FERLINIS "FIND" in stone and pastes, Nos. 118-148 ; Stones, Nos. 149-151 ; Objects in wood, Nos. 152-155. At the end of his Catalogue he pubHshed a plate of illustrations of some of the objects in outline, and a few of these have been reproduced in the present work. Soon after Ferlini returned to his native country he began to exhibit his collection to archaeologists and others, and it received considerable attention from the learned world in Europe, which was at that time profoundly interested in the decipherment of Egyptian hierogljphics, chiefly through the results obtained by Young, Champollion, and Rosellini. Whether Ferlini had in his possession all the objects which he obtained through his researches NO. 2.—GOLD ARMLET WITH FIGURES OF MUX AND OTHER GODDESSES, IN THE BERLIN MUSEUM.

From the Ferlini Collection.

in the Sudan, or whether he had only one-half of them—for it will be remembered that in his contract with Stefani the merchant he promised to give to him one-half of all his findings—cannot be said, but in any case his collection came into the market, and one part of it was purchased by the Royal Museum at Berlin and the other went to the Museum at Munich.

Dr. Birch, of the British Museum, viewed many of the objects with suspicion, and many others he regarded as imitations of ancient Egyptian jewellery made long after the kingdom of the Pharaohs had come to an end, and therefore declared them to be " forgeries." On the other hand, Lepsius [Letters, p. 207) had no doubt that the collection " belonged to a well-known, and as it 299