On the hilt of a sabre we find a little crouching jackal; and the larger limb of a pair of scissors in the Gizeh Museum is made in the likeness of an Asiatic captive, his arms tied behind his back.

A lotus leaf forms the disk of a mirror, and its stem is the handle.

One perfume box is a fish, another is a bird, another is a grotesque deity.

The lustration vases, or _situlae_, carried by priests and priestesses for the purpose of sprinkling either the faithful, or the ground traversed by religious processions, merit the special consideration of connoisseurs.

They are ovoid or pointed at the bottom, and decorated with subjects either chased or in relief.