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OPERATIONS CARRIED ON^AT GIZEII.
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The sand had now been cleared out in Campbell's
Tomb to a level with the grotto communicating with the
shaft at the south-western corner, in which a sarcophagus
was found on the 11th of February. This was now well
examined; it was composed of red granite, and inscribed
with rows of hieroglyphics. It lay east and west on the
southern side of the grotto, and the lid, which was also
covered with hieroglyphics, had been removed, and placed
near the wall. The grotto itself was roughly chiselled,
without plaster or decoration; and a sort of groove ran
round the walls close to the floor, in which small pieces
of rough stone were placed at nearly equal distances.
There were niches in the wall at the head and foot of
the sarcophagus, and two apertures had been roughly
cut through the sides of the grotto, one into the central
part of the tomb, and the other into the shaft, which
went down to a considerable depth. The sarcophagus
was empty, but sixty-five green idols, in a perfect state,
and several broken pieces were taken out from the sand,
with which the grotto was filled.
26tli. — I examined the southern dyke, and the tombs
on the hills near it, which appear to extend to Abouseir
and Saccara. The shafts were in general extremely
deep. They had been, no doubt, pillaged by the an-
tients, and many of them had been recently opened by
Mr. Massara, and by other persons. One of the most
considerable was that alluded to by M. Caviglia on the
4th of February. It was a large rectangular pit, forty-
three feet in depth to the sand at the bottom. The
edges were marked with hollows, that had the appearance
of gutters, and a square passage like the inclined entrances
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The sand had now been cleared out in Campbell's
Tomb to a level with the grotto communicating with the
shaft at the south-western corner, in which a sarcophagus
was found on the 11th of February. This was now well
examined; it was composed of red granite, and inscribed
with rows of hieroglyphics. It lay east and west on the
southern side of the grotto, and the lid, which was also
covered with hieroglyphics, had been removed, and placed
near the wall. The grotto itself was roughly chiselled,
without plaster or decoration; and a sort of groove ran
round the walls close to the floor, in which small pieces
of rough stone were placed at nearly equal distances.
There were niches in the wall at the head and foot of
the sarcophagus, and two apertures had been roughly
cut through the sides of the grotto, one into the central
part of the tomb, and the other into the shaft, which
went down to a considerable depth. The sarcophagus
was empty, but sixty-five green idols, in a perfect state,
and several broken pieces were taken out from the sand,
with which the grotto was filled.
26tli. — I examined the southern dyke, and the tombs
on the hills near it, which appear to extend to Abouseir
and Saccara. The shafts were in general extremely
deep. They had been, no doubt, pillaged by the an-
tients, and many of them had been recently opened by
Mr. Massara, and by other persons. One of the most
considerable was that alluded to by M. Caviglia on the
4th of February. It was a large rectangular pit, forty-
three feet in depth to the sand at the bottom. The
edges were marked with hollows, that had the appearance
of gutters, and a square passage like the inclined entrances