towards the approach of the First Dynasty,the working of stone vases assumed a new char-acter and stimulus. The royal tombs of the FirstDynasty at Abydos have furnished numerousexamples of the height which this art rapidlyattained. At Hierakonpolis and El Kabexcavations have shown the forms… … GROUP OF MODEL VASES VA8ES AND TABLE OF ALABASTER. 1:3 REQAQNAH. TYPES OF HARD-STONE VASES (i.), AND ALABASTER TABLES : THIRD DYNASTY. VIM. \Jviins I 8 i/iicflv in Diorilc. Nos. i and 4 in Porphyry also.\