Petrie, William M. Flinders: Abydos: Part I: 1902 (London, 1902)

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ABYDOS I.

cup and 34 for a wide shallow dish ; the other
grinders are placed in base view, showing the
hollow or notch on each side by which they
were held in a stick so as to be turned round.
They were usually found in a layer of white
sand and stone dust, evidently the refuse of the
grinding powder which was used with them.
The levels of these showed that they belong to
all parts of the 1st Dynasty. With these we
must connect the crescent flints (xxvi, 305—
314), which were mostly found in a stratum of
sand and stone dust, sloping between 80 and
50 level; from such association it is clear that
they were used for the vase business, and as
preliminary drills they would be effective on
most of the stones that were worked. Their
age runs throughout the 1st Dynasty. Similar
crescent flints have been found in the Illrd
Dynasty at Beit Khallaf.

35, 36. These rough red pottery figures of a

hippopotamus head, and a kneeling leg, were
found loose in the rubbish, and therefore un-
dated ; they are of the same class as the early
pottery figures from Koptos.

37. A very rough squatting figure in lime-
stone, found at the base of the town.

38. A strange piece of a large object of red
pottery, marked all over with deeply cut
triangles ; possibly part of an animal figure.

39. A torso of a human figure in rough
pottery.

40. Pottery figures of kine, of which the
upper one is fairly modelled: they were found
at 55 level, about the age of Zet, in the S.E.
corner of a space filled Avith sand, which may
have been the foundation of a building. In
that case the space was probably dug down
as a hollow, and hence the town level would
be higher then, about the end of the 1st
Dynasty.

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