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The burial-
place and its
furniture
THE TOMB OF NAKHT
17. A red pottery pitcher with handle, decorated with a double
black line at the junction of the neck and shoulder. Similar double
lines run from this to the foot, with black spots between the lines
(Plate XXIX, 3).1
18. Three funerary cones inscribed with the
name and titles of Nakht and his wife. The ad-
jacent drawing is from a perfect example in my
possession (Figure 8). Another in the Cairo
Museum, along with a wedge-shaped brick of
burnt clay (Figure 9) stamped on three sides
with the same impress, is probably derived
FIGURE 8
FUNERARY CONE OF NAKHT
SCALE 1:2
from M. Grebaut's clearance of the tomb.2
FIGURE 9
WEDGE-SHAPED BRICK OF NAKHT. SCALE 1:2
19. A tiny hard-wood stick for applying kohl to the eyes.
20. A wooden hair-pin.
The tomb of Nakht also contains, but perhaps fortuitously, a ped-
estal like an elongated pot-stand, carrying a round slab on top.3 It
is hollow and roughly made of unbaked mud mixed with straw. This
is, in rude form, the blue pedestal of the round alabaster slab which
'Cf. Davies, Five Theban Tombs, p. 6; Petrie, Qurneh, PL XL, No. 657; Rosellini, Mon. Civili, PL
LV, Nos. 62, 63.
2Daressy, Cones Funeraires, No. 271.
31 found it in the inner room among stones derived from an excavation of a later tomb, No. 23.
place and its
furniture
THE TOMB OF NAKHT
17. A red pottery pitcher with handle, decorated with a double
black line at the junction of the neck and shoulder. Similar double
lines run from this to the foot, with black spots between the lines
(Plate XXIX, 3).1
18. Three funerary cones inscribed with the
name and titles of Nakht and his wife. The ad-
jacent drawing is from a perfect example in my
possession (Figure 8). Another in the Cairo
Museum, along with a wedge-shaped brick of
burnt clay (Figure 9) stamped on three sides
with the same impress, is probably derived
FIGURE 8
FUNERARY CONE OF NAKHT
SCALE 1:2
from M. Grebaut's clearance of the tomb.2
FIGURE 9
WEDGE-SHAPED BRICK OF NAKHT. SCALE 1:2
19. A tiny hard-wood stick for applying kohl to the eyes.
20. A wooden hair-pin.
The tomb of Nakht also contains, but perhaps fortuitously, a ped-
estal like an elongated pot-stand, carrying a round slab on top.3 It
is hollow and roughly made of unbaked mud mixed with straw. This
is, in rude form, the blue pedestal of the round alabaster slab which
'Cf. Davies, Five Theban Tombs, p. 6; Petrie, Qurneh, PL XL, No. 657; Rosellini, Mon. Civili, PL
LV, Nos. 62, 63.
2Daressy, Cones Funeraires, No. 271.
31 found it in the inner room among stones derived from an excavation of a later tomb, No. 23.