She carries in each hand the emblem of protection, called "_Sa_." The statuette of the illustration is in green serpentine .-- A.B.E.
[53] _Sebakh_, signifying "salt," or "saltpetre," is the general term for that saline dust which accumulates wherever there are mounds of brick or limestone ruins.

This dust is much valued as a manure, or "top-dressing," and is so constantly dug out and carried away by the natives, that the mounds of ancient towns and villages are rapidly undergoing destruction in all parts of Egypt .-- A.B.E.
[54] For an example of Graeco-Egyptian portrait painting, _tempo_ Hadrian, see p.

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