[362] The oldest representation of the potter's wheel yet discovered is in one of the paintings at Beni-Hassan. It is reproduced in Birch's Ancient Pottery, p. 14.
[363] S. Birch, A History of Ancient Pottery, Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman, 1 vol. 8vo, 1873. London, Murray.
[364] Lepsius, Denkmæler, part ii. pl. 153.
[365] Birch, Ancient Pottery, p. 37.
[366] Birch, Ancient Pottery, Figs. [23] and [25].
[367] Brongniart, Histoire de la Ceramique, vol. ii. p. 95.
[368] See also Lepsius, Denkmæler, part ii. pl. 2, and the Verzeichniss der Ægyptischen Alterthümer of the Berlin Museum, 1879, p. 25.
[369] We owe our ability to give these curious details to the kindness of M. Conze and the officers of the Egyptian museum at Berlin. One of the original fragments brought home by Lepsius was lent to us.
[370] Birch, Ancient Pottery, p. 50.
[371] I am told that a circular base, like that of a column of a table for offerings, was discovered in the same building. It is entirely covered with this same faience.