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wrinkles also painted round eye, at corners of mouth, and
behind nostrils, which are marked by holes. Surface of
face somewhat damaged. H. 8¼″, length 8¼″. Pl. CIII.

Ast. i. 8. 01. Fr. of figured silk. Rosettes (lotus), now
buff on darker buff ground, with vertical stems in blue.
Faded and fragile. 3½″×3½″. Pl. LXXXVII.

Ast. i. 8. 02. Fr. of figured silk border. On twilled
yellow ground, six-petalled blue rosettes in row, outlined
pale yellow, between border lines of green, brown, and
shaded blue. An outer guard of brown with round yellow
spots. Well made; brittle. c. 7″×1″. Pl. LXXVIII.

Ast. i. 8. 03. Five frs. of figured silk border, similar
to Ast. i. 8. 02, but ground light blue with buff flowers.
Weaving less good. Material to which this is border, and
of which small portions remain, is yellow-green twill.
Three frs. are sewn along edge in basting stitch with green
silk thread. Colours dull and faded. Av. length 3″,
width of pattern 1⁵⁄₁₆″.

Ast. i. 8. 04. Fr. of canvas, painted in thick tempera,
probably in imitation of brocade. Ground shaded brown
with oval spot pattern of small green leaves and red buds.
Material of paint very finely ground. Appears to have
been arranged in folds as a swag before painting. 10½″×3″.

Ast. i. 8. 05. Small pair of steel scissors, made in one
piece like modern Indian shears. Blades shaped as ordinary
penknife blade; handle (which forms spring) of square
wire crossed over from side to side forming circular loop.
The temper of spring still remains.
Rusted, but well preserved. Wrapped round blades,
a piece of dark crimson silk with small rosette spot pattern
in light yellow. Also piece of dark buff silk with lighter
pattern printed by 'resist' process. Length of scissors 4″,
blades 2½″×1″.

Ast. i. 8. 06. Head net, made of open-mesh string canvas,
with remains of black pigment all over. 8″×2″.

Ast. i. 8. 07. Fr. of plain white silk, from shroud. Dis-
coloured and perished. 16″×11″.

Ast. i. 8. 08. Stucco head of woman, in round, from
large fig., well modelled. Young and full, with oblique
eyes, long straight nose, very short upper lip, and upcurved
mouth deeply dented at the corners. Small chin, from
which 'double' chin slopes away into fat roll of neck.
Face painted white, with traces of red on lips, and large
elliptical green patch on forehead. Remains of black
lines under eyelids and carried almost as far as hair. No
other remains of additional colour on cheeks and eyes.
Hair painted black, finely grooved all over in long upward
lines from face and nape of neck. Hair taken off forehead
and temples in 'pompadour' flattened on top, and done
on crown in topknot (lost). Two crescents, red and green,
painted on 'pompadour', off L. temple, and another, white,
on back of head. Ears thick and clumsy shaped. Soft
buff clay mixed with straw; large hole for core (lost).
H. 7½″×gr. width 5¾″. Pl. CI.

Ast. i. 8. 09. Small dough man; standing upright with
joined hands hanging before him. Very roughly modelled,
ending at knee level in bifurcated rounded mass. Topknot
on head, and holes punched for eyes. No indication of
clothes. Dark-brown, close-textured material. H. 3″. Pl.
LXXXIX.

Ast. i. 8. 010. Straw man. Long thin fig. made of bundle
of straw raised at head and divided below to form legs.
Smaller bundles form arms. No attempt to make features,
&c. Dressed in long-sleeved coat of dark-brown woollen (?)
canvas, tied with silk band round waist; ragged under-
coat of buff silk, with felt padding within, over upper part
of body. Length 2′ 9″, average width 3″ to 4″. Pl. XCI.

OBJECTS EXCAVATED IN TOMBS OF GROUP ii

Ast. ii. 1. 01+03. Frs. of painting on paper. The parts
present are of two sheets, each 16¾″×16″ (nearly), pasted
together at two of their short edges. The subject appears
to be rather similar to that of Ast. vi. 3. 05, but with less
of incident.
To L. of centre a personage in voluminous robes kneeling
on rug and facing ¾″ to L. She holds in her raised R. hand
a black crescent-shaped object and in L. a slip of paper (?).
To the L. and facing first a second figure (lower part
missing) holding out in L. hand a circular black object
with light centre. To R. of first figure an object like a
towel-horse with an elongated top bar over which is draped
a heavy striped cloth, the colours being brick-red, white,
green, and dark grey. Farther to the R. is a standing
attendant and at extreme R. another, both looking to L.
In the space between these two a rectangular-topped
table with red centre and broad black border (lacquered ?).
At each end a leg composed of three vertical bars bending
over towards the table-top at upper ends and resting at

their lower ends on a rail which forms a continuous foot
for all three. Vertical bars red, feet black.
In centre of table stands a black cauldron having three
'fish-tail' feet. A ladle with hook handle (similar to Ast. ii.
1. 07, Pl. CIV) rests inside cauldron. Above table are
two large squat jars, dark grey with red interiors. Below
are three smaller and thinner jars drawn in outline only.
Above and immediately to L. of head of R.-hand figure
is a tray with 'fish-tail' handles exactly resembling Ast. 01,
Pl. XCI.
Coiffure the same in all four figures. The hair seems to
be smoothed solidly on top and in a sort of flattened chignon
at back reaching to nape of neck. On top two thick solid
tresses are looped R. and L. resembling a large bow. From
each loop rises a thin black line (hair ?) curving outward
and downward. From each side of face just in front of
ear a similar line descends nearly to shoulder and then
curves up in direction to meet an upper one, the two on
each side having a wing-like effect.

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