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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. 1901 Excerpt: ...belonged to the king's travelling outfit. It would be quite in character with the detailed account keeping, and the strict personal responsibility for things, that each branch of the royal service, for the palace, for travelling, &c, should have its own canteen and furniture. Pl. Viiia. 1, 2. Pieces of inscriptions of Merpaba. 3. Base of vase inscribed for the "royal palace." 4. Piece of an inscription of king Qa, fitting the piece published in B. T. i. viii. 3. 5. Piece with name of king Qa. 6. Piece with a royal name apparently beginning with a bird. Unfortunately, it is so much sand-worn that whether it belongs to a new name cannot be decided. 7. The finest sealing of king Sekhem-ab Perabsen, drawn in seal No. 164, pl. xxi. 8. The jackal standard written in ochre on a piece of an alabaster vase. 9. Part of an inscription, Neit, her, Ichent. Pi'obably of the time of Merneit, by the rough style. 10--12. For adjusting the fragments of stone bowls a frame was employed in order to obtain the forms and draw the restored outlines. This is described in the account of stone bowls, chap. vi. 24. Pl. IX. I. In the tomb of king Khasekhemui were found two pieces of a sceptre (see chamber 48, pl. lxiii.). The larger j)iece was complete at the thinner end and 23 inches in length; the shorter had been broken from the longer, but was not complete at either end; it was 5 inches long. In the photograph is shown one end of each piece; but it is impossible in a book-plate to represent the whole of such a long slender object on any useful scale. From this plate can be seen the double bands of thick gold which encircle the sceptre at every fourth cylinder, the cylinders of polished sard which form the body, and the corroded rod of copper which binds the whole tog...