INDEX
Reading edition
Alabaster, attempt to reproduce the features of Mykerinos in, 98 forgeries made on a lathe, 95 head in, 96 irregularities in old pots, 96 jars, 95 pots, 96
Amulets, 78
Ancient pigments, 92
Answerers, 35
Antiquities, laws regarding, 6 licence necessary for excavating and selling, 7 forged, makers and sellers of, 125
Beads made of glass, 116 Roman, 116
Bes, 41
Blue, old Egyptian, 61
Blue bowl, 27
Bone figures, 53
Bronze statue from Khargeh, 65
Canopic jar, 102
Chinese bottles, 106
Co-operation of sellers, 68
Cuneiform tablets, 123
Earthenware blue bowl, 27
Egyptologists, 135
154Fourth Dynasty work, excellence of, 148
Frauds on buyers seldom made public, 9
Funerary chamber, model of, 37 figures, 35, 41, 42
Glazing, methods of, 103
Goddess Taurt, 101, 112
Gold bracelets, 20, 23 bottles, detection of fraudulent, 24 necklace from Algiers, 22 of genuine carnelian beads and spurious bottles, 22 ornaments, 11 price paid for, 12 relics, fraud discovered by date on coins, 17 ring, spurious, 23 scarab, 21 worker in, 25
Granite bowls, fraudulent, 108 price paid for, 108 way of making, 110
Hawk’s head, 102
Horus hawk, 40 sons of, 53, 105
Ibis, model of, 106
Imitations, excellence of, 10
Iridescent glass, 32
155Jewish collector and the Arab, story of, 55
Lapis Lazuli imitations, 27, 29, 31, 32 Figure, Plate X, No. 4
Laws regarding antiquities, 6
Licence necessary to excavate antiquities, 7
Makers and sellers of forged antiquities, 125
Mummy and mummy cases, 114
Mummy, story of “predynastic,” 117 cloth, 115 figures, 41
Nubia, examples of Egyptian objects found in, 143
Nubian figure, 42
Opinion as to genuineness of scarabs not given by Cairo Museum Authorities, 67 method of obtaining expert, 4
Pigments, ancient, 92
Porcelain, 99 bottle, 100 bowl, 101 examples of blue, 101, 102 figures known as forgeries, 102 jug, with a piece of mummy cloth in the mouth, 105 lotus cup and bowl, 104 paper-weights, 54 156price of forgeries, 103 sacred eyes, 106 winged scarab, 104
Prussian blue, use of, 41
Reeds used as brushes, 44
Scagliola, use of, introduced, 51
Scarab, the Abou Roash, 81 bearing story of Khaf-ra, 73 the story of the circumnavigation of Africa, 70 Weigall’s story of a, 82 winged, and the four Genii, 94
Scarabs, 69, 84 exported to the Soudan, 83 made in Europe, 80 maker of spurious, 76 recutting, 76 remoulding, 75
Sculpture, ancient, produced in conformity with a canon, 48
Seals, 91
Serpentine, jar made in, 108 statue in, 48
Slate, crocodile in, 54
Speech of Amenemhat, 137
Statues of Isis and Horus, 62, 65
Steatite bottle, 47
Stone figures, 45 price of, 50 forgeries, maker of, 51 heads, 46 imitation of, 47-49 157kneeling figure and tablet, 54, 55 statue, bronze, from Khargeh, 65
Tale of Jewish collector and an Arab, 55 of spurious gold articles found in the Delta, 12 of two Arabs, 57 of the “predynastic mummy,” 117 of the Scarab of Khaf-ra, 73
Taurt, Goddess, 101, 112
Tomb, a forged, 119
158“Triple divorce.” Talak-bi-Talata, 14, 19
Ushebti figures, 35, 47 composition of, 47, 49
Woman, figure of a, 48
Wood, figures in, 35 forgeries in, ways of detecting, 36-40 makers of, 43
Wooden figure of Anubis, 37 jars, 100 model of dove, 44 model of plough, 42 mummy figures, 4 paint boxes, 43
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