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xiv DESCRIPTION OF THE WOODCUTS.
No. ' Page
65. Portable pocket-scales. The lead at A answers for one weight; at
b for another. It is probably not very ancient; and perhaps
only of Arab time . . . , . . 92
66. Gold ornaments; 3, a ring; 5, 6, ear-rings, as is, perhaps, fig. 1 93
67. Fig. 1, bracelet and armlet ; 2, a necklace..... 94
68. A gold necklace. In the Louvre (reduced to about one-third) . 95
09. Bracelet. Figs. 2, 3, catches or clasps, very like our modern ones 95
70. Ornaments, probably instead of fibuke, for securing dresses. Fig. 2
is very, like some of Saxon time (it was found by me, in Egypt).
The principle of them is not very intelligible . . . . 96
71. Gold bracelet, with coloured composition inlaid,—resembling, but
differing from, enamel, being merely inlaid. It is in the
Louvre ...........97
72. Gold basket, with ornaments engraved upon it . . . .97
73. Gold cup of Thothmes III. in the Louvre.....98
74. Man holding an instrument, which looks very like a portable
pump...........103
75. Manufacture of linen; women twisting the threads, winding off,
and making a piece of stuff in a horizontal loom . . . . 104
76. A box, with the boards, dovetailed. The carein joining the boards
of the lid (fig. 2.) is remarkable, being fitted together with
wooden tongues, which again are secured by pins through them 105
77. Carpenter's tools :•—fig. 1, a hatchet; 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, chisels;
. 10, two hand-sawsj 11, horn for oil; 12, 13, 14, wooden
. mallets. Some are bound round with linen cloth, having been
. buried in a tomb at Thebes . .......106
78. Fig. 1, an adze ; 2, the blade (in front); fig. 10, a centre-bit, or
drill, turned by the thong once fixed into fig. 6. It was held by
the nut 7, in which it worked. Figs. 4, 8, 11, awls, or small
chisels ; 12, 13, smoothing instruments held in the hand ; 5, a
sort of spatula. This and fig. 9 are thin flat blades, as if for
spreading something soft........107
79. Walking-sticks :—figs.. 1, 2, covered with cherry-bark; 3 has a
knob of ivory; the others a hook.....•. 109
80. Boxes.:—fig. 2, of ebony, inlaid with ivory; 2 and 3 are from
the paintings..........1Q9
81. Boxes for holding hold, or collyrium, for staining the edge of the
eyelids. Fig. 3 is the pin; 1 is of wood, 2 of stone . . . no
82. A small ivory figure holding a box, belonging to a toilette-table.
From Thebes, and now in the Museum at Alnwick Castle . Ill
No. ' Page
65. Portable pocket-scales. The lead at A answers for one weight; at
b for another. It is probably not very ancient; and perhaps
only of Arab time . . . , . . 92
66. Gold ornaments; 3, a ring; 5, 6, ear-rings, as is, perhaps, fig. 1 93
67. Fig. 1, bracelet and armlet ; 2, a necklace..... 94
68. A gold necklace. In the Louvre (reduced to about one-third) . 95
09. Bracelet. Figs. 2, 3, catches or clasps, very like our modern ones 95
70. Ornaments, probably instead of fibuke, for securing dresses. Fig. 2
is very, like some of Saxon time (it was found by me, in Egypt).
The principle of them is not very intelligible . . . . 96
71. Gold bracelet, with coloured composition inlaid,—resembling, but
differing from, enamel, being merely inlaid. It is in the
Louvre ...........97
72. Gold basket, with ornaments engraved upon it . . . .97
73. Gold cup of Thothmes III. in the Louvre.....98
74. Man holding an instrument, which looks very like a portable
pump...........103
75. Manufacture of linen; women twisting the threads, winding off,
and making a piece of stuff in a horizontal loom . . . . 104
76. A box, with the boards, dovetailed. The carein joining the boards
of the lid (fig. 2.) is remarkable, being fitted together with
wooden tongues, which again are secured by pins through them 105
77. Carpenter's tools :•—fig. 1, a hatchet; 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, chisels;
. 10, two hand-sawsj 11, horn for oil; 12, 13, 14, wooden
. mallets. Some are bound round with linen cloth, having been
. buried in a tomb at Thebes . .......106
78. Fig. 1, an adze ; 2, the blade (in front); fig. 10, a centre-bit, or
drill, turned by the thong once fixed into fig. 6. It was held by
the nut 7, in which it worked. Figs. 4, 8, 11, awls, or small
chisels ; 12, 13, smoothing instruments held in the hand ; 5, a
sort of spatula. This and fig. 9 are thin flat blades, as if for
spreading something soft........107
79. Walking-sticks :—figs.. 1, 2, covered with cherry-bark; 3 has a
knob of ivory; the others a hook.....•. 109
80. Boxes.:—fig. 2, of ebony, inlaid with ivory; 2 and 3 are from
the paintings..........1Q9
81. Boxes for holding hold, or collyrium, for staining the edge of the
eyelids. Fig. 3 is the pin; 1 is of wood, 2 of stone . . . no
82. A small ivory figure holding a box, belonging to a toilette-table.
From Thebes, and now in the Museum at Alnwick Castle . Ill