Petrie's _Tell el Amarna_.
[65] _Klaft, i.e._, a headdress of folded linen.

The beautiful little head here referred to is in the Gizeh Museum, and is a portrait of the Pharaoh Necho .-- A.B.E.
[66] _Apries_, in Egyptian "Uahabra," the biblical "Hophra;" _Amasis_, Ahmes II.; both of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty .-- A.B.E.
[67] Some specimens of these tiles may be seen in the Egyptian department at the British Museum .-- A.B.E.
2 .-- WOOD, IVORY, LEATHER, AND TEXTILE FABRICS.
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242 .-- Spoon.] Objects in ivory, bone, and horn are among the rarities of our museums; but we must not for this reason conclude that the Egyptians did not make ample use of those substances.

Horn is perishable, and is eagerly devoured by certain insects, which rapidly destroy it.

Bone and ivory soon deteriorate and become friable.