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OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEII.
(see F, Plate III., Fig. 1), fragments of the top of a
mummy-case (inscribed with hieroglyphics, and amongst
them, with the cartouche of Menkahre) were discovered
upon a block of stone, together with part of a skeleton,
consisting of ribs and vertebra?, and the bones of the legs
and feet6 enveloped in coarse woollen cloth of a yellow
colour, to which a small quantity of resinous substance
and gum was attached. More of the board and cloth were
afterwards taken out of the rubbish. It would therefore
6 These relics are in the British Museum. Not being present when
they were found, I requested Mr. Raven, when that gentleman wa3 in
England, to write an account of the discovery, in order that it might be
published : —
" Sik, " London, llth July, 1838.
" By your request, I send you the particulars of the find-
ing of the bones, mummy-cloth, and parts of the coffin, in the Third
Pyramid. In clearing the rubbish out of the large entrance-room, after
the men had been employed there several days, and had advanced some
distance towards the south-eastern corner, some bones were first disco-
vered at the bottom of the rubbish ; and the remaining bones and parts
of the coffin were immediately discovered altogether: no other parts
of the coffin or bones could be found in the room; I therefore had
the rubbish, which had been previously turned out of the same room,
carefully re-examined, when several pieces of the coffin and of the
mummy-cloth were found; but in no other part of the pyramid were
any parts of it to be discovered, although every place was most minutely
examined to make the coffin as complete as possible. There was about
three feet of rubbish on the top of the same; and from the circumstance
of the bones and part of the coffin being all found together, it appeared
as if the coffin had been brought to that spot, and there unpacked.
" I am, Sir,
" Your most obedient servant,
" To Col. Howard Vyse." " H. Raven.
OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEII.
(see F, Plate III., Fig. 1), fragments of the top of a
mummy-case (inscribed with hieroglyphics, and amongst
them, with the cartouche of Menkahre) were discovered
upon a block of stone, together with part of a skeleton,
consisting of ribs and vertebra?, and the bones of the legs
and feet6 enveloped in coarse woollen cloth of a yellow
colour, to which a small quantity of resinous substance
and gum was attached. More of the board and cloth were
afterwards taken out of the rubbish. It would therefore
6 These relics are in the British Museum. Not being present when
they were found, I requested Mr. Raven, when that gentleman wa3 in
England, to write an account of the discovery, in order that it might be
published : —
" Sik, " London, llth July, 1838.
" By your request, I send you the particulars of the find-
ing of the bones, mummy-cloth, and parts of the coffin, in the Third
Pyramid. In clearing the rubbish out of the large entrance-room, after
the men had been employed there several days, and had advanced some
distance towards the south-eastern corner, some bones were first disco-
vered at the bottom of the rubbish ; and the remaining bones and parts
of the coffin were immediately discovered altogether: no other parts
of the coffin or bones could be found in the room; I therefore had
the rubbish, which had been previously turned out of the same room,
carefully re-examined, when several pieces of the coffin and of the
mummy-cloth were found; but in no other part of the pyramid were
any parts of it to be discovered, although every place was most minutely
examined to make the coffin as complete as possible. There was about
three feet of rubbish on the top of the same; and from the circumstance
of the bones and part of the coffin being all found together, it appeared
as if the coffin had been brought to that spot, and there unpacked.
" I am, Sir,
" Your most obedient servant,
" To Col. Howard Vyse." " H. Raven.