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CHAPTEE III.

THE POTTERY.

25. The pottery found in the tombs is
classified roughly in three heads : that of the
Old Kingdom (pi. xvi.), that between the Old
and Middle Kingdom (pi. xvii.), and that of the
Middle Kingdom (pi. xviii.). In order to save
references the whole is continuously numbered
through from 1 to 195, at the top right of each
figure. Where a name is well known for a
tomb it is placed below the pot; otherwise the
number of the tomb is placed below at the right
hand, and sometimes references to several
tombs.

The plates are arranged mainly by the forms
within each plate. Since arranging the plates
letters A to H of the successive classes of tombs
have been assigned from the references that we
have already discussed in the last chapter.
Anyone wishing to study these plates in detail
is recommended to add in red pencil the
following class letters on the drawings. Class

A,

figures 1,

figures 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10,

4, 15, 21, 26, 29. Class B,
19, 20, 23, 24,

'i
18

25, 27, 30, 31, 32 to 37. Class C, figures
28, 40, 41, 42, 43, 46, 51, 76, 11, 83, 84, 102,
114, 187. Class D, figures 97, 179, 187.
Class E, figures 48, 49, 50, 83, 105, 119, 120 to
126, 128, 134, 166, 167, 170, 172. Class F,
figures 45, 49, 50, 54, 71, 144. Class G, figures
61, 83, 84, 98. Class H, figures 85, 87, 97, 98,
189. The other drawings maybe many of them
safely classed by their connection with the
above-named; but these are all assigned by the
style of the sculpture or form of the tomb.

26. The pottery of the IVth Dynasty is of
well-known types. The large ring-stand 1 is
rare so early as that. The offering bowls of

very coarse brown ware (14, 15) are very usual
at Medum, early IVth, and last till Deshasheh,
late Vth Dynasty. The jars 21, 26 are closely
like the type Medum xxx. 11 ; and fig. 29 is
as Medum xxxi. 27. This is satisfactory, as
showing how the same types Avere made nearly
two hundred miles apart at the same time.
The un-Egyptian form in pi. xxi. 1 is already
described in sect. 4.

Of the Vth Dynasty Ave have the same spread
of types in fig. 25, which is identical with the
Deshasheh type 15.

In the Vlth Dynasty we see the development
of the long rough offering jar. In the early
IVth at Medum it is pointed or irregularly
tubular (Medum, xxxi. 15, 19); in the Vth at
Deshasheh it has a rounded brim (22); in the
Vlth at Dendereh the brim has grown into an
upright lip, see (8).

The ring-stands are of trumpet-shaped curves
here in the IVth (see 1) ; less curved in the Vth
at Deshasheh (7); more tubular in the Vlth
here (37), and Vllth-VIIIth (46); and vary
from the curved to the quite tubular in the
early Xlth (48, 49, 50, 121). The type 153 is
quite undated by the tomb, and is perhaps of
the Old Kingdom. Low flat ring-stands appear
in the early Xlth Dynasty (120, 125). The
tall pierced stands seem to be quite a different
class. At Medum they are in pottery (Medum,
xxx. 21), imitated in stone (xxix. 7). Here
they appear with holes around the base in the
Vllth Dynasty (fig. 28), and more elaborate in
an undated one (38). Another of about the
same time has only four rough holes (51).
These pottery stands seem to be copied from