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NAUKRATIS.

rough chipped to a fairly smooth curve above. Hard
white limestone.

313. Soft white limestone.

316. The only leaden weight of the type so common
at Alexandria; nearly all the lead of Naukratis is in
thinner pieces, or flat sheets.

332. Looks more as if a mediasval piece.

333. Like 306, but under side a face of dressed
building stone (?).

338. Burnt white limestone, powdery. The X on
the top may be the Roman numeral X.

352. Hardish grey limestone.

353. Finehard whitelimestone,colour andformas299.

354. 355. Attic, and not kat standard by the
multiples.

356. Attic by the connection with No. 279.

357. Attic by the rounded form.

358. 359. Attic by the multiples.

360. Phoenician by resemblance to 383.

361. A very hard black silicate, taking a high
polish; like Nos. 401, 435, and 451; all rectangular,
two Phoenician, and two ^Eginetan.

368. Browny-white quartzite; rough in shape, with
a hollow in the top.

371. White marble, crumbly.

377. Found in loose stuff over the scarab factory.

379. Found just inside the B. wall of the temenos
of the Dioskouroi. Vth cent. B.C. (?).

380. Brownish-grey, limestone pebble, ground flat
below; like 227, but browner.

386. Looks much like a piece of a granite corn-
rubber, trimmed down at the ends, and rounded.

389. From burnt potter's rubbish in N. town. Level
300. Vlth cent. b.c.

397. Found with Assyrian weights. (See 268.) Level
400. Vth cent. b.c.

399. Very peculiar form, as if two barrel weights
conjoined.

400. Hard polished white limestone (or magnesite ?)
flawed.

401. See No. 361.

404. White limestone, like Nos. 203, 20*, 253.
409. Hard white limestone.

418. A remarkable example of a bronze case with
less than one-sixth filled with lead.

419. Hard browny-white limestone.
422. White saccharine marble.

425. Softish grey limestone.

426. Harder grey-brown limestone; these four disc
weights (422, 425 to 427), closely agreeing is remark-
able, as the type does not occur again.

434. Black and white syenite, like No. 2, &c.

435. See 361.

444. Very soft white limestone.

451. See 361.

455. Hard greyish-white limestone.

461. This very strange block has been hollowed out
with a conical hole in the top ; this hole is picked, and
not ground, except just at the edge; hence it cannot
be the head-piece for a bow-drill. It is possibly
intended to hold a metal weight.

464. Hard browny-white limestone.

475. Finely worked, and with a hole in the bottom
for adjustment by lead plugging. Found in Ptolemaic
house on E. side of town, Illrd cent, b.c, with Nos.
13, 65, 281, and 489. Find 93.

477. Hard white limestone.

479. The three marks on this weight (see fig. 94)
are inlaid with silver, and the weight is of fine work.
There is a square bronze weight in Brit. Mus., from
Egypt, marked T @ H, which weighs 176-2. If it
were divided by 9 (in accordance with the ®) there
would be a unit of 19-6, which might go 12 times in
241; but such a unit would not agree with any standard,
unless it were one-fourth of the 80-grain standard, to
which this is already classed.

484. Soft white limestone; roughly shaped.

489. Found with Nos. 13, 65, 281, and 475 in
Ptolemaic house of Illrd cent. B.C. Find 93.

494. The two marked on this refers prpbably to its
being half of the uncia; compare similar marks for
fractions on Assyrian lion weights, and the numeration
of Triens, Quadrans, Quincunx, and Sextans.

495. This is a type of form very usual in black
stone weights. (See Brit. Mus.)

498. This type of weight has never been attributed
yet; such weights are placed among the unclassed at
Bulak, and are unlabelled in the British Museum.
As this type is commonly to be met with in the bazaars
of Cairo in use, and not showing any signs of great
age, and as none of the weights of this type show
such signs of age as Ptolemaic and earlier weights show,
it seems clear that they are Cufic and Arabic. As,
further, the unit of them is exactly the dirhem, and
wukiyeh of 10 dirhems, there cannot remain any
doubt on the question.

500, 513. These discs are of a curious type; they
agree to the wukiyeh, they do not show any sign of
great age, and disc weights are in common use among
the Arabs now.

512. This is one of the latest class of glass weights,
with the flowing Arab script, instead of the Cufic.
These glass weights, and Arab weights in general,
were many of them bought of travelling dealers at
Nebireh market, and none of them belong to the site
of Naukratis.