Davies, Norman de Garis; Davies, Norman de Garis [Hrsg.]: The Mastaba of Ptahhetep and Akhethetep at Saqqareh (Band 2): The Mastaba. The sculptures of akhethetep (London, 1901)

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THE MASTABA OE PTAHHETEP AND AKHETHETEP.

Plates XXV. to XXVII. Oßcials pre-
senting gifts (repetition on a larger scale from
PL xxiv.). Here and there the name of the
ofiicial has not been cut, but remains in ink
on a tablet of unsunk stone. The sculpture
is very fmeiy executed.

Plates XXVIII. and XXIX. Remains of
great monolithic stela (representing the door-
way by which the spirit of the dead entered
the room). It formed the end of the Chamber
(now overthrown). The upper half has been
broken away, but the two fragments of it here
shown were found in the debris. The mark of
interrogafcion over the inscription on the lintel
in PI. xxix. applies only to the last three signs

of the word maat, which are now effaced. I
owe this rectincation to the kindness of Dr.
Schäfer, who visited the tomb in order to set
my doubts at rest.

Plates XXX. to XXXIII. Oßcials present-
ing gifts. (For relative position see PI. xxxiv.)
Here and there a name is only inscribed in red
ink on the sunk background.

Plate XXXIV. Key-plate of the 8. Wall
(including the last four plates). The inscrip«^

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tions on seven fallen stones are incorporatedg
The hieroglyphs are represented in solid blaeü*
only for the sake of clearness.