One of the smallest represents a black-and-white Apis walking, the work being so delicate that it loses none of its effect under the magnifying glass.

The greater number of these objects date from, and after, the first Saite dynasty; but excavations in Thebes and Tell el Amarna have proved that the manufacture of coloured glass prevailed in Egypt earlier than the tenth century before our era.

At Kurnet Murraee and Sheikh Abd el Gurneh, there have been found, not only amulets for the use of the dead, such as colonnettes, hearts, mystic eyes, hippopotami walking erect, and ducks in pairs, done in parti-coloured pastes, blue, red, and yellow, but also vases of a type which we have been accustomed to regard as of Phoenician and Cypriote manufacture.[60] Here, for example, is a little aenochoe, of a light blue semi-opaque glass (fig.

225); the inscription in the name of Thothmes III., the ovals on the neck, and the palm-fronds on the body of the vase being in yellow.

Here again is a lenticular phial, three and a quarter inches in height (fig.