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NOTES ON r-LATES.
secutivc. These plates will appear later with those
of the second part.
Pl. II. Life-size limestone figure.—This figure
was greatly decomposed by the wetness of the ground,
and required much care in handling to avoid pressing
it out of shape or abrading it, hence it has lost the
finer details. The type of face is wide and coarse,
but seems to have elements other than the Negro-
Libyan, such as is seen on Pl. VI (see Schweinfurth
in Verhand. Berl. Ges. Anthrop. 1898, p. 182). The
thick long hair and short beard are like those of the
first standard-bearer on the slate palette of Nar-mer,
PL. XXIX. (In Cairo Museum.)
Block of limestone.—A fragment with a bull's head
and a bird in relief, possibly part of a table of
offerings.
Granite door-jamb of Kha-sekhemui. Dyn. II.—
This great block of grey granite is the oldest piece of
inscribed building-stone known. It was left on the
site, pending its removal to the Cairo Museum. The
repetitions of the Horus-and-Set name of the king
arc in the same taste as the repetitions of the Horus-
name in the step-pyramid of Saqqara. The inscrip-
tion is identical with that on the objects found in this
king's tomb at Abydos.
PL. III. Great flint knives.—These flints, about
2 feet and 2^ feet in length (see scale of centimetres
below) are ceremonial objects found in the temple,
analogous to the great palette (Pl. XXIX) and great
mace-heads (Pl. XXV). They are formed by
trimming a naturally thin layer of flint or chert, such
as is found abundantly in the Eocene limestone of
Upper Egypt.
Door-socket.—This block of dark, tough, quartzose
rock is a door-socket which was found with a jamb
standing on it in position, and has the pivot-hole in
the top of it. It is left rough on most of the sides for
building in to the masonry around, but a human head
projects from the front corner of it, apparently a
similar idea to the enemies being crushed under the
door of Hades as mentioned in the Book of the
Dead. See also the corbels, with the heads of
enemies supporting weights, in the palace of
Rameses III at Medinet Habu. Two somewhat
similar heads of foreigners in hard quartzose stone
were lately sold at Thebes (now in Univ. Coll. Lond.),
and these doubtless came from other early door-
sockets.
Pl. IV. Revetment of Temple Basement.—The
sides of this excavation are of undisturbed earth not
yet removed : the stick in the foreground is two
metres in length. At the back is the revetment of
rough stones, which retained the earth upon which
the temple was built. This revetment ran round in
a curved or almost circular form. It is similar in
the style of its material and construction to the rough
stone mastaba-pyramids of El Kuleh, Nubt, El
Amrah, etc. which are now known to belong almost
certainly to the Ilnd dynasty.
Pes. V-VI, Dyn. 0. The great mass of objects
found together, which are throughout these plates
marked as Main DEPOSIT, include carvings of Nar-
mer, Pls. XV, 7, and XXIX, and of the Scorpion
King, PlS. XIX, XXXIV. Hence it must be attributed
to the time immediately before Mena. The limestone
head (figs. 1, 2, 3) represents the mixed'Negro-Libyan
type ; the short half-curly hair, and the thick projecting
lips clearly come from the negro ; while the long face
and well-formed nose are due to Libyan blood. The
ivory head (figs. 4, 5), is apparently of pure Libyan
stock ; the high well-formed forehead, the long
straight nose, the reserved lips, and the straight
beard, all belong to the Amorite and fair European
type.
The fragment of a boat, and the boats in relief,
(Pl. V) show that boats were then familiar ; indeed, the
general form of the boats with large steering oars is
like that seen upon the vases and wall-paintings of
the prehistoric time, but the arrangement of the
cabins seems to have here become more complex.
Fig. 6 is a piece ofv carved ivory tusk, which is
drawn in PL. XVI, 4. The elephants standing on hills,
in the second line, are like that in the relief on the
Min statue from Koptos. (See Koptos, III, 3.) In
the bottom line, the row of human figures appear to
be carrying some sacred object.
Fig. 7. This ivory bears a carving of rows of bound
captives. It was greatly decomposed, as were all the
other ivories, owing to the wetness of the soil, and it
is here photographed from a plaster cast.
PLS. VII, VIII, IX, X, Dyn. 0. These fragments
of human figures appear all to belong to one of the
native races before the dynastic period. The only
kilt-dress like the later Egyptian in style, is that on
the figure shown in PL. VIII, 2, X, 9. The other
figures of the men all have the same sheath that is
seen in the prehistoric carvings and paintings. (See
Dr. Naville's paper in Recueil, 1900.) The head,
VII, 2 ; VIII, 6, comes from a seated figure, and
represents a foreigner. The only draped female
figures arc wrapped round in thick cloaks, either plain
Vhi5the
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NOTES ON r-LATES.
secutivc. These plates will appear later with those
of the second part.
