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                            FORGED EGYPTIAN
                              ANTIQUITIES




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                                 AGENTS

    AMERICA       THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
                  64 & 66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK

    AUSTRALASIA   THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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[Illustration: PLATE 1. A BLUE CANOPIC JAR, WITH ANUBIS HEAD. This is an
imitation of porcelain and shows very well the unevenness of the modern
glaze. Such jars were used to contain the internal organs of the dead
and were placed in the tomb beside the mummy.]




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                                 FORGED
                                EGYPTIAN
                              ANTIQUITIES




                                   BY
                             T. G. WAKELING
                     AUTHOR OF “THE WHITE KNIGHTS”
                                  ETC.


                       [Illustration: Decoration]




                          ADAM & CHARLES BLACK
                          4 SOHO SQUARE LONDON
                                  1912




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                        BALLANTYNE & COMPANY LTD
                     TAVISTOCK STREET COVENT GARDEN
                                 LONDON




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                             PREFATORY NOTE


I WISH to express my indebtedness to Mr. and Mrs. Firth, of the Nubian
Archæological Survey, and to Dr. G. A. Reisner, of the Harvard
University Expedition, for their kindness in assisting me.

Plates I, II, XII and XVI were prepared from water-colour drawings made
by Miss Enid Stoddard, but all of the others have been reproduced direct
from the objects themselves.




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                                CONTENTS


        CHAPTER                                               PAGE
             I. INTRODUCTORY                                     1
            II. GOLD ORNAMENTS                                  11
           III. LAPIS LAZULI FIGURES AND IRIDESCENT GLASS       27
            IV. FIGURES IN WOOD                                 35
             V. STONE FIGURES                                   45
            VI. PORCELAIN FIGURES                               61
           VII. SCARABS                                         67
          VIII. ALABASTER                                       95
            IX. PORCELAIN, SERPENTINE AND GRANITE               99
             X. MUMMIES AND MUMMY CASES                        113
            XI. A FORGED TOMB                                  119
           XII. THE MAKERS AND SELLERS OF FORGED ANTIQUITIES   125
          XIII. EGYPTOLOGISTS                                  135

                REFERENCES                                     151

                INDEX                                          153




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                         LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
                               IN COLOUR


          PLATE                                               PAGE
             I. A BLUE CANOPIC JAR WITH ANUBIS HEAD           Frontispiece
            II. NECKLACES AND A BRACELET                        24
           III. WOODEN USHEBTI FIGURES                          33
            IV. FUNERARY FIGURES IN WOOD AND PLASTER            40
             V. WOODEN ARTICLES                                 49
            VI. STONE AND COMPOSITION FIGURES                   56
           VII. STONE AND OTHER FIGURES                         65
          VIII. SCARABS AND AMULETS                             72
            IX. ALABASTER                                       97
             X. PORCELAIN, WOOD AND GLASS                      104
            XI. BLUE PORCELAIN                                 107
           XII. PORCELAIN                                      110
          XIII. BLUE PORCELAIN                                 113
           XIV. A PIECE OF MUMMY CASE                          120
            XV. BEADS AND MUMMY CLOTH                          137
           XVI. REPRODUCTIONS FOUND IN NUBIA                   114




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                            LIST OF FIGURES
                          PRINTED IN THE TEXT


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           MODEL OF A FUNERARY CHAMBER; VIEW OF INTERIOR   35

           MODEL OF A FUNERARY CHAMBER; COMPLETE OBJECT    37

           HORUS HAWK                                      40

           BES                                             41

           FIGURE OF A NUBIAN, MADE OF SLATE               42

           SANDSTONE TABLET AND KNEELING FIGURE            54

           A WINGED SCARAB AND THE FOUR GENII              94

           A SEALED JAR, MADE OF WOOD, AND PAINTED TO     101
             REPRESENT STONE; PERIOD, 20TH DYNASTY

           A HAWK’S HEAD, THE LID OF A CANOPIC JAR        102

           SMALL ROUGH MODEL OF AN IBIS, IN PORCELAIN    106a

           HATHOR                                        106b

           JAR MADE OF SERPENTINE                         108

          