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TELL EL YAHUDIYEH.
About ten rude and unpainted coffins were found
in it, without any brick work,1 and two burial
urns for children, of the form of the largest vessel
shown in the photograph.3 This one was closed
by a plain saucer.
The remains in VIIL are ruder than in I. —VI. I think
they are poor burials of the XXth dynasty, mixed with
later ones.
Food vase, deep rimmed jar, and saucer from one grave,
(the three smaller vessels shown in PI. xii. 3), XXth dynasty.
Vase, type PI. xiv. 5, with grater, XXth dynasty.
Jug, type PI. xv. 10, white-faced ware, XXth dynasty.
Vase, type PI. xv. 4, coarse red ware.
Vase, PI. xvi. 7, very irregular, coarse white ware.
Flat flask with long handles, 8, coarse white ware,
XXIInd (?)
A grave, probably of a child, furnished a necklace, PI.
xvi. Turn. viii. a-e. It consisted of a small flat incised right
eye of green porcelain, the pupil black (resembling those of
the XX Vlth dynasty, and not coarsely moulded in the round
like the earlier ones) a small scarab in agate, and the follow-
ing beads:—
Material.
Form in plane of
axis.
Size.
(Axial
length x
diameter.)
Form in
the Plate.
Remarks.
Jasper and earnelian.
Rounded.
~k X
e.
Several.
Carnelian.
Agate.
Carnelian.
Oval, &o.
Sharply cari-
nated.
)>
3 2 ^ 3 2
Ax i&
smaller.
d.
c.
c.
One.
A few.
Also a number of decomposed glass and inferior porcelain
beads which were blown away by a gust of wind.
The general result of the excavations in the
tumuli is to show that they belong to the XXth
dynasty, at least as the central period. Out of
the first seven tumuli, there is nothing certainly
later or earlier than this, while the finding of
scarabs of Kameses III. and VI., in agreement
with the fact that the most striking type amongst
the pottery, "the false amphora," is found in the
paintings of the tomb of Barneses III., fixes the
date. At the same period the royal hall was built
in the city, and although there were no great
local dignitaries who would live and die in the
place and be buried in stately tombs, there must
have been many well-to-do people in the city who
could afford themselves respectable burial in these
tumuli.
A factory of glass and porcelain beads, &c, in
the south-east part of the town, belonged to about
the same period, and furnished us with many
objects.
The greater part of the waste-heap, or floor, on which they
had been deposited, had been cut away; but a corner
remained at the base of a high pillar of rubbish. The un-
touched earth was full of beads and minute ornaments in
porcelain, and in an hour (all that could be spared) I col-
lected a sufficient number of examples to verify most of the
objects produced from it by the sabbakhin, see PI. xi.
Terra Cotta Moulds, neatly and smoothly formed, of an oval
shape, and grooved to admit of piercing the amulet,
viz. for
Sacred eyes of three sizes.
Pigmy Ptah, small and plain.
Sekhet, small, one.
Small flower pendant, as I.
Products. White glazed ware (faded from green (?) ). The
hippopotamus c (bought from a sebakh digger close
to the spot to which I afterwards traced the workshop);
small uta's, flower pendants I.; circular buttons with
loops at the back li. (Some of the uta's, pendants and
buttons, together with several plain rings, are green.)
Black glazed ware. Small eyes, flower pendants I.
Miscellaneous. Pieces of greenish slag.
Fragments of pottery crucible (?) with bubbles of irides-
cent pearly-white glass.
A number of cylindrical rods of the same pearly half-
decomposed glass.
Fragments of a bronze pin or needle, evidently the tool
for piercing amulets while in the moulds.
Irregular flake of flint (from the sabbakhin) a.
Instrument of flint resembling a borer fairly veil
chipped (found not by myself, but in my presence,
and I have every reason to believe in its authen-
ticity) b.
Beads.
Material.
Form in plane of
axis.
Size.
(Axial
length x
diarneW',
See PI. xiii. 1.
2 PI.
3.
' Phoenician' opaque 1
glass, the colours (
faded to white f
with darker bands J
f
Similar, traces of (
other colours. )
Do.
Similar, white.
Form in
the Plate.
1 X |
Irregular, pipe
shaped.
Globular, or
rounded,oroval smaller.
i X
Globular.
Oval.
I X
Remarks.
One.
Abnndant
One ortwo.
One.
