Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Such an early date (3500 B.c.) cannot be admitted altogether without question, since it is uncertain whether the paintings were executed during the reign of Ousertasen I. or his successors. Fig. 2.—Theban Glass-makers. While stating authoritatively that glass-making was practised at Thebes, let us take another example which will be indisputable, for the necklace bead of Fig. 3.—Thoban G!ass-makers. which we give an illustration (Fig. 4) bears the name of the queen for whom it was made, and, consequently, the date of its fabrication. This glass bead was found at Thebes, by Captain Hervey of the Royal Marines; and a description of it has been given by Sir Gardner Wilkinson, in which he states that this ' The Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians.' Vol. iii. p. 88. Ed. 1847. chapter{Section 4" moulded " bead of very advanced art bears the hieroglyphic legend of the queen impressed upon it in sunken characters. Fig. 4.—Bead of a Fig. 5.—Inscription in Hieroglyphics. Royal Necklace. This legend round the ao. has in the engraving been extended, so as to enable the reader to see the whole of it at ouce. For the translation of it we are indebted to M. Theodulfe Deveria, son of the celebrated Achille Deveria, already well-known in the scientific world for his ability in deciphering hieroglyphics. We give his own words : " Only the first line of this legend is legible. It may be translated without difficulty as follows:— ' The good goddess (i.e., the queen) Ra-ma-ka, the loved of Athor, protectress of Thebes.' Ra-ma-ka was the first name of the Queen Hatasou, the wife of Thoutmes III., who reigned in the eighteenth dynasty (1500 B.c., according to the chronology of Brugsch)." Here then we see Thebes with this manufacture without any precise date, ...