36. [Pl. XVIII] contains the marks made while yet soft upon coarse pots found in stairway tombs, mastabas, etc. Marks recur (as 7 and 9, 40 and 41) in different tombs. Hieroglyphs are not common, but occur (25, 46).
The name No. 44 occurs on a majūr, and confirms slightly the early date given for those pots. Below are inscribed fragments of limestone, 49-53 and 55, from Ka-mena’s mastaba, 54 from a neighbouring one. Nos. 56-65 are the copper models of tools from Ka-mena’s tomb.
[Pl. XIX] gives the marks from XIIth dynasty pots, chiefly made after baking, and therefore presumably due to the owners and not the potters. Similar signs sometimes recur in different tombs (44 and 48, 45 and 46, 37 and 38, 29 and 30, 32 and 33). Can they be notes of the contents of the jars?
37. [Pl. XX.]—No. 1 is a piece of a bowl of incised ware found in a stairway tomb.
Nos. 2, 3 and 4 are also fragments of an incised ware found in some irregular holes on the north side of the hill of Paheri, and not before mentioned. With them were a few very late blue glaze beads, and two pots that were probably Roman, but these three fragments are evidently much older.
No. 5 is the outline of a majūr, the large pot used as a coffin in the Old Kingdom.
No. 6 is a fragment of Neolithic pottery from one of the small graves inside the town (cf. Naqada, XXXV, 74).
Nos. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 are from intrusive burials in the XIIth dynasty cemetery. No. 13, perhaps Roman, has a certain importance in the question of the date of the great wall (cf. § 27).
No. 14 is one of the pots from the pigeon-house in the south of the town ([Pl. XXIV]).
After the scarabs come six cylinders.