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 FURNITURE AND OBJECTS OF THE TOILET. 397 the earth thrown out of the chamber; many of them were quite dis- integrated, or have since become so, but those that are still in fairly good condition show that the whole once formed a small case for perfume bottles. The tablets which formed the sides and lid of the box are reproduced in our Figs. 335-337. The most curious is that on which the sculptor has carved, in low relief, a woman holding a lotus flower to her nose (Fig. 335). This plaque is quite unique in its way ; it formed, perhaps, the front of the box. Two more, of the same thickness but of different sizes, are more simply decorated, one with a sort of faggot of lotus stems tied with cords in two places and a border of rosettes (Fig. 336), the other FlGS. 335 337. Fragments of an ivory box. From the tomb of blsmounazar. In the collection of M. de Vogue. with an eight-pointed rosette between two with sixteen poi.ics (Fig. 337). A cylindrical sheath, or dlni, was found in the same place as these fragments (Fig. 338) ; it still held traces of a powdery substance coloured green with oxide of copper. In Fig. 339 another ivory case is shown in section through the splitting of the material. Finally, mixed up with all these were encountered a number of small pieces of various shapes and sizes, some rectangular, others prismatic, while a few small pieces were bevelled on one face. All these fragments seem to have formed part of the internal arrangement and division of the box.