TELL EL YAHUDIYEH.
About ten rude and unpainted coffins were found
in it, without any brick work,1 and two burial
urns for children, of the form of the largest vessel
shown in the photograph.3 This one was closed
by a plain saucer.
The remains in VIIL are ruder than in I. —VI. I think
they are poor burials of the XXth dynasty, mixed with
later ones.
Food vase, deep rimmed jar, and saucer from one grave,
(the three smaller vessels shown in PI. xii. 3), XXth dynasty.
Vase, type PI. xiv. 5, with grater, XXth dynasty.
Jug, type PI. xv. 10, white-faced ware, XXth dynasty.
Vase, type PI. xv. 4, coarse red ware.
Vase, PI. xvi. 7, very irregular, coarse white ware.
Flat flask with long handles, 8, coarse white ware,
XXIInd (?)
A grave, probably of a child, furnished a necklace, PI.
xvi. Turn. viii. a-e. It consisted of a small flat incised right
eye of green porcelain, the pupil black (resembling those of
the XX Vlth dynasty, and not coarsely moulded in the round
like the earlier ones) a small scarab in agate, and the follow-
ing beads:—
Material.
Form in plane of
axis.
Size.
(Axial
length x
diameter.)
Form in
the Plate.
Remarks.
Jasper and earnelian.
Rounded.
~k X
e.
Several.
Carnelian.
Agate.
Carnelian.
Oval, &o.
Sharply cari-
nated.
)>
3 2 ^ 3 2
Ax i&
smaller.
d.
c.
c.
One.
A few.
Also a number of decomposed glass and inferior porcelain
beads which were blown away by a gust of wind.
The general result of the excavations in the
tumuli is to show that they belong to the XXth
dynasty, at least as the central period. Out of
the first seven tumuli, there is nothing certainly
later or earlier than this, while the finding of
scarabs of Kameses III. and VI., in agreement
with the fact that the most striking type amongst
the pottery, "the false amphora," is found in the
paintings of the tomb of Barneses III., fixes the
date. At the same period the royal hall was built
in the city, and although there were no great
local dignitaries who would live and die in the
place and be buried in stately tombs, there must
have been many well-to-do people in the city who
could afford themselves respectable burial in these
tumuli.
A factory of glass and porcelain beads, &c, in
the south-east part of the town, belonged to about
the same period, and furnished us with many
objects.
The greater part of the waste-heap, or floor, on which they
had been deposited, had been cut away; but a corner
remained at the base of a high pillar of rubbish. The un-
touched earth was full of beads and minute ornaments in
porcelain, and in an hour (all that could be spared) I col-
lected a sufficient number of examples to verify most of the
objects produced from it by the sabbakhin, see PI. xi.
Terra Cotta Moulds, neatly and smoothly formed, of an oval
shape, and grooved to admit of piercing the amulet,
viz. for
Sacred eyes of three sizes.
Pigmy Ptah, small and plain.
Sekhet, small, one.
Small flower pendant, as I.
Products. White glazed ware (faded from green (?) ). The
hippopotamus c (bought from a sebakh digger close
to the spot to which I afterwards traced the workshop);
small uta's, flower pendants I.; circular buttons with
loops at the back li. (Some of the uta's, pendants and
buttons, together with several plain rings, are green.)
Black glazed ware. Small eyes, flower pendants I.
Miscellaneous. Pieces of greenish slag.
Fragments of pottery crucible (?) with bubbles of irides-
cent pearly-white glass.
A number of cylindrical rods of the same pearly half-
decomposed glass.
Fragments of a bronze pin or needle, evidently the tool
for piercing amulets while in the moulds.
Irregular flake of flint (from the sabbakhin) a.
Instrument of flint resembling a borer fairly veil
chipped (found not by myself, but in my presence,
and I have every reason to believe in its authen-
ticity) b.
Beads.
Material.
Form in plane of
axis.
Size.
(Axial
length x
diarneW',
See PI. xiii. 1.
2 PI.
3.
' Phoenician' opaque 1
glass, the colours (
faded to white f
with darker bands J
f
Similar, traces of (
other colours. )
Do.
Similar, white.
Form in
the Plate.
1 X |
Irregular, pipe
shaped.
Globular, or
rounded,oroval smaller.
i X
Globular.
Oval.
I X
Remarks.
One.
Abnndant
One ortwo.
One.