side, and on the other the
cow of Athor ; in the field are blundered hieroglyphics and
ornaments ; among the scarabs is one on which is incised
the pramomen of the king Thothmes III., who belongs to
the 18th dynasty.
Among these porcelain vases may be particularly noted
a small one in the form of a dolphin ; round the mouth of
the vase the words,.Pv6c<o e/ii, "I am (the dedication) of
Pytheas," incised in Archaic Greek characters. Hirschfeld,
Arch. Zeit. 1873, p. 108.
No. 3. Mould of an earring cut in upon stone ; similar
moulds have been found at Nimrud (see Assyrian Gallery,
Table Case 62), and more recently at Mycenaj.
No. 4. Stone pestle, probably for grinding corn, grooved
so as to admit of being grasped in the band.
No. 5. Shell, Tridacna squamosa, on the inside of which
a design is incised round the edge. On either side is a
winged female Sphinx, or other monster, couching; between
them a lotus-flower with buds; the two figures face each
other, and each has the right leg advanced. Their faces,
which have an Assyrian type, are seen in profile; the eye-
brow strongly marked, the eye not drawn in perspective,
the pupil indicated by a hole. They wear circular earrings ;
their hair, represented by incised diagonal lines, falls down
to their shoulders; the wings are spread very far on each