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3. The Osiris, High Priest of Amen, Pinotem, justified before Osiris, Beloved of the great God Tuatmutf.

4. The Osiris, High Priest of Amen, Pinotem, justified before Pthah, Beloved of the great God Kebhsenf.

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The formula aud tlie séquence, it will be observed, are identical througliout the séries. Eaeh inscription begius in the second column, is continued in the first, and ends witb the third. The names of the genii of Karneter are, with one exception, written from left to right; the exception being Amset, which probably by an error of the ancient engraver, reads from right to left.

The PiNOTEM of thèse vases, who assumes no royal cartouche aud claims no other title than that of High Priest of Amen, is evidently Pinotem I, son of Piankhi and grandson of Her-hor. The mummy of this Pontiff, enclosed in two mummy-cases, was found in the vault at Dayr-el-Baharee, and is classed as No. XXIII in Professor Maspero's Memoir contributed to the Fifth Orientalist Congress, Berlin, 1881. In Professor Maspero's Officiai Report, he is thus classed under «Cercueils du Second Groupe». — «3" Cercueil du Grand prêtre d'Ammon, général en chef, Pinotem. La caisse extérieure porte le long des jambes clouée, une bande de cui\Te sur laquelle a été estampée l'inscription. » P. 16. La Trouvaille de Dèir-el- Baliari. 1881. Regarding the very curions and interesting inscrii)tion stamped upon the abovemeutioned leather baud, see Dr. A. AViedemaxns interesting contribution « Zur XXI. Dynastie Manetho's» in the Zeitschrift fiir Aegijptische Sprache. Heft II. 1882. This Pinotem is the same personage whose funereal papyrus was bought at Luxor in 1876 by Colonel Campbell.

The above vases are the property of 0. Briscoe Eyre Esq. of Warens, Lyndhurst. Three are open, and thcir contents abstracted. The fourth (Amset) is yet closed, and doubtless coutaius part of the viscera of Pinotem I.

2. The Canopic Vases of Princess Nesi-Khonsu. Thèse vases stand 15 inches high, inchuUng the covers, which measure 4 inches in height aud represent the heads of Amset, Hapi, Tuatmutf and Keuhsenf. The vases are of fine alabaster; the covers of sycamore wood, admirably carved and painted in délicate tempera. The pigments principally used in the colouring of the covers appear to bave been red and yellow ochre, terra-verte, and white. AU the colours are largely mixed with white. The face of Amset is laid in with red ochre; the Klaft, or headgear, being terra-verte relieved l)y stripes of pale yellow, apparently of the pigment known as «orpiment». Each vase is inscribed with a hieroglyphed legend in four vertical columns 2V4 inches in length. The characters are small, very carefully eut, aud fi^i^d in with pale l)lue i)roduoed by a mixture of cobalt and white. — The}'^ read as foUows : —