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FURTHER ACCOUNT OF BURIALS FOUND UNDISTURBED.
25
Burials of the XIIth Dynasty.
Plate I.
E. 30.
It has already been shown in Chapter II,
how the chief part of this rich burial had
escaped the plunderers. The body had laid, appar-
ently, half over on its right side, and the head was
fallen towards the west. The arms lay naturally by
the side and in front of the body. Near the left
hand, which had been disturbed, lay the garnet beads,
small glazed pendants, and scarabs that appear in
the central string of the photograph. Apart from
them, and probably from the right wrist, were the
larger beads of carnelian that make up the longer
string adjoining. The smaller beads of garnet strung
with them were more generally scattered about, and
may have formed part of the other string of their
kind. Wound twice around the neck, and hanging
loose in a third loop of the larger beads, was the
necklace of rich coloured amethyst beads, graduated
and of globular form. They encircled the jewels of
gold, which were pendent on the breast. This set is
represented by the specimens in the photograph, but
duplicates remain at Cairo and are not shown here.
The full set included duplicates of each form, crowned
hawks, fish, birds in pairs and singly, in both gold
and silver. In front of the face was the mirror with
wooden handle. The tall alabaster vase lay obliquely
near the forehead, and near it was the smaller kohl
vessel of blue marble with a wooden stick. The
chamber was to the south, at the bottom of the shaft
of an ordinary pit-tomb 6 metres deep, bricked down
to about 1^ metres. The head was to the north, as
was invariably the case in this cemetery, and the
coffin was too much destroyed, by white ants and by
the plunderers' efforts, for its nature or decoration to
be made out.
E. 45-
Three burials were found in the larre northern
The other objects illustrated belong to three
groups ; on the right hand from burial (2) are beads,
a mirror, and a kohl vessel. In the centre are beads
and pendant, with a kohl vessel below (and a palette
for pounding this material not shown in the photo-
graph). On the left are a set of beads and two tall
vessels of limestone and serpentine. Burial (2),
counting from the east, with that disturbed as
number (1), was that of a child. In front of the face
was a mirror, wrapped in cloth ; near it was the small
kohl vessel of serpentine, and around the neck a
string of green glazed ball beads. Burial (3) was
that of an adult, probably a woman. She was decked
with a necklace of carnelian beads and a finely-
polished pendant of the same ; on her left wrist was
a string of garnet beads, large and lustrous. Near
her head had been placed her small vessel for holding
the kohl and the palette for preparing it, both of
serpentine. Burial (4) was again that of a child,
possibly a boy. Under the chin was the upright
vessel of serpentine, with its lid some ten inches
away, and near at hand was the other vessel similar
to it in form, made of limestone. Inside the palm of
the left hand was a plain amethyst scarab, and around
the neck was a string of small beads, composed
miscellaneously of carnelian, garnet, amethyst, and
green glaze. A bead of carnelian rested, seemingly,
in the left eye. All these burials lay parallel to one
another, in the same attitudes, with heads to the
north and faces towards the east.
Burials of the XIIIth-XVIth Dynasties.
chamber of this tomb, and the other remains
found scattered here and there about the entrance
indicated that a fourth had lain in a space found
vacant alongside the others on the east. These
objects include the statuette of Mut-sent, and the
pair of two figures shown on PL. Ill ; the gold disc
and pendants of electrum in the centre of the photo-
graph on the frontispiece, bearing this number, as
well as the beads of amethyst, four small pendants of
silver and a tube-bead of the same which are pictured
below.
Plate X.
e. 3.
Two of this row of three pits were undis-
turbed, one wholly, the other below its upper
chamber. In the one were two chambers superposed
both north and south ; in the other, to the east,
which was very deep, were four at each end, or eight
in all. There were thus a number of burials found in
them intact, and of these four are selected to illustrate
their types. The first is that from which the deposit
is figured on Pl. X. It came from the bottommost
chamber on the northerly side of the third or easterly
shaft. In the same chamber, to its west, was another
burial which was uninstructive. In front of the face
was lying the well fashioned jar of alabaster, shown
in the photograph. In other burials this place was
commonly assigned to the mirror, which in this case,
h.
