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Dates and date-stones, found in a mummy-case in Egypt by Mr. Burton.
They resemble the present dates of Egypt in every particular. The stones of the dates of
Egypt are smooth, with a well-defined channel; on the opposite side is always a little round
mark, denoting the seat of the embryo, which the Copts say is the impression of the tooth of
the infant Saviour. The stones of the dates imported to this country from Belad E'gerit are
larger and excessively corrugated.
Raisins found in a tomb at Thebes.
No. 254 of Mr. Burton's sale in 1836. See the description of Lot No. 29 of Mr. Burton's
catalogue, and 256 and 257.
Six stones of the Persea : Al-Cobahh of the Arabs, Balanites Egyptiaca
of Delille, Allahe of the Nubians.
One single tree of the Persea was growing in the court-yard of a Greek church, in the Chris-
tian quarter of the city of Cairo, in the year 1845. A single specimen of the fruit was
presented to the British Museum in 1847.
The six stones under consideration do not appear to be those of the Persea, but of a species
of a palm of the desert, between Korosko and Abu Hamed, of which the fruit resembles
more that of the doom-tree than that of the palm.
No. 254 of Mr. Burton's sale. Date of the Desert (Flora Egyptienne—No. 738.)
An Egyptian iron key, found in a temple at Abusimbal.
Presented by E. B. B. Barker, in 1844.
Vide modern wooden locks and keys, brought by Dr. Lee from Cairo.
A circular stone, with a projecting loop for suspending. Hard black stone
Several small circles are engraved on it by the same tool. What it represents is by no means diameter,
certain.
346. A block of blue glass.
From the collection of Isaac Cullimore, Esq., a learned chronologist.
2 inches square.
Piece of ivory, which has formed part of some circular ornament, and Diameter, 2
been carved in six elliptical figures from the centre, and six semi-
elliptical, as if behind, and with a circular border round the whole.
It is the Egyptian way of representing the expanded lotus.
From Mr. Bruton's collection.
348. Flat piece of slate-stone, on both sides of which is an unfinished attempt siate. n inch,
to represent the figure of a child.
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344.
345.
347
Dates and date-stones, found in a mummy-case in Egypt by Mr. Burton.
They resemble the present dates of Egypt in every particular. The stones of the dates of
Egypt are smooth, with a well-defined channel; on the opposite side is always a little round
mark, denoting the seat of the embryo, which the Copts say is the impression of the tooth of
the infant Saviour. The stones of the dates imported to this country from Belad E'gerit are
larger and excessively corrugated.
Raisins found in a tomb at Thebes.
No. 254 of Mr. Burton's sale in 1836. See the description of Lot No. 29 of Mr. Burton's
catalogue, and 256 and 257.
Six stones of the Persea : Al-Cobahh of the Arabs, Balanites Egyptiaca
of Delille, Allahe of the Nubians.
One single tree of the Persea was growing in the court-yard of a Greek church, in the Chris-
tian quarter of the city of Cairo, in the year 1845. A single specimen of the fruit was
presented to the British Museum in 1847.
The six stones under consideration do not appear to be those of the Persea, but of a species
of a palm of the desert, between Korosko and Abu Hamed, of which the fruit resembles
more that of the doom-tree than that of the palm.
No. 254 of Mr. Burton's sale. Date of the Desert (Flora Egyptienne—No. 738.)
An Egyptian iron key, found in a temple at Abusimbal.
Presented by E. B. B. Barker, in 1844.
Vide modern wooden locks and keys, brought by Dr. Lee from Cairo.
A circular stone, with a projecting loop for suspending. Hard black stone
Several small circles are engraved on it by the same tool. What it represents is by no means diameter,
certain.
346. A block of blue glass.
From the collection of Isaac Cullimore, Esq., a learned chronologist.
2 inches square.
Piece of ivory, which has formed part of some circular ornament, and Diameter, 2
been carved in six elliptical figures from the centre, and six semi-
elliptical, as if behind, and with a circular border round the whole.
It is the Egyptian way of representing the expanded lotus.
From Mr. Bruton's collection.
348. Flat piece of slate-stone, on both sides of which is an unfinished attempt siate. n inch,
to represent the figure of a child.