Ward, John, 1832-1912, Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London : J. Murray · leaf 551
for the annual subscription of £1. The publications aloneare worth double the money. There are five or six fine engraved Greek gems in the British MuseumCollection which I believe came from Naucratis, of about the fourth century B.C. THE FAYUM Dr. Petrie has made many discoveries in Egypt, but none… … were investigated. These contained many coffins made of cartonnage, a sortof cardboard made of quantities of papyrus pasted together. These on beingexamined were found to be made of ancient cast-off MSS., possibly derived fromdealers in old materials in Alexandria. Many dated papyri and…
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