Sonnini de Manoncourt, Charles Nicolas Sigisbert: Travels in upper and lower Egypt (Band 2) (London, 1807)

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fragments, which the inhabitants sold me, and
which I shall enumerate here.

A small figure in bronze, three inches high.
{See Plate XIII. fig. i.)

An Isis in plaster. Height three inches nine
lines. (Fig. 2.)

A hawk in bronze. Height ten lines. (Fig. 4.)

A head of Isis in terra-cotta. Height two inches j
breadth at the base an inch and half. (Fig. 6.)

A fine bust of Isis, with the cressent, and the
modius, in white stone, two feet high. (See Plate
XIV.)

Two figures, winch appear to be tragic masks,
similar to those that are seen at the angles of sarco-
phagi. (See Plate XF. fig. 1 ami 2.) The first
is of basaltes, and eleven inches high. The se-
cond is of mortar, and nine inches in height.

A figure, two inches nine lines in height, made
of porcelain, and coated with an enamel, of the
colour of the aqua marina. (See Plate XVI.

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