Nicholson, Charles: Aegyptiaca (London, 1891)

catalogue of egyptian antiquities. 45

cessively hard stone. On the reverse are engraved two
scorpions. Perforated through the longest diameter.
§ inch.

153. Double Figure of the God Ptah
Sokerosiris. Porcelain, covered with a blue glaze,
-f inch.

154. A Tablet of Hard Porcelain, covered
with a blue glaze. Four furrows traverse the back
and front, crossing each other in the middle. 1 inch
long, f- inch wide, and perforated through the longest
diameter.

155. Figure of Typhon, in combination with
figures and emblems not to be made out. It has
a contrivance for suspending it at the top, and
probably belonged to a necklace. Hard porcelain,
blue glaze, if inches.

156. Two Cowries. These shells are still held
in great estimation in Nubia, and in the interior of
Africa generally.

157. An Amulet, representing the human eye,
with certain curious appendages to the lower lid,
rarely omitted. It is in hard porcelain, covered
with a blue glaze, the pupil and eyebrow black. It
is perforated for suspending, f- inch.

158. Fragments of Plain Blue Glazed Por-
celain Rings, from f inch to f inch in diameter.

159. Two Rings of porcelain, of a fine blue
vitreous glaze. The larger, -| inch, bearing the
device of the eye ; the smaller, § inch, bearing the
device of the cobra snake (the urseus) with disk on
head.