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The inner
rooms
Inscribed
stones from
the excava-
tions
TWO RAMESSIDE TOMBS
to rough caves on each hand (Nos. VIII, X). No. VIII seems to connect
with the narrow tunnel to the east (No. 6). The debris in these rooms
was quite unfruitful, so far as it was worked over; but a fatal accident
that had recently occurred in a tomb close by made it inadvisable to
clear it to the bottom. At the end of corridor II a pit (No. 7) had been
sunk in the fairway to accommodate a burial, or to delay and disconcert
thieves, as in royal tombs. This, as also perhaps the caves VIII, IX, and
X, may be of a subsequent period. Corridor III was originally of greater
width, but the rock gave way, and a new wall had to be built inside it.
The sides of passages II and III, though marked on the plan as rock, are
often made good with rubble and mud which the plaster conceals. The
rock within which the chapel was built has collapsed, so that the tomb
now lies in a recess of the cliff (Plate XX).
Objects found during the excavations were not of great importance.
Of stonework there came to light:
(1) Two pieces of a slab painted light yellow, on which a scene is
incised; probably from the lintel of the outer door (Plate XL, 1). In
the center is a stela or cella with a god (Re?) seated in it, worshiped on
both sides by Apy and his wife.
(2) Part of the left jamb of the tomb of Anhur-khar (No. 299), show-
ing on the face hotep dy nisut prayers to Ptah-Sokar and Harakhti- Atum,
and, on the cheek, the figure of the deceased entering.
(3) Fragments of a pyramidion with a man adoring Re.1
(4) Part of a libation table with a prayer to a goddess ".. .Khent(et)-
Amentet, that she may give entrance and exit in the necropolis."
(5) The right-hand part of a stela, depicting Apy, "sculptor in the
place of Justice," and Dowesmiset, adoring; possibly from the altar in
the court (p. 36). Above is a bark.
(6) Part of another stela, showing the adoration of Osiris-Khenta-
mentet and Isis.
1M. Bruyere has since found the rest in the vicinity (Deir el Medineh, Part II, pp. 3a-34 and Pis. VII,
VIII). It may be the tip of a pyramid which surmounted the chapel or the entrance. On the east face is the
bark of the rising sun; on the north and south, figures of Apy adoring it; on the west, Apy worshiping the
sun as he moves to his setting from the south.
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rooms
Inscribed
stones from
the excava-
tions
TWO RAMESSIDE TOMBS
to rough caves on each hand (Nos. VIII, X). No. VIII seems to connect
with the narrow tunnel to the east (No. 6). The debris in these rooms
was quite unfruitful, so far as it was worked over; but a fatal accident
that had recently occurred in a tomb close by made it inadvisable to
clear it to the bottom. At the end of corridor II a pit (No. 7) had been
sunk in the fairway to accommodate a burial, or to delay and disconcert
thieves, as in royal tombs. This, as also perhaps the caves VIII, IX, and
X, may be of a subsequent period. Corridor III was originally of greater
width, but the rock gave way, and a new wall had to be built inside it.
The sides of passages II and III, though marked on the plan as rock, are
often made good with rubble and mud which the plaster conceals. The
rock within which the chapel was built has collapsed, so that the tomb
now lies in a recess of the cliff (Plate XX).
Objects found during the excavations were not of great importance.
Of stonework there came to light:
(1) Two pieces of a slab painted light yellow, on which a scene is
incised; probably from the lintel of the outer door (Plate XL, 1). In
the center is a stela or cella with a god (Re?) seated in it, worshiped on
both sides by Apy and his wife.
(2) Part of the left jamb of the tomb of Anhur-khar (No. 299), show-
ing on the face hotep dy nisut prayers to Ptah-Sokar and Harakhti- Atum,
and, on the cheek, the figure of the deceased entering.
(3) Fragments of a pyramidion with a man adoring Re.1
(4) Part of a libation table with a prayer to a goddess ".. .Khent(et)-
Amentet, that she may give entrance and exit in the necropolis."
(5) The right-hand part of a stela, depicting Apy, "sculptor in the
place of Justice," and Dowesmiset, adoring; possibly from the altar in
the court (p. 36). Above is a bark.
(6) Part of another stela, showing the adoration of Osiris-Khenta-
mentet and Isis.
1M. Bruyere has since found the rest in the vicinity (Deir el Medineh, Part II, pp. 3a-34 and Pis. VII,
VIII). It may be the tip of a pyramid which surmounted the chapel or the entrance. On the east face is the
bark of the rising sun; on the north and south, figures of Apy adoring it; on the west, Apy worshiping the
sun as he moves to his setting from the south.
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