. Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Egypte . It was originaily made to tit on to the lower part ofthe stèle, for there is no sign of breakage. the under surface being smoothand straight. As the object was too heavy to be easily transported to thelocal magazine, 1 arranged that il should be conveyed across to Philaî byboat, where it now rests. The inscription reads : (-) ^6 I I LXJ lli i* i T .^ i ^ \^- mm i 1 @* mVs î Statuette of the Middlc Empire from Asfitn.— Last April, a small limeslonestatuette w as forwarded to me from the sehakii digging at Asfun, and wasafterwards sent on to Cair
. Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Egypte . It was originaily made to tit on to the lower part ofthe stèle, for there is no sign of breakage. the under surface being smoothand straight. As the object was too heavy to be easily transported to thelocal magazine, 1 arranged that il should be conveyed across to Philaî byboat, where it now rests. The inscription reads : (-) ^6 I I LXJ lli i* i T .^ i ^ \^- mm i 1 @* mVs î Statuette of the Middlc Empire from Asfitn.— Last April, a small limeslonestatuette w as forwarded to me from the sehakii digging at Asfun, and wasafterwards sent on to Cairo. It represents a seated man, wearing a short [2] 1)0 — H fcK-ljjjlllll oH J>n; ^..?^^?n iU oj- jj^Lil C)00n iii; ^Cl ( ,. «¥i- l« = 0 - , n^^ X o 0 1 ???? «^ Mil ^^ 1 ^-. ^1 1 ? » M U o *n^ V 1 = ? s « 0 ^i H. -1 O 4 41 I: ^ % I „ ^ fe>j,.. Il J^l ^ 4| [i] — Ii2 —. \vij[, and the usual short skirt. The hands resl upon the knees. The heightof the ohiect is o m. 99 cent., the breadth o m. og cent, and the deptho m. 17 cent. The workmanship is good. Upon the right side of the seatis the follou ing inscription : 4=A^iT^fJ-*^®tZ!TT*!mî bh-ink] ^ [blank]. In front is written : ^ ] ^^- Thepersonage is thus seen to hâve been named Sebekhetep,and to hâve l)een the superintendent of the ofîerings. Thedate is dynasty XII-XIII. Shauahd Jigiire of Amosea, a priest « J 11 ^ j from Tliebes. — Last year I obtained from a boy at Gurneh part of a lue glazed shauahti figure from which the head and feet liad been broken (fig. 1 ). It is of the type found in the XXVI dynastv, and is inscribed down the front in the usual inanner. The inscription reads : P t ^ j^*] * |^ J ^ Pig. ,. ?i1 ^ J I IÔmTi:ilM-_ The personage was thus n priest, chief reader, and scribe in the tempie of Dhip\ The ^vord Jll^is probabiy one of the many wrilings of ^|^ or ^O, Hermopolis.
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