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Provision
for ritual
The entrance
The interior
TWO RAMESSIDE TOMBS
a block of sandstone let into the top surface. A stela must have been
painted on the wall behind it, or set up there. Opposite this platform,
and so close to it that there was scarcely room to pass, is an oblong
mastaba made of loose stones and brick, held together by a little mud
and a smear of plaster outside. It is now half gone and only a few inches
high; but it appears to have been solid and not an enclosure, though in
two other tombs of the row (Nos. 216, 266) similar free-standing edifices
have the appearance of flimsy shells.1
The entrance to the tomb chambers was by a narrow vaulted brick
passage in the center of the fagade, roughly plastered and paved with
stone. The raised stone sill and plain limestone jambs are shoddy, yet
a pivot-hole shows that an outer door was fitted. There is a curious
widening of the passage on the south side, into which perhaps a second
door, opening outwards, was thrown back. The north wall at the far-
ther end was decorated with a figure of Apy leaving the tomb, executed
in white outlines on a mud surface. Only the feet and the final hiero-
glyphs are now visible; the latter seem to mention sons, among them
one Nakhtamun.
The chapel lies a few inches lower than the passage and is paved
with brick. Only the lower parts of the walls now remain. It was
constructed of brick within the rock, the only possible method on the
site. This first room must have been a transversely vaulted one.
The spring of the arch may, perhaps, just be detected on the highest
point preserved; but nothing is left of the lunettes at either end. The
walls were coated with mud, on which a background of yellow paint
was directly laid. From this room, the only decorated one, another
vaulted passage, in a direct line with the first, leads to chambers beyond.
The opening to it is flanked, within the chapel, by two low pedestals
which jut out into the room and once supported statues of Apy and his
wife, standing with one foot advanced. These were molded in brick
and mud and were attached to the wall behind. The mud figure was
11 unearthed a flat slab of sandstone with a cavello cornice cut on the edge, which might have been one of
many crowning the fagade, or covering the supposed mastaba.
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for ritual
The entrance
The interior
TWO RAMESSIDE TOMBS
a block of sandstone let into the top surface. A stela must have been
painted on the wall behind it, or set up there. Opposite this platform,
and so close to it that there was scarcely room to pass, is an oblong
mastaba made of loose stones and brick, held together by a little mud
and a smear of plaster outside. It is now half gone and only a few inches
high; but it appears to have been solid and not an enclosure, though in
two other tombs of the row (Nos. 216, 266) similar free-standing edifices
have the appearance of flimsy shells.1
The entrance to the tomb chambers was by a narrow vaulted brick
passage in the center of the fagade, roughly plastered and paved with
stone. The raised stone sill and plain limestone jambs are shoddy, yet
a pivot-hole shows that an outer door was fitted. There is a curious
widening of the passage on the south side, into which perhaps a second
door, opening outwards, was thrown back. The north wall at the far-
ther end was decorated with a figure of Apy leaving the tomb, executed
in white outlines on a mud surface. Only the feet and the final hiero-
glyphs are now visible; the latter seem to mention sons, among them
one Nakhtamun.
The chapel lies a few inches lower than the passage and is paved
with brick. Only the lower parts of the walls now remain. It was
constructed of brick within the rock, the only possible method on the
site. This first room must have been a transversely vaulted one.
The spring of the arch may, perhaps, just be detected on the highest
point preserved; but nothing is left of the lunettes at either end. The
walls were coated with mud, on which a background of yellow paint
was directly laid. From this room, the only decorated one, another
vaulted passage, in a direct line with the first, leads to chambers beyond.
The opening to it is flanked, within the chapel, by two low pedestals
which jut out into the room and once supported statues of Apy and his
wife, standing with one foot advanced. These were molded in brick
and mud and were attached to the wall behind. The mud figure was
11 unearthed a flat slab of sandstone with a cavello cornice cut on the edge, which might have been one of
many crowning the fagade, or covering the supposed mastaba.
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