No. 4 represents a porcelain boat with a ram’s head on the bow.
No. 5 is a pectoral which was placed on the chest of the mummy, and should have a scarab in the opening.
No. 6 is the girdle buckle of Isis, and was placed on the neck of the mummy. It is not correctly shaped and should not be cut straight off across the bottom.
No. 7 is a small papyrus cup with reeds shown upon it, but very roughly done.
No. 8 is a ram-headed hawk bearing the sun disk; it is composed of soft plaster painted over and very badly shaped.
The above figures would be known as forgeries from the softness of the material used, and from the glaze being too glossy.
A Hawk’s Head. The lid of a canopic jar.
The blue canopic jar shown in the frontispiece and the top of another, a hawk’s head, represented in the above line engraving, were, after prolonged bargaining, bought for 7s. and 6s. each. The seller, an up-river man, took a most solemn oath that they were old, but that the glaze was new. When I pinned him down to definite statements, he explained to me that he meant that the earth of which they were composed was old; which of course is true, but that is not the sense in which the ordinary buyer would understand it. With this reservation he would feel himself at liberty to take the most solemn oaths that, with the exception of the glaze, his specimens were really old.
As I have said, the forgers are now also in the habit of melting the old glass fragments and pieces of glaze, and using it to recolour their productions.