Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . 358 THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS. purple lazuli, amethyst, and a kind of glaze or vitreouspaste. One (fig. 326) is made of alternate plaques ofgold and torquoise, the design being a house doorsurmounted by a hawk, the symbolic figure that. Fig. 328. Bracelets, First D^^nasty, Fig. 329. throughout historic times encloses the Horus nameof the Pharaohs. The turquoise plaques show signs ofre-threading, and the style of the carving indicatesthat they are somewhat earlier than the rest of thew
Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . 358 THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS. purple lazuli, amethyst, and a kind of glaze or vitreouspaste. One (fig. 326) is made of alternate plaques ofgold and torquoise, the design being a house doorsurmounted by a hawk, the symbolic figure that. Fig. 328. Bracelets, First D^^nasty, Fig. 329. throughout historic times encloses the Horus nameof the Pharaohs. The turquoise plaques show signs ofre-threading, and the style of the carving indicatesthat they are somewhat earlier than the rest of thework. Two bracelets (figs. 327, 328) are formed ofbeads of various shapes finely cut and elaborately JEWELLERY. 359 threaded. The fourth (fig. 329) has a gold flower ofvery beautiful workmanship. The jewellery of the Old Kingdom is still veryrare. There are necklaces formed of gold linkscopied from a shell the cypycea ; a minute gold lion,and a fine wasp used as pendants, and some repoussefigures of animals in thin gold-leaf.*
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