241 .-- Relief tile, Tell el Yahudeh.] [55] Works on scarabaei are the Palin collection, published in 1828; Mr.
Loftie's charming _Essay of Scarabs_, which is in fact a catalogue of his own specimens, admirably illustrated from drawings by Mr.W.M.F.

Petrie; and Mr.Petrie's _Historical Scarabs_, published 1889 .-- A.B.E.
[56] These twin vases are still made at Asuan.

I bought a small specimen there in 1874 .-- A.B.E.
[57] The sepulchral vases commonly called "canopic" were four in number, and contained the embalmed viscera of the mummy.

The lids of these vases were fashioned to represent the heads of the four genii of Amenti, Hapi, Tuatmutf, Kebhsennef, and Amset; i.e.the Ape-head, the Jackal-head, the Hawk-head, and the human head .-- A.B.E.
[58] The remains of this shrine, together with many hundreds of beautiful glass hieroglyphs, figures, emblems, etc., for inlaying, besides moulds and other items of the glassworker's stock, were discovered by Mr.F.Ll.Griffith at Tell Gemayemi, about equidistant from the mounds of Tanis and Daphnae (San and Defenneh) in March 1886.

For a fuller account see Mr.Griffith's report, "_The Antiquities of Tell el Yahudiyeh," in Seventh Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund_.
-- A.B.E.
[59] Some of these beautiful rods were also found at Tell Gemayemi by Mr.
F.Ll.Griffith, and in such sound condition that it was possible to cut them in thin slices, for distribution among various museums .-- A.B.E.
[60] That is, of the kind known as the "false murrhine."-- A.B.E.
[61] The yellows and browns are frequently altered greens .-- A.B.E.
[62] One of the Eleventh Dynasty kings.
[63] There is a fine specimen at the Louvre, and another in the museum at Leydeu .-- A.B.E.
[64] For an account of every stage and detail in the glass and glaze manufactures of Tell el Amarna, see W.M.F.