[58] The remains of this shrine, together with many hundreds of beautiful
    glass hieroglyphs, figures, emblems, etc., for inlaying, besides
    moulds and other items of the glassworker’s stock, were discovered by
    Mr. F. Ll.  Griffith at Tell Gemayemi, about equidistant from the
    mounds of Tanis and Daphnae (San and Defenneh) in March 1886.  For a
    fuller account see Mr. Griffith’s report, “The Antiquities of Tell
    el Yahudiyeh,” in Seventh Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund. 
    —­A.B.E.

[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.

2.—­WOOD, IVORY, LEATHER, AND TEXTILE FABRICS.

[Illustration:  Fig. 242.—­Spoon.]

Objects in ivory, bone, and horn are among the rarities of our museums; but we must not for this reason conclude that the Egyptians did not make ample use of those substances.  Horn is perishable, and is eagerly devoured by certain insects, which rapidly destroy it.  Bone and ivory soon deteriorate and become friable.  The elephant was known to the Egyptians from the remotest period.  They may, perhaps, have found it inhabiting the Thebaid when first they established themselves in that part of the Nile Valley, for as early as the Fifth Dynasty we find the pictured form of the elephant in use as the hieroglyphic name of the island of Elephantine.  Ivory in tusks and half tusks was imported into Egypt from the regions of the Upper Nile.  It was sometimes dyed green or red, but was more generally left of its natural colour.  It was largely employed by cabinet makers for inlaying furniture, as chairs, bedsteads, and coffers.  Combs, dice, hair-pins, toilette ornaments, delicately wrought spoons (fig. 242), Kohl bottles hollowed out of a miniature column surmounted by a capital, incense-burners in the shape of a hand supporting