INDEX

Alabaster, attempt to reproduce the features of Mykerinos in, [98]
- forgeries made on a lathe, [95]
- head in, [96]
- irregularities in old pots, [96]
- jars, [95]
- pots, [96]
Amulets, [78]
Ancient pigments, [92]
Answerers, [35]
Antiquities, laws regarding, [6]
- licence necessary for excavating and selling, [7]
- forged, makers and sellers of, [125]
Beads made of glass, [116]
- Roman, [116]
Bes, [41]
Blue, old Egyptian, [61]
Blue bowl, [27]
Bone figures, [53]
Bronze statue from Khargeh, [65]
Canopic jar, [102]
Chinese bottles, [106]
Co-operation of sellers, [68]
Cuneiform tablets, [123]
Earthenware blue bowl, [27]
Egyptologists, [135]
Fourth Dynasty work, excellence of, [148]
Frauds on buyers seldom made public, [9]
Funerary chamber, model of, [37]
- figures, [35], [41], [42]
Glazing, methods of, [103]
Goddess Taurt, [101], [112]
Gold bracelets, [20], [23]
- bottles, detection of fraudulent, [24]
- necklace from Algiers, [22]
- of genuine carnelian beads and spurious bottles, [22]
- ornaments, [11]
- price paid for, [12]
- relics, fraud discovered by date on coins, [17]
- ring, spurious, [23]
- scarab, [21]
- worker in, [25]
Granite bowls, fraudulent, [108]
- price paid for, [108]
- way of making, [110]
Hawk’s head, [102]
Horus hawk, [40]
- sons of, [53], [105]
Ibis, model of, [106]
Imitations, excellence of, [10]
Iridescent glass, [32]
Jewish collector and the Arab, story of, [55]
Lapis Lazuli imitations, [27], [29], [31], [32]
- Figure, Plate X, No. 4
Laws regarding antiquities, [6]
Licence necessary to excavate antiquities, [7]
Makers and sellers of forged antiquities, [125]
Mummy and mummy cases, [114]
Mummy, story of “predynastic,” [117]
- cloth, [115]
- figures, [41]
Nubia, examples of Egyptian objects found in, [143]
Nubian figure, [42]
Opinion as to genuineness of scarabs not given by Cairo Museum Authorities, [67]
- method of obtaining expert, [4]
Pigments, ancient, [92]
Porcelain, [99]
- bottle, [100]
- bowl, [101]
- examples of blue, [101], [102]
- figures known as forgeries, [102]
- jug, with a piece of mummy cloth in the mouth, [105]
- lotus cup and bowl, [104]
- paper-weights, [54]
- price of forgeries, [103]
- sacred eyes, [106]
- winged scarab, [104]
Prussian blue, use of, [41]
Reeds used as brushes, [44]
Scagliola, use of, introduced, [51]
Scarab, the Abou Roash, [81]
- bearing story of Khaf-ra, [73]
- the story of the circumnavigation of Africa, [70]
- Weigall’s story of a, [82]
- winged, and the four Genii, [94]
Scarabs, [69], [84]
- exported to the Soudan, [83]
- made in Europe, [80]
- maker of spurious, [76]
- recutting, [76]
- remoulding, [75]
Sculpture, ancient, produced in conformity with a canon, [48]
Seals, [91]
Serpentine, jar made in, [108]
- statue in, [48]
Slate, crocodile in, [54]
Speech of Amenemhat, [137]
Statues of Isis and Horus, [62], [65]
Steatite bottle, [47]
Stone figures, [45]
- price of, [50]
- forgeries, maker of, [51]
- heads, [46]
- imitation of, [47]-49
- kneeling figure and tablet, [54], [55]
- statue, bronze, from Khargeh, [65]
Tale of Jewish collector and an Arab, [55]
- of spurious gold articles found in the Delta, [12]
- of two Arabs, [57]
- of the “predynastic mummy,” 117
- of the Scarab of Khaf-ra, [73]
Taurt, Goddess, [101], [112]
Tomb, a forged, [119]
“Triple divorce.” Talak-bi-Talata, [14], [19]
Ushebti figures, [35], [47]
- composition of, [47], [49]
Woman, figure of a, [48]
Wood, figures in, [35]
- forgeries in, ways of detecting, [36]-40
- makers of, [43]
Wooden figure of Anubis, [37]
- jars, [100]
- model of dove, [44]
- model of plough, [42]
- mummy figures, [4]
- paint boxes, [43]

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