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Another in plaster, two inches eleven lin,es
high. (Fig. 2.)

Another in bronze, probably an Isis, three,
inches in height. {Fig. 3.)

A head in bronze, representing an Isis. This is,
not of Egyptian workmanship, but of the times
when the Greeks were masters of Egypt, (Fig. 4.)

The same may be said of another head of Isis in
alabaster, very fiat, and wearing the crescent.
{SeeJig. 6.) Its length is twenty-one lines.

Figure 5, is that of a beetle *, an insect held
sacred by the Egyptians. It is of black stone,
eighteen inches long, and thirteen broad.

A cynocephalus in porcelain, coated with apple-
green enamel. It is two inches high, and perfo-
rated, to be worn as an amulet. (See fig. 7.) I
met with another at Terrana, perfectly resembling
it, only not so large.

An Osiris holding the whip, in gilt bronze, two
inches high. (SeeJig. 8.)

* Scarabceus facer. Lin.

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