NOTES
[444] Loftus, Travels, &c., pp. 203-4. The British Museum possesses several fine specimens of these glazed-ware coffins. The details given by Loftus (chapter xx.), upon the necropolis of Sinkara may be read with interest.
[445] See above, p. 158, and fig. 49.
[446] M. Stanislas Guyard published a translation of this passage in the Journal asiatique, for May-June, 1880, p. 514; some terms which had remained doubtful, were explained by M. Amiaud, in the same journal for August-September, 1881, p. 237.
[447] Herodotus, i. 187.
[448] Loftus, Travels, &c., pp. 248-9.
[449] Arrian, Anabasis, vii. 22.
[450] Diodorus, ii. 7, 1-2.