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24 CATALOGUE DU MUSÉE DU CAIRE.<br />

26190. White lekythos. — Heiglit o m. i33 mill. (pi. IX).<br />

MM<br />

SiiAPE : Like n" 2C18/1.<br />

CoLOUR :<br />

'RESERVATION : iMUCU Much WOm.<br />

Oa<br />

rim, iieck, sliouUler, liandle and foot a coat ol' lus-<br />

treless red: on bodv coat of while; palterns in black glaze.<br />

Ornamentation : Pallern on slioulder as on n° 2618/1; pattern<br />

on body as skelched; lower part of bodv, top of foot, outside<br />

of bandle glazed black.<br />

26191. White lekythos. — Ileight m. 3^5 mill. — Saqqarali (or moi-e cor-<br />

reclly Mit Rahineh), Tell el Qala, Septeinber 1888.<br />

Shape and COLOUR : Same as n" 26t()0; biack glaze much reddened on one side.<br />

Ornamentation : Pattern on shoulder as on n" 26 1 86 ; round top of body, maeander frieze<br />

between two narrow bands; below, same as n° 26190, except that in ibe lower cross-<br />

batched band there are only ihree horizontal lines; narrow band round side of foot;<br />

four narrow grooves, made on wbeel, round lower part of body, untouched for the<br />

most part by the surrounding glaze (same on 11° 26190).<br />

Préservation : Mouth-piece, part of neck and part of body restored; body broken right<br />

across and mended; surface discoloured and worn.<br />

BiBL. : Journal d'entrée du Musée, n° 28009: Arcli. Anzeiger, 190a , p. i5G, n° 7.<br />

26192. White lekythos. — Heig;ht m. 2 1 5 mill.<br />

SiiAPE : Like 11" 26184.<br />

CoLOUR :<br />

Pattern round shoulder in black on reddish clay ground (or red coat faded?);<br />

pattern on body in black (turning to brown) on while coat; accessory wbite.<br />

Ornamentation : Shoulder-pattern as on 11° 2618Ù; pattern on body as on n" 26190<br />

wlth maeander frieze above; lower part of body black with tbin strips of whito.<br />

Préservation : Foot wanting; scratched and worn.<br />

26193. White lekythos. — Height m. i35 mill.<br />

Suape and COLOUR : Like n" 26190.<br />

Ornamentation : Shoulder-pattern like n" 2618/1; on body, maeander frieze above.<br />

between two bands : below, between two bands a chain of three palmettes, of wbich<br />

the centre one is erect and the other two turned over, is interwound wlth a similar<br />

chain reversed and placed directly below; little spirals, dots, and crosses in the<br />

vacant spaces ;<br />

below, two rows of dots between two bands.<br />

Préservation : Foot and half of neck wanting; discoloured and worn.

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