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THE MASTABA OF PTAHHETEP AND AKHETHETEP,
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fco damp, has caused great injury to the upper
portions. Nevertheless, much remains in fair
preservation, and where the stone is good the
reliefs have beautiful delieacy and finish. In
places a good deal of colour still remained,
though much of it was soon lost with the saline
iacrustations that lield it. On the N. wall of
the IST. bay this crust completely lud the
sculptures, and could only be removed with
great difficulty. In the opposite wall a hole,
scarcely large enough to admit even a child,
has- been broken, and discloses the position of
the serdab. As the Chamber appeared to be
empty and in ruin, I made no attempt to enter
it. It may be the serdab of which Mariette
speaks, but there is very likely another, dis-
covered or undiscovered, connected with the
burial of Ptahhetep.
14. The chief well lies to the W. of the
chapel of Ptahhetep. As Sheikh Rubi, search-
ing his excellent memory, asserted that the
stone sarcophagus in the burial vault bore a
short inscription, I made an attempt to reach it
at the close of the season, Avhile en^as-ed in
re-burying the tomb. But the well was so
spacious that I was obliged to desist, after
making considerable progress. Whether by
original design or owing to coliapse, the real
mouth of the well is only to be reached at
ground level. Above this the retaining walls
of rubble masonry enclose an enormous pit. A
much smalier shaft was discovered to the E. of
the corridor (PI. ii., section o). On reaching
the Chamber below it was found to be füll of the
debris of pillaged burials of late date, and may
possibly be itself a later construction. Accord-
ing to the Sheikh there is a well behind the
stela of Akhethetep. where indeed one was to
be expected. No signs of it were visible, but
the fallen stela may conceal the mouth. The
space between the stela and the exterior wall
is vacant, either owing to the coliapse of the
well or to excavations for the purpose of later
interments.
In the shaft of the small well there Avas
found the lower part of a gray granite shabti
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fco damp, has caused great injury to the upper
portions. Nevertheless, much remains in fair
preservation, and where the stone is good the
reliefs have beautiful delieacy and finish. In
places a good deal of colour still remained,
though much of it was soon lost with the saline
iacrustations that lield it. On the N. wall of
the IST. bay this crust completely lud the
sculptures, and could only be removed with
great difficulty. In the opposite wall a hole,
scarcely large enough to admit even a child,
has- been broken, and discloses the position of
the serdab. As the Chamber appeared to be
empty and in ruin, I made no attempt to enter
it. It may be the serdab of which Mariette
speaks, but there is very likely another, dis-
covered or undiscovered, connected with the
burial of Ptahhetep.
14. The chief well lies to the W. of the
chapel of Ptahhetep. As Sheikh Rubi, search-
ing his excellent memory, asserted that the
stone sarcophagus in the burial vault bore a
short inscription, I made an attempt to reach it
at the close of the season, Avhile en^as-ed in
re-burying the tomb. But the well was so
spacious that I was obliged to desist, after
making considerable progress. Whether by
original design or owing to coliapse, the real
mouth of the well is only to be reached at
ground level. Above this the retaining walls
of rubble masonry enclose an enormous pit. A
much smalier shaft was discovered to the E. of
the corridor (PI. ii., section o). On reaching
the Chamber below it was found to be füll of the
debris of pillaged burials of late date, and may
possibly be itself a later construction. Accord-
ing to the Sheikh there is a well behind the
stela of Akhethetep. where indeed one was to
be expected. No signs of it were visible, but
the fallen stela may conceal the mouth. The
space between the stela and the exterior wall
is vacant, either owing to the coliapse of the
well or to excavations for the purpose of later
interments.
In the shaft of the small well there Avas
found the lower part of a gray granite shabti
m
0
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1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
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INSCRIPTION ON LOWEK HALF OF GREY GRANITE SHABTI FIGURE FOUND IN DEBRIS FROM THE N. WELL OF
TOMB OF PTAHHETEP, SAQQAREH, 1899.
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