I am indebted to the Curator of the City Art Gallery, Manchester, for permission to publish the object illustrated on fig. i, which was acquired some years ago with a number of other Egyptian antiquities in the John Yates Bequest. It is of gold, the maximum dimensions being 4.0 × 3.6 cm. and the weight 3.43 grms. Three figures—Demeter, Persephone and Harpocrates—are represented, standing to front on an oblong base the front of which is filled with conventional scrolls of vine sprays with bunches of grapes set in a rectangular reel-border. Demeter wears a peplos with himation, the end of which is thrown over the 1. shoulder, and a corn wreath with two ears rising diagonally from the forehead; she holds a sceptre in 1.