[68] We have a considerable number of specimens of these borderings,
    cartouches, and painted tiles representing foreign prisoners, in the
    British Museum; but the finest examples of the latter are in the
    Ambras Collection, Vienna.  For a highly interesting and scholarly
    description of the remains found at Tell el Yahudeh in 1870, see
    Professor Hayter Lewis’s paper in vol. iii. of the Transactions
    of the Biblical Archaeological Society.—­A.B.E.

[69] The Tat amulet was the emblem of stability.—­A.B.E.

[70] That is, the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Dynasties.

[71] There is a fine specimen of one of these sledges in the Leyden Museum,
    and the Florentine Museum contains a celebrated Egyptian war-chariot
    in fine preservation.—­A.B.E.

[72] See the coloured frontispiece to Thebes; its Tombs and their
    Tenants, by A.H.  Rhind. 1862.—­A.B.E.

[73] Since the publication of this work in the original French, a very
    splendid specimen of a royal Egyptian chair of state, the property of
    Jesse Haworth, Esq., was placed on view at the Manchester Jubilee
    Exhibition.  It is made of dark wood, apparently rosewood; the legs
    being shaped like bull’s legs, having silver hoofs, and a solid gold
    cobra snake twining round each leg.  The arm-pieces are of lightwood
    with cobra snakes carved upon the flat in low relief, each snake
    covered with hundreds of small silver annulets, to represent the
    markings of the reptile.  This chair, dated by a fragment of a royal
    cartouche, belonged to Queen Hatshepsut, of the Eighteenth Dynasty.  It
    is now in the British Museum.—­A.B.E.

[74] In this cut, as well as in the next, the loom is represented as if
    upright; but it is supposed to be extended on the ground.—­A.B.E.

[75] For a chromolithographic reproduction of this work as a whole, with
    drawings of the separate parts, facsimiles of the inscriptions, etc.,
    see The Funeral Tent of an Egyptian Queen, by H. Villiers
    Stuart.—­A.B.E.

[76] An unusually fine specimen of carpet, or tapestry work from Ekhmim,
    representing Cupids rowing in papyrus skiffs, landscapes, etc., has
    recently been presented to the British Museum by the Rev. G.J. 
    Chester.  The tapestry found at Ekhmim is, however, mostly of the
    Christian period, and this specimen probably dates from about A.D. 700
    or A.D. 600.—­A.B.E.

3.—­METALS.

The Egyptians classified metals under two heads—­namely, the noble metals, as gold, electrum, and silver; and the base metals, as copper, iron, lead, and, at a later period, tin.  The two lists are divided by the mention of certain kinds of precious stones, such as lapis lazuli and malachite.