It belonged of old to Ahmes I.A third, hollowed out of the body of an energetic little hedgehog, is of a changeable green (fig.

231).

A Pharaoh's head in dead blue wears a _klaft_[65] with dark-blue stripes.
[Illustration: Fig.

232.] Fine as these pieces are, the _chef-d'oeuvre_ of the series is a statuette of one Ptahmes, first Prophet of Amen, now in the Gizeh Museum.

The hieroglyphic inscriptions as well as the details of the mummy bandages are chased in relief upon a white ground of admirable smoothness afterwards filled in with enamel.