nd even of men. Of the
masterpieces which adorned the palaces of the Ptolemies no specimens
remain. Many fragments which may be attributed to the later Roman time
have, however, been found in Egypt, such as the piece with the boy and
goose described by Wilkinson, and a piece representing marine divinities
bought by myself at Coptos.[76] The numerous embroidered winding sheets
with woven borders which have recently been discovered near Ekhmim, and in
the Fayum, are nearly all from Coptic tombs, and are more nearly akin to
Byzantine art than to the art of Egypt.

[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 separa