Newberry, Percy E. : Beni Hasan (Band 2) (London, 1893)

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BENT HASAN.

The paintings here are too much defaced to copy. The accompanying diagram, made from what
remains of the scenes, may be taken as giving the scheme upon which they were arranged:—

FRIEZE

INSCRIPTION

Seated
Figure of
Baqt.
Below his chair

Four large Figures.

A

Dwarf.

Figure of Baqt.

Hunting
and
Agricultural
Scenes.

are
two dogs.



Standing



TOMB No. 34.

Unfinished (see PI. xxxvii.). A small square chamber, with remains of Coptic plaster on the floor
and walls. Two mummy-pits.

TOMB No. 35.

Unfinished (see PI. xxxvii.). Apparently only the exterior portico is begun. It has a curved roof.
Across the front of the entrance is the opening to a mummy-pit.

TOMB No. 36.

Unfinished (see PI. xxxvii.). A small square chamber. On the East wall are two small seated
figures (cut in the solid rock) flanking a larger one, now much mutilated.

TOMB No. 37.

Unfinished (see PI. xxxvii.). Plan (?).

TOMB No. 38.

Unfinished (see PI. xxxvii.). A small square chamber, with an uninscribed false door on the southern
half of the West wall.

TOMB No. 39.

Unfinished (see PI. xxxvii.). A small square chamber. The southern half of the West wall is
broken away.