potamus-goddess
Toeris, of whom there are besides two representations in lapis-lazuli ;
then we have a heart of lapis-lazuli; a cat of lapis-lazuli; four
falcons of carne-lian; one crocodile of carnelian and two of
lapis-lazuli; four fish of carnelian, as well as two others of a
blackish-white and of a green stone, respectively, and two scorpions
of carnelian, and seven flower-forms of the same stone. The greater
part of the beads in this necklace are of annular form, of gold,
electrum, ivory, or lapis-lazuli ; there are a few larger annular or
spherical beads of carnelian, Chrysoprase, and malachite, and measuring
up to 3.5 cm. in diameter.12
A necklace, from the time of the Old Empire (c. 3500 b.c.), and
having for its chief adornment a turquoise pendant rudely fashioned
into the form of an ibex, was found by the German Orient-Gesellschaft
at Abusir el-Meleq in 1905. This necklace, the parts of which were
found about the neck of a body, presumably that of a young man, was
composed of rounded and annular beads of carnelian and shell, as well
as of flat, perforated fragments of turquoise and almandine garnet and
an approximately lozenge-shaped bead of amethyst 1.7 cm. long and 1.4
cm. broad. The chief ornament was the turquoise ibex 1.7 cm. in length
and 0.9 em. high.13 This figure suggests a comparison with
the animal and bird forms fashioned out of turquoise that have been
found in Indian graves in Arizona and New Mexico, and it probably had
the quality of a fetich, or at least of a
a" Aegyptische Goldschmiedearbeit," ed. by Heinrich Schaff er,
Berlin, 1910, pp. 25-32; necklace figured on PL V, other objects on Pis. V-VII.
"Ibid., p. 14, PL II, figs. 3a, 3b.
