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INTRODUCTION.
^HE black marble Sarcophagus1 of An^nesraneferab is pre-
served in the British Museum, and forms No. 32 of the
National Egyptian Collection. It was hewn out of a solid
piece of marble; it is 8 ft. 6-J in. long, 3 ft. 9 in. wide, and 3 ft. 6J in.
high. The outside and the inside of both " chest" and cover have
been beautifully smoothed, and, excepting the space occupied by
the figures of Athor and the goddess Nut or heaven, are entirely
covered by well-formed incuse hieroglyphics, arranged for the
most part in perpendicular lines. The cover is slightly vaulted2
at the sides, and on the outside rises to a rectangular panel in
which, in bas-relief, is the goddess Athor. She is represented in
profile, standing facing to the left, and on her head she wears the
solar disk, plumes, and horns. She also wears a head-dress com-
posed of the body and wings of a vulture, with an uraeus in
front; and round her neck is a collar. She is draped with a
fringed garment extending from her neck to her ancles; it covers
her wrists, and while its inner part has vertical folds, its outer has
horizontal. She also wears sandals with high ancle straps. In her
right hand she holds the whip /\ %u, and in the left the symbol of
1 Properly speaking, " chest ' or coffin. The Egyptians called such a thing tebu or tebt
K 1 "a box." Coptic, ©6.&.I, ©H.&.I, TH^.6, cippus, area sepulchral™, TAiAe,
Ti.lKl urna; Hebrew HSfl, Chaldee NfV"Q>1J?, Arabic 4^y^U'> Ethiopic ^fP^ •
2 This shape is peculiar to the coffins of the XXVIth Dynasty. (Dr. Birch, in
Wilkinson's " Ancient Egyptians," Vol. Ill, p. 490.)
^HE black marble Sarcophagus1 of An^nesraneferab is pre-
served in the British Museum, and forms No. 32 of the
National Egyptian Collection. It was hewn out of a solid
piece of marble; it is 8 ft. 6-J in. long, 3 ft. 9 in. wide, and 3 ft. 6J in.
high. The outside and the inside of both " chest" and cover have
been beautifully smoothed, and, excepting the space occupied by
the figures of Athor and the goddess Nut or heaven, are entirely
covered by well-formed incuse hieroglyphics, arranged for the
most part in perpendicular lines. The cover is slightly vaulted2
at the sides, and on the outside rises to a rectangular panel in
which, in bas-relief, is the goddess Athor. She is represented in
profile, standing facing to the left, and on her head she wears the
solar disk, plumes, and horns. She also wears a head-dress com-
posed of the body and wings of a vulture, with an uraeus in
front; and round her neck is a collar. She is draped with a
fringed garment extending from her neck to her ancles; it covers
her wrists, and while its inner part has vertical folds, its outer has
horizontal. She also wears sandals with high ancle straps. In her
right hand she holds the whip /\ %u, and in the left the symbol of
1 Properly speaking, " chest ' or coffin. The Egyptians called such a thing tebu or tebt
K 1 "a box." Coptic, ©6.&.I, ©H.&.I, TH^.6, cippus, area sepulchral™, TAiAe,
Ti.lKl urna; Hebrew HSfl, Chaldee NfV"Q>1J?, Arabic 4^y^U'> Ethiopic ^fP^ •
2 This shape is peculiar to the coffins of the XXVIth Dynasty. (Dr. Birch, in
Wilkinson's " Ancient Egyptians," Vol. Ill, p. 490.)