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BENI HASAN.
TOMB No. 19.
Unfinished. A small rectangular chamber, with low "cambered" ceiling and small unfinished shrine
in the south wall. Three mummy-pits. No paintings or inscriptions.
TOMB No. 20.
Unfinished. In plan a small rectangular chamber. Two mummy-pits.
TOMB No. 21.
Period.
Sitnation.
Name.
Titles.
Tomb of the
^ <ujgL "Great Chief of the Oeyx Nome,"
/WW\A f\
U Nekhta.
Xllth Dynasty. (The owner, Nekhta, is assumed to be identical with Nekht, the uncle of
Khnemhotep IL, see Beni Hasan, Part I., General Notice, § 3, for the date.)
Southern Group. (See Beni Hasan, Part I., PI. ii. No. 21.)
/WWW |\
ST^U Nekhta.
Parentage
and Family.
Architec-
ture.
Inscrip-
tions and
Paintings.
3 ha, " Ha-prince."
& XL,
n C^C. her tep aa n Mahez, "Great Chief of the Oryx nome."
^ (?) ^ mer set ablet, " Administrator of the Eastern Desert/
[—^n ^ ™ ~^ (®~V^-^]( ^, ^ em Mendt-Khufu, " fla-prince of the town of Menat-
Khufu." See Beni Hasan, Part I., p. 60, 1. 56.]
On the parentage and family of Nekhta see General Notice, § 7, p. 9.
Architecturally this tomb (PI. xxii.) appears to be of the same type as No. 15 (see p. 45), but smaller,
and with only two mummy-pits; the columns are destroyed.
Remains of an unfinished painting are to be seen on the lower part of the middle of the South wall.
As the explanatory inscription informs us, the scene represents : maa hat seMet d[»] ha..........[NeMta~],
"the watching of the work of the fields by the 2Za-prince.........[Nekhta] " (PI. xxii.a).
It is curious to note that the inscription which records his name, over the large standing figure of
Nekhta, has no beginning.
^ T
O
should probably have been painted in above the
single line.
On the West wall, to the left of the doorway, there has been scrawled in red paint on the rough surface
n n A/VWNA r\
of the stone, £ ffl J ^ (j kher heh Nekhta, " the lector Nekhta."
BENI HASAN.
TOMB No. 19.
Unfinished. A small rectangular chamber, with low "cambered" ceiling and small unfinished shrine
in the south wall. Three mummy-pits. No paintings or inscriptions.
TOMB No. 20.
Unfinished. In plan a small rectangular chamber. Two mummy-pits.
TOMB No. 21.
Period.
Sitnation.
Name.
Titles.
Tomb of the
^ <ujgL "Great Chief of the Oeyx Nome,"
/WW\A f\
U Nekhta.
Xllth Dynasty. (The owner, Nekhta, is assumed to be identical with Nekht, the uncle of
Khnemhotep IL, see Beni Hasan, Part I., General Notice, § 3, for the date.)
Southern Group. (See Beni Hasan, Part I., PI. ii. No. 21.)
/WWW |\
ST^U Nekhta.
Parentage
and Family.
Architec-
ture.
Inscrip-
tions and
Paintings.
3 ha, " Ha-prince."
& XL,
n C^C. her tep aa n Mahez, "Great Chief of the Oryx nome."
^ (?) ^ mer set ablet, " Administrator of the Eastern Desert/
[—^n ^ ™ ~^ (®~V^-^]( ^, ^ em Mendt-Khufu, " fla-prince of the town of Menat-
Khufu." See Beni Hasan, Part I., p. 60, 1. 56.]
On the parentage and family of Nekhta see General Notice, § 7, p. 9.
Architecturally this tomb (PI. xxii.) appears to be of the same type as No. 15 (see p. 45), but smaller,
and with only two mummy-pits; the columns are destroyed.
Remains of an unfinished painting are to be seen on the lower part of the middle of the South wall.
As the explanatory inscription informs us, the scene represents : maa hat seMet d[»] ha..........[NeMta~],
"the watching of the work of the fields by the 2Za-prince.........[Nekhta] " (PI. xxii.a).
It is curious to note that the inscription which records his name, over the large standing figure of
Nekhta, has no beginning.
^ T
O
should probably have been painted in above the
single line.
On the West wall, to the left of the doorway, there has been scrawled in red paint on the rough surface
n n A/VWNA r\
of the stone, £ ffl J ^ (j kher heh Nekhta, " the lector Nekhta."