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APPENDIX B
The smaller shaft (No. XI) between it and the wall opened at a
higher level into two rough and small chambers (Nos. i3, i/i), one at each
end; but contained no clue to the date or identity of any of its occupants.
The brick surround to this pit on the surface still retains two or three of
its courses. It is probably later than No. X, as its makers appear to
have been afraid of breaking into the chambers of that shaft.
In clearing the boundary wall of the courtyard on the north we came
upon the well (No. VII) of the gallery tomb which lies next but one to
our tomb on the north. This was emptied in the hope of finding addi-
tional fragments. At the end of the bottom of the shaft is a tiny and
very rude recess; at the other are two low and also very roughly hewn
chambers opening out of one another (No. 7). In one of these there lay
two thin slabs of sandstone, 90 cm. by 38, one of which was half covered
on one side by twenty-one lines in hieratic character; but the ink was so
abraded that only the expert, if even he, will be able to gather its gen-
eral import. The name of Thothmes III appears upon it. The two stones
are rabbeted, and together seem to have formed the end of a sarcophagus
built up of such stones, like that of Puyemre, or the doors to the chamber
they were found in. Shards of four pottery "canopic" jars were found
also, with inscriptions in ink of the type J>^^i|^]i|-^J**ij|jS. Nefer-
mosy seems, then, to have been the name of the owner of the jars, and
perhaps of the original occupant. See Plate LXXVII, 3.
The center of the courtyard was occupied by a large pit, or sunk area
(No. XII), to which an approach ran down from the east, reaching it
finally by a rough little stairway of two steps, projecting out into the pit.
At the other end was the doorway to the tomb. This consisted of a large
chamber (No. i5), long for its breadth and ending in a narrow shrine.
On the right side of the entrance in the area is a slight mastaba of rock
indicating that the common practice of placing a stela (in this case of
mud-plasterP) on the right side of the court had been followed here.
Part of the stone pavement in the entrance was still in situ, and one
stone of the right jamb. The pivot-hole into which the pin of the door
fitted is provided close by. Evidently the thicknesses of the rock walls
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The smaller shaft (No. XI) between it and the wall opened at a
higher level into two rough and small chambers (Nos. i3, i/i), one at each
end; but contained no clue to the date or identity of any of its occupants.
The brick surround to this pit on the surface still retains two or three of
its courses. It is probably later than No. X, as its makers appear to
have been afraid of breaking into the chambers of that shaft.
In clearing the boundary wall of the courtyard on the north we came
upon the well (No. VII) of the gallery tomb which lies next but one to
our tomb on the north. This was emptied in the hope of finding addi-
tional fragments. At the end of the bottom of the shaft is a tiny and
very rude recess; at the other are two low and also very roughly hewn
chambers opening out of one another (No. 7). In one of these there lay
two thin slabs of sandstone, 90 cm. by 38, one of which was half covered
on one side by twenty-one lines in hieratic character; but the ink was so
abraded that only the expert, if even he, will be able to gather its gen-
eral import. The name of Thothmes III appears upon it. The two stones
are rabbeted, and together seem to have formed the end of a sarcophagus
built up of such stones, like that of Puyemre, or the doors to the chamber
they were found in. Shards of four pottery "canopic" jars were found
also, with inscriptions in ink of the type J>^^i|^]i|-^J**ij|jS. Nefer-
mosy seems, then, to have been the name of the owner of the jars, and
perhaps of the original occupant. See Plate LXXVII, 3.
The center of the courtyard was occupied by a large pit, or sunk area
(No. XII), to which an approach ran down from the east, reaching it
finally by a rough little stairway of two steps, projecting out into the pit.
At the other end was the doorway to the tomb. This consisted of a large
chamber (No. i5), long for its breadth and ending in a narrow shrine.
On the right side of the entrance in the area is a slight mastaba of rock
indicating that the common practice of placing a stela (in this case of
mud-plasterP) on the right side of the court had been followed here.
Part of the stone pavement in the entrance was still in situ, and one
stone of the right jamb. The pivot-hole into which the pin of the door
fitted is provided close by. Evidently the thicknesses of the rock walls
60