Note 366 — Chapter IV · THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS.

The British Museum possesses some fine examples of these coffins; they were transported to England by Loftus, who had some difficulty in bringing them home intact. See Loftus, Travels and Researches, &c., p. 204; Layard, Discoveries, pp. 558–561; and Birch, History of Ancient Pottery, pp. 105–107. In the upper parts of the mounds at Warka and Niffer, where these slipper-shaped coffins were packed in thousands, fragments of glazed earthenware, plates and vases, were also found; they seemed to date from the same period.