[][59]] Some of these beautiful rods were also found at Tell Gemayemi by Mr. F. Ll. Griffith, and in such sound condition that it was possible to cut them in thin slices, for distribution among various museums.--A.B.E.
[][60]] That is, of the kind known as the "false murrhine."--A.B.E.
[][61]] The yellows and browns are frequently altered greens.--A.B.E.
[][62]] One of the Eleventh Dynasty kings.
[][63]] There is a fine specimen at the Louvre, and another in the museum at Leydeu.--A.B.E.
[][64]] For an account of every stage and detail in the glass and glaze manufactures of Tell el Amarna, see W.M.F. Petrie's Tell el Amarna.
[][65]] Klaft, i.e., a headdress of folded linen. The beautiful little head here referred to is in the Gizeh Museum, and is a portrait of the Pharaoh Necho.--A.B.E.
[][66]] Apries, in Egyptian "Uahabra," the biblical "Hophra;" Amasis, Ahmes II.; both of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty.--A.B.E.
[][67]] Some specimens of these tiles may be seen in the Egyptian department at the British Museum.--A.B.E.
[][68]] We have a considerable number of specimens of these borderings, cartouches, and painted tiles representing foreign prisoners, in the British Museum; but the finest examples of the latter are in the Ambras Collection, Vienna. For a highly interesting and scholarly description of the remains found at Tell el Yahûdeh in 1870, see Professor Hayter Lewis's paper in vol. iii. of the Transactions of the Biblical Archaeological Society.--A.B.E.