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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. 1897 Excerpt: ... 26, 27, seem to be crowbars, as several were uniformly bent up at one end; these show then the only crowbars yet known from Egypt. The hoes, 28, 29, 30, are of the type well known in later Egyptian bronze, where the flat sheet of metal is wrapped round the handle. The axe, 31, is of the usual type; as are also the adze, 32, and knife, 33. The knife with a spur on it, 34, is a new form, the meaning of which is obscure. The mortise chisel, 35 and flat chisel, 36, are of the usual forms. The ebony cramp, 37, is a model of the wooden cramps used for linking together the stones of a building, and bears the cartouche with the title Neb taut. The two model corn grinders of yellow quartzite have the nefer signs and a border line painted on in black. A piece of red glass, 39, is partly decomposed to yellow; what it represents is unknown. Besides these small objects there were also in five of the deposits a block of sandstone (XVII, 2) bearing the two cartouches of Tausert carefully engraved. And in one deposit a brick of coarse mortar (XVII, 1) which has been stamped with the cartouche; it has been laid in the hole while soft, and pressed out of shape, and further trodden upon. Many jars were found, as fig. 5, and some bowls and pans, figs. 8, 9, 10; a large number of little cups, figs. 4, 6, were in most of the deposits; and a few handles of jars are also drawn here, for the sake of dated types. Some of the potsherds bear inscriptions, which were written on them as datings of wine, when the jars were in use (XIX, 1-4). Of animal offerings there was a calf s haunch in deposits I, 4, and 6; and a call's head in deposits 4 and 6; a pigeon's head in deposit 6, and a pigeon in deposit I. In deposit 7 was a thick bed of leaves of a tree mixed with beads above the glazed...