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THE CHAPEL OF PTAHHETEP.
this and the south false door. It is uncertain
whether the lintel also was grained.
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The decoration is terminated below by two
deep horizontal bands of red and of yellow,
each bordered above with black. The " cord "
pattern, which Professor Petrie has now carried
back to the 1st Dynasty, also ends here. (In
PL xix. it is extended incorrectly to the bottom
of the groove.) A strip, extending completely
across the right half of the door near the foot, is
reproduced in PI. xx., and exhibits not only the
live patterns employed on the door-jambs, but
also an interesting representation from which it
would appear that long pieces of matting or
similar material were wont to be laid over the
blank spaces of the walls on either side of
important doorways, and laced down taut to
loops fixed below.
South False Door (see PI. xxix.).—This
door is chiefly decorated, as the walls are, by
painted hieroglyphs and figures in relief on a
dull grey background. Scarcely any of the
colouring: now remains. The door is farther
ornamented in the customary way by a torus
moulding and " cavetto" cornice, the latter
painted with vertical bands of colour, slightly
separated from one another, in the order blue,
green, red, green. The recess is treated like
that of the north false door, but without divi-
sion into planks. The drum is coloured red.
Traces of paint in the recesses on either side
of the tablet show that they were occupied by a
miniature representation resembling the north
door, with all the detail which the space
allowed.
13. The colours on PI. xviii. have been
reproduced as closely as possible from the frag-
ments of paint which remain. Where there
was no guide to the colour the space has been
left blank (border of huntsman's dress; apex of
pyramid, fig. 400; bands at the foot of the
tower, fig. 406 ; hair riband (?), fig. 398, &c).
this and the south false door. It is uncertain
whether the lintel also was grained.
o
The decoration is terminated below by two
deep horizontal bands of red and of yellow,
each bordered above with black. The " cord "
pattern, which Professor Petrie has now carried
back to the 1st Dynasty, also ends here. (In
PL xix. it is extended incorrectly to the bottom
of the groove.) A strip, extending completely
across the right half of the door near the foot, is
reproduced in PI. xx., and exhibits not only the
live patterns employed on the door-jambs, but
also an interesting representation from which it
would appear that long pieces of matting or
similar material were wont to be laid over the
blank spaces of the walls on either side of
important doorways, and laced down taut to
loops fixed below.
South False Door (see PI. xxix.).—This
door is chiefly decorated, as the walls are, by
painted hieroglyphs and figures in relief on a
dull grey background. Scarcely any of the
colouring: now remains. The door is farther
ornamented in the customary way by a torus
moulding and " cavetto" cornice, the latter
painted with vertical bands of colour, slightly
separated from one another, in the order blue,
green, red, green. The recess is treated like
that of the north false door, but without divi-
sion into planks. The drum is coloured red.
Traces of paint in the recesses on either side
of the tablet show that they were occupied by a
miniature representation resembling the north
door, with all the detail which the space
allowed.
13. The colours on PI. xviii. have been
reproduced as closely as possible from the frag-
ments of paint which remain. Where there
was no guide to the colour the space has been
left blank (border of huntsman's dress; apex of
pyramid, fig. 400; bands at the foot of the
tower, fig. 406 ; hair riband (?), fig. 398, &c).