Edwards, Amelia B.: Pharaohs, fellahs and explorers (New York, NY, 1892)

28 PHARAOHS, FELLAHS, AND EXPLORERS.

fragments of archaic vases painted in black and crimson on
a buff ground with figures of griffins, hogs, and the like;
fragments of light brown ware with archaic animals in
black and red, the ground parseme with flowers; others of
the finest work, witli figures of horses, goddesses, and so
forth, left in the brown body on a black ground; and a
great abundance of all the common sorts of red pottery
with raised patterns of lines and balls, brown with red fret-
work, black on bronze picked out with chocolate and white,
and many more varieties than I have space to enumerate.
With these he also found fragments of Greek and Cypriote
statuettes in limestone and alabaster; pottery and limestone
whorls (some notched where worn by the thread); stamped
amphora-handles, Greek and Egyptian weights, beads, terra-
cotta statuettes, and small objects of various kinds in green
glazed Avare.

StrangePy enough, Mr. Petrie seems to have had no sus-
picion of the truth, and when, on the fourth day after his
arrival at Nebireh, he discovered a limestone slab engraved
with an inscription in honor of one Ileliodorus, a citizen of
Naukratis, he was utterly taken by surprise. " I almost
jumped," he said, " when I read these words :*

" ' The City of Naukratis [honors]
Ileliodorus, son of Doriou Philo . . .
Priest of Athena for life . . .
Keeper of The Records for virtue and good-will.'"

So, here was Naukratis—that ancient and famous mart
where Greek and Egyptian first dwelt and traded together
on equal terms; Naukratis, founded, as it is believed, by
Milesian colonists; granted,with special privileges and char-
ters, to the Hellenic tribes by Amasis II. of the Twen-

* H nOAIi: H NATKPAT II . . .
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TON. . . BATHS A6HNA2 AIAUION . . .
STI. . . PA*0<l>VAA APET2KA . . .
EXEK.TH2 EIS ATTHN . . .