The eye paint is referred to by Ezekiel (23: 40), and the mirrors which the women of

Israel brought out of Egypt, with which the brazen laver was made, must have been

identical with those contained in this collection. In many cases the eye paint is contained

in four tubes. No. 43 is a good specimen, the tubes being inscribed with the signs for life,

good luck, stability, and the owner's name. In No. 46 we have four tubes to contain

eye-paint for different seasons of the year, one for spring, one for summer, one for the

inundation, and one for every day.  The combs look quite up to date.  Some are

ornamented with animal forms on the back, some have teeth in two sizes. The razor

marked 68 may have shaved the royal chin of the original of the great head and arm in the

Gallery below, for it is inscribed with the prenomen of Thothmes 3: On the shelf below

are to be seen pieces of the colours used for painting the papyri, together with mullers

and slabs for grinding them.

Standard Case C contains some objects of interest. On the second shelf will be seen a

series of children's toys and dolls. Some of the dolls are round, some are flat. Some

have strings of mud beads to represent hair. One toy which ought to be noticed is a

model of a cat or other animal, having a movable jaw to which a string is attached. When

we learn that these were the toys of the period that the sons of Israel went down in Egypt,

can we believe that they would not bring back some such souvenir of their visit to the

foreign land? One can legitimately imagine some of Jacob's grandchildren receiving a

flat doll or a toy animal that moved its mouth, as shown in this collection. There are also

balls made of porcelain, papyrus, and leather, stuffed with chopped straw, etc. Several

draught boards and sets of draughtsmen are also shown. On the floor of the case is a

model of a granary, taken from a tomb of the seventh dynasty. Here we may see

something that will enable us to imagine how Joseph stored the wheat during the seven

years of plenty. The grain is poured into small holes at the top of the bin, of which there

are seven in this model.

In Table Case J may be seen a collection of rings. No. 198 belonged to Thothmes III

who reigned between the end of Genesis and beginning of Exodus. No. 390 is a silver

ring of Amen-hetep 4:, the last of the line before the rise of the "new King who knew

not Joseph." We can easily imagine therefore what the ring looked like that was given to

Joseph by Pharaoh.

In Standard Case L is a large wooden toilet box which belonged to the wife of the

scribe Ani, whose work we shall consider presently. The box contains a terra cotta vase

and two alabaster vases containing ointments, a piece of pumice stone, eye paint, a

medicinal paste to be used when the air is filled with sand, an ivory comb, a bronze

"shell," a pair of gazelle skin sandals with turned up toes, tanned pink, and three cushions

for the elbows. As a final evidence that "there is nothing new under the sun," Wall Case

150 contains a "boomerang" inscribed with the name of Amen-hetep 4:

The wonderful collection of articles in this room present to us evidence of the highly

developed life, social and domestic habits, and doings of this ancient people. As we go

back in history we find these traces of "civilization," we never find a nation's history