Pl. II. Life-size limestone figure.—This figure
was greatly decomposed by the wetness of the ground,
and required much care in handling to avoid pressing
it out of shape or abrading it, hence it has lost the
finer details. The type of face is wide and coarse,
but seems to have elements other than the Negro-
Libyan, such as is seen on Pl. VI (see Schweinfurth
in Verhand. Berl. Ges. Anthrop. 1898, p. 182). The
thick long hair and short beard are like those of the
first standard-bearer on the slate palette of Nar-mer,
PL. XXIX. (In Cairo Museum.)
Block of limestone.—A fragment with a bull's head
and a bird in relief, possibly part of a table of
offerings.
Granite door-jamb of Kha-sekhemui. Dyn. II.—
This great block of grey granite is the oldest piece of
inscribed building-stone known. It was left on the
site, pending its removal to the Cairo Museum. The
repetitions of the Horus-and-Set name of the king
arc in the same taste as the repetitions of the Horus-
name in the step-pyramid of Saqqara. The inscrip-
tion is identical with that on the objects found in this
king's tomb at Abydos.
PL. III. Great flint knives.—These flints, about
2 feet and 2^ feet in length (see scale of centimetres
below) are ceremonial objects found in the temple,
analogous to the great palette (Pl. XXIX) and great
mace-heads (Pl. XXV). They are formed by
trimming a naturally thin layer of flint or chert, such
as is found abundantly in the Eocene limestone of
Upper Egypt.
Door-socket.—This block of dark, tough, quartzose
rock is a door-socket which was found with a jamb
standing on it in position, and has the pivot-hole in
the top of it. It is left rough on most of the sides for
building in to the masonry around, but a human head
projects from the front corner of it, apparently a
similar idea to the enemies being crushed under the
door of Hades as mentioned in the Book of the
Dead. See also the corbels, with the heads of
enemies supporting weights, in the palace of
Rameses III at Medinet Habu. Two somewhat
similar heads of foreigners in hard quartzose stone
were lately sold at Thebes (now in Univ. Coll. Lond.),
and these doubtless came from other early door-
sockets.
Pl. IV. Revetment of Temple Basement.—The
sides of this excavation are of undisturbed earth not
yet removed : the stick in the foreground is two
metres in length. At the back is the revetment of
rough stones, which retained the earth upon which
the temple was built. This revetment ran round in
a curved or almost circular form. It is similar in
the style of its material and construction to the rough
stone mastaba-pyramids of El Kuleh, Nubt, El
Amrah, etc. which are now known to belong almost
certainly to the Ilnd dynasty.
Pes. V-VI, Dyn. 0. The great mass of objects
found together, which are throughout these plates
marked as Main DEPOSIT, include carvings of Nar-
mer, Pls. XV, 7, and XXIX, and of the Scorpion
King, PlS. XIX, XXXIV. Hence it must be attributed
to the time immediately before Mena. The limestone
head (figs. 1, 2, 3) represents the mixed'Negro-Libyan
type ; the short half-curly hair, and the thick projecting
lips clearly come from the negro ; while the long face
and well-formed nose are due to Libyan blood. The
ivory head (figs. 4, 5), is apparently of pure Libyan
stock ; the high well-formed forehead, the long
straight nose, the reserved lips, and the straight
beard, all belong to the Amorite and fair European
type.
The fragment of a boat, and the boats in relief,
(Pl. V) show that boats were then familiar ; indeed, the
general form of the boats with large steering oars is
like that seen upon the vases and wall-paintings of
the prehistoric time, but the arrangement of the
cabins seems to have here become more complex.
Fig. 6 is a piece ofv carved ivory tusk, which is
drawn in PL. XVI, 4. The elephants standing on hills,
in the second line, are like that in the relief on the
Min statue from Koptos. (See Koptos, III, 3.) In
the bottom line, the row of human figures appear to
be carrying some sacred object.
Fig. 7. This ivory bears a carving of rows of bound
captives. It was greatly decomposed, as were all the
other ivories, owing to the wetness of the soil, and it
is here photographed from a plaster cast.
PLS. VII, VIII, IX, X, Dyn. 0. These fragments
of human figures appear all to belong to one of the
native races before the dynastic period. The only
kilt-dress like the later Egyptian in style, is that on
the figure shown in PL. VIII, 2, X, 9. The other
figures of the men all have the same sheath that is
seen in the prehistoric carvings and paintings. (See
Dr. Naville's paper in Recueil, 1900.) The head,
VII, 2 ; VIII, 6, comes from a seated figure, and
represents a foreigner. The only draped female
figures arc wrapped round in thick cloaks, either plain
Vhi5the
Dyn.
0.
iven-rep-
K of *e leg
This
the i
. also 1
igure,
l^attheel
\x beard and
jecetffi
'.ietoptosecu«
,«nttoPhiladel
Dyn. 0.
^here drawn d
::1and probably
; probably from a
siith three rows
•:.the developed
' captives
p of a dog, in thi
1 tarn develope
::M spoon, with
:; of the bowl
'-'■■ Portions of
stated in gaz
1 in danc
Dyn. 0. (
it show
^crania, 0
' Th's reminc
[aimals, cut ;
:K whic
e Liby
^the XHth
■ %an
veers, D}
1': 3. and
Some
neoftl
^ptr,