[23] The translation is due to Professor Newberry.
[24] Found in second sifting.
[25] This was part of the toilet-box, Pls. XLVIII-IX.
[26] See Coffin-tomb No. 27.
[27] In the Cairo Museum eight similar vases belonging to a toilet-box bear the names of sacred oils, Nos. 18652-8.
[28] In the Cairo Museum is a wooden tray for mirror with two hollows or receptacles for materials for polishing (?) mirror face, No. 44012.
[29] Petrie, Kahun, Gurob and Hawara, [Pl. XVI], p. 30, a similar gaming-board in pottery.
[30] For knuckle-bones see group No. 25, tomb No. 37. Cp. Quibell, Excavations Saqqara, p. 114, [Pl. LXIII]. Dice: I have found three specimens among objects from the rubbish heaps of the temple of Dêr el Bahari, and as there were no antiquities here that could be later than the XVIIIth Dynasty, one is led to suppose that the dice are of the same date. Two of the dice were of clay and one was made of limestone.
[31] For the numerical order of the holes see [Fig. 14]. Only one piece aside can be played at a time, as if more they might win the same hole and hence clash; and only one die used.
[32] This is known by some adhering to one another when found.