Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), 1853-1942 · [London] : Religious Tract Society · leaf 67
60 TEN YEARS’ DIGGING IN EGYPT has given us the dates of some parts of the building ; for the plaster sealings of the wine jars bear the cartouches of the king, and they were most likely knocked off and thrown aside within a few years of being sealed. One room seemed to have belonged to the royal… … 45. SEALED JAR NECK, WITH NAME OF AMASIS. plaster, and the pottery stopper below it, and then stopping the hole with fresh plaster. The prudent butler had struck off the whole neck of the jar, so as to preserve the proofs of the theft entire. The particularity of the sealing is remarkable; first the
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