297 .-- Gold _cloisonne_ pectoral bearing cartouche of Usertesen III.

From Dahshur, found 1894, and now in the Gizeh Museum.] Orientals, men and women alike, are great lovers of jewellery.

The Egyptians were no exception to this rule.

Not satisfied to adorn themselves when living with a profusion of trinkets, they loaded the arms, the fingers, the neck, the ears, the brow, and the ankles of their dead with more or less costly ornaments.

The quantity thus buried in tombs was so considerable that even now, after thirty centuries of active search, we find from time to time mummies which are, so to say, cuirassed in gold.
Much of this funerary jewellery was made merely for show on the day of the funeral, and betrays its purpose by the slightness of the workmanship.