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THE EXPLORER IN EGYPT.
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FOUNDATION DEPOSITS OF TTOLEMY rHILADELrHCS, B.C. 28G-274.
The model mortar is the most distant object in the group, which consists of seven
ranks. In the second rank are the corn-rubbers, ?'.e. two pieces of red granite,
the one concave, the other convex. Rank 3, two libation vases in green glazed
ware. Rank 4, four libation cups in same ware. Rank 5, bronze trowels and
chisels, and two pegs of alabaster. Rank 6, bronze hatchet, chisels, sacrificial
knife, and two pegs of alabaster. Rank 7, specimens of materials, mud brick ;
plaque of glazed ware; ingois of gold, silver, lead, copper, and iron ; fragments
of lapis lazuli, agate, jasper, turquoise, and obsidian. This set of masonic de-
posits, as also those discovered by M. Xaville at Tell Qarmus, are in the British
Museum.
was the first European traveller who had set foot in that
secluded hamlet; and when lie applied for permission to
excavate the mound, he found the place unknown, even
by name, to the official world at Bulak. The painted pot-
sherds with which the place was strewn, literally " thick as
leaves in Vallombrosa," proved on examination to be even
more beautiful and various than he had at first supposed.
Here were cup-handles with men's heads modelled in relief;
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FOUNDATION DEPOSITS OF TTOLEMY rHILADELrHCS, B.C. 28G-274.
The model mortar is the most distant object in the group, which consists of seven
ranks. In the second rank are the corn-rubbers, ?'.e. two pieces of red granite,
the one concave, the other convex. Rank 3, two libation vases in green glazed
ware. Rank 4, four libation cups in same ware. Rank 5, bronze trowels and
chisels, and two pegs of alabaster. Rank 6, bronze hatchet, chisels, sacrificial
knife, and two pegs of alabaster. Rank 7, specimens of materials, mud brick ;
plaque of glazed ware; ingois of gold, silver, lead, copper, and iron ; fragments
of lapis lazuli, agate, jasper, turquoise, and obsidian. This set of masonic de-
posits, as also those discovered by M. Xaville at Tell Qarmus, are in the British
Museum.
was the first European traveller who had set foot in that
secluded hamlet; and when lie applied for permission to
excavate the mound, he found the place unknown, even
by name, to the official world at Bulak. The painted pot-
sherds with which the place was strewn, literally " thick as
leaves in Vallombrosa," proved on examination to be even
more beautiful and various than he had at first supposed.
Here were cup-handles with men's heads modelled in relief;