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DOCTOR.—INSTRUMENTS.—LADLES.
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assigned, or when bells were first invented. Knives of various
forms have also been found; one of which, now in the Louvre
collection, has a place for the fingers rather than a handle, in
the curved shape of a goose's neck. Its whole length is twelve
F
(W. 90.) I
inches (woodcut 92, fig. 1). Bronze needles were not un-
common, about the size of those we have for rough sewing, or
three and a-half inches long; and a pair of bronze tongs, found
at Thebes, and now in the British Museum, are remarkable for
their finish, and for the very Egyptian caprice of making the
two ends in the form of fish. They even retain their elasticity—
the sides being kept apart by a block of wood.
Bronze timpula, or ladles, frequently gilt, used for taking
liquids out of vases, are also found; and one in the Louvre has
its bowl in the strange form of an oryx, the emblem of the
god Pthah-Sokari-Osiris (woodcut 92, fig. 3) ; but weapons of
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assigned, or when bells were first invented. Knives of various
forms have also been found; one of which, now in the Louvre
collection, has a place for the fingers rather than a handle, in
the curved shape of a goose's neck. Its whole length is twelve
F
(W. 90.) I
inches (woodcut 92, fig. 1). Bronze needles were not un-
common, about the size of those we have for rough sewing, or
three and a-half inches long; and a pair of bronze tongs, found
at Thebes, and now in the British Museum, are remarkable for
their finish, and for the very Egyptian caprice of making the
two ends in the form of fish. They even retain their elasticity—
the sides being kept apart by a block of wood.
Bronze timpula, or ladles, frequently gilt, used for taking
liquids out of vases, are also found; and one in the Louvre has
its bowl in the strange form of an oryx, the emblem of the
god Pthah-Sokari-Osiris (woodcut 92, fig. 3) ; but weapons of