THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN happens, the " greatest of all the queens of Meroe, who built "almost all the temples still in tolerable preservation on the " Island," and, from this circumstance, Ferlini's jewels, Lepsius says, " become infinitely more valuable for the history of Ethiopian "art, in which they now occupy a fixed position." Further, he considered "the purchase of that remarkable discovery" as a " most important acquisition" o£ the Berlin Museum. In referring to the value of Ferlini's jewels, it is important to note that Lepsius says they were found hidden in the " wall work " of the pyramid, a statement which suggests that he did not believe in the existence of a chamber at the top of the pyramid.

NO. 3.—GOLD ARMLET, IN THE BERLIN MUSEUM.

From the Ferlini Collection.

With the help of the splendid plate of coloured reproductions of the jewellery published by Lepsius in the Denkmdler (Abth. V.

Bl. 42), and the list given in the official Ausfiihrliches Verzeichnis, the principal objects of the Berlin portion of Ferlini's collection may be thus enumerated : I and 2. Pair of gold armlets with hinges. In the centre is a row of gold figures wearing disks, set in green enamel, on the top edge is a row of uraei wearing disks in gold, in a setting of blue enamel, and on the bottom edge are designs of diamonds and buds inlaid with red and blue enamel. (See illustration No. i.)

' " Die Pyramide mit romisch gewolbter Vorkammer, in deren Mauerwerk "Ferlini den Schatz verborgen fand." Lepsius, Bric/c, p. 218. Berlin, 1852.

* Page 314 of the 1894 edition, and p. 407 of the 1899 edition.

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