Memoirs Volume 3, PT. 1 by Egypt Exploration Society
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Author: Egypt Exploration Society
Page Count: 60 pages
Published Date: 06 Mar 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781130687224
Download Link: Memoirs Volume 3, PT. 1
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...handles), the outside of the square handle has a female head, full face. A complete set of all the types of development has been kept for the British Museum, and other sets presented to other collections. 52. Of stone tools there are many examples; hammers, whetstones, and drill-heads. The hammer-stones are very common at Naukratis, dozens may be picked up in an hour; they are of all materials, but principally basalt and syenite. The forms are not much like those usually found elsewhere, as the habit seems to have been to hold them between the thumb and the finger, and not in the palm of the hand. Most of the stones accordingly have a hollow chipped out on each side, and are solely chipped around the edge of the discoid mass. Very often old weights were thus used, and many of the weights catalogued have been thus treated. One hammer, perhaps used for cracking bones, is shaped like an hourglass, Bomewhat flattened at each end, and with the slight hollows to hold it by in the ends. The whetstones are usually small, two or three inches long, and sometimes pierced to hang them to a girdle; but one large one of the early Greek period is a fine example, and quite perfect. Many rounded pieces of stone are found, with one or more hollows highly polished in them; these are evidently the head-pieces of drill-bows, in which the end of the drill-stick revolved. They are generally of granite or basalt, but even limestone was sometimes used. 53. Of various small articles of the later Greek or Roman period we may notice the bezil of a silver ring with early Greek scroll pattern (xx. 27); also a ring of hard white metal, like modern speculum metal, with a large bezil, quite plain, flat, and polished (pl. xx. 34); this seems evidently to have been a mirror ring, to enable a...
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