FURTHER ACCOUNT OF BURIALS FOUND UNDISTURBED.
25
Burials of the XIIth Dynasty.
Plate I.
E. 30.
It has already been shown in Chapter II,
how the chief part of this rich burial had
escaped the plunderers. The body had laid, appar-
ently, half over on its right side, and the head was
fallen towards the west. The arms lay naturally by
the side and in front of the body. Near the left
hand, which had been disturbed, lay the garnet beads,
small glazed pendants, and scarabs that appear in
the central string of the photograph. Apart from
them, and probably from the right wrist, were the
larger beads of carnelian that make up the longer
string adjoining. The smaller beads of garnet strung
with them were more generally scattered about, and
may have formed part of the other string of their
kind. Wound twice around the neck, and hanging
loose in a third loop of the larger beads, was the
necklace of rich coloured amethyst beads, graduated
and of globular form. They encircled the jewels of
gold, which were pendent on the breast. This set is
represented by the specimens in the photograph, but
duplicates remain at Cairo and are not shown here.
The full set included duplicates of each form, crowned
hawks, fish, birds in pairs and singly, in both gold
and silver. In front of the face was the mirror with
wooden handle. The tall alabaster vase lay obliquely
near the forehead, and near it was the smaller kohl
vessel of blue marble with a wooden stick. The
chamber was to the south, at the bottom of the shaft
of an ordinary pit-tomb 6 metres deep, bricked down
to about 1^ metres. The head was to the north, as
was invariably the case in this cemetery, and the
coffin was too much destroyed, by white ants and by
the plunderers' efforts, for its nature or decoration to
be made out.
E. 45-
Three burials were found in the larre northern
The other objects illustrated belong to three
groups ; on the right hand from burial (2) are beads,
a mirror, and a kohl vessel. In the centre are beads
and pendant, with a kohl vessel below (and a palette
for pounding this material not shown in the photo-
graph). On the left are a set of beads and two tall
vessels of limestone and serpentine. Burial (2),
counting from the east, with that disturbed as
number (1), was that of a child. In front of the face
was a mirror, wrapped in cloth ; near it was the small
kohl vessel of serpentine, and around the neck a
string of green glazed ball beads. Burial (3) was
that of an adult, probably a woman. She was decked
with a necklace of carnelian beads and a finely-
polished pendant of the same ; on her left wrist was
a string of garnet beads, large and lustrous. Near
her head had been placed her small vessel for holding
the kohl and the palette for preparing it, both of
serpentine. Burial (4) was again that of a child,
possibly a boy. Under the chin was the upright
vessel of serpentine, with its lid some ten inches
away, and near at hand was the other vessel similar
to it in form, made of limestone. Inside the palm of
the left hand was a plain amethyst scarab, and around
the neck was a string of small beads, composed
miscellaneously of carnelian, garnet, amethyst, and
green glaze. A bead of carnelian rested, seemingly,
in the left eye. All these burials lay parallel to one
another, in the same attitudes, with heads to the
north and faces towards the east.
Burials of the XIIIth-XVIth Dynasties.
chamber of this tomb, and the other remains
found scattered here and there about the entrance
indicated that a fourth had lain in a space found
vacant alongside the others on the east. These
objects include the statuette of Mut-sent, and the
pair of two figures shown on PL. Ill ; the gold disc
and pendants of electrum in the centre of the photo-
graph on the frontispiece, bearing this number, as
well as the beads of amethyst, four small pendants of
silver and a tube-bead of the same which are pictured
below.
Plate X.
e. 3.
Two of this row of three pits were undis-
turbed, one wholly, the other below its upper
chamber. In the one were two chambers superposed
both north and south ; in the other, to the east,
which was very deep, were four at each end, or eight
in all. There were thus a number of burials found in
them intact, and of these four are selected to illustrate
their types. The first is that from which the deposit
is figured on Pl. X. It came from the bottommost
chamber on the northerly side of the third or easterly
shaft. In the same chamber, to its west, was another
burial which was uninstructive. In front of the face
was lying the well fashioned jar of alabaster, shown
in the photograph. In other burials this place was
commonly assigned to the mirror, which in this case,
h.