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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...head had been removed, and was reattached by a palm stick through the spine. Sometimes eyes of glass or coloured paste were set on. 37. The amulets (pl. xxvi.) are mostly made of a coarse blue glazed ware, moulded, and sometimes painted with detail in black. As this is the most complete series known of this age all the varieties are here published in photograph. They may be classified as follows:--Osiriá standing, mummified. Isis winged, standing. Nebhat, „ „ Isis „ kneeling. Nebhat „ „ Uaz, papyrus plant. Reed, a. Frame of garlands for the breast. Deep coJlar, hawk's head ends. Pectoral, Osiris and hawk. Star. Carpenter's square. „ plummet stand. „ stand with plummet. Head-rest. Double seal. Ankh. Girdle tie. Dad. Dad crowned. This gives sixty-five varieties, beside two or three small forms which are so rough as to be unintelligible. 38. The position of these amulets is variable, and they seem to have been put on with only a rough regard to symmetry. Some, however, are tolerably constant in position. The mourning Isis and Nebhat are on the ehoulders; below them the four genii, two on either side. An ига eye is also on each shoulder. The jackal is generally on the hips; the hawk on the shoulders or hips. The winged scarab is usually on the breastbone. The star is twice on the neck, once on the navei. The dad is usually on the navei. Of course these amulets are by no means always present in a group, but these are the general positions when they do occur. The whole question of the position of amulets needs to be studied together; but, unhappily, there is scarcely any information on it except what I have observed at Nebesheh and Hawara. Broadly, the positions mostly remain the same in each of the...