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 Metal Dishes and Utensils. encountered in the open architecture of Egypt, 1 Between the groups thus constituted are thicker shafts bearing winged scarabs on their campaniform capitals. These same columns and capitals occur on another cup from which we detach them in order to show their details more clearly. 2 In one instance the terminal of the shaft is unlike anything hitherto found elsewhere ; it is a sphere (Fig. 210); but the contour of the next is thoroughly Egyptian (Fig. 211), and the symbols on the last three, a scarab and two uraei, proclaim their origin no less clearly (Figs. 212 to 214).

WW^ Figs. 210 — 214. — Columns or standards figured upon a bronze cup ; from Layard. We gather the same impression from a platter only cleaned quite lately and consequently not to be found in Sir H. Layard's works ; it is now reproduced for the first time (Fig. 215). The whole decoration is finely carried out in line with the burin. The middle is occupied by a seven pointed star or rosette, nine times repeated. Around this elegant and complex motive there are concentric circles, the third of which, counting from the centre, is filled up with small figures hardly to be distinguished by the 1 Art in Ancient Egypt, vol. ii„ pp. 87-89. 2 It is numbered 619 in the museum inventory. It bears an inscription in Aramaic characters.