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II. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OE THE TOMBS.
TOMB No. 1.
Tomb of the «
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Tehuti-nekht.
This tomb is much ruined by the earthquake
and by quarrying. It consisted of a main
chamber, with a small shrine at the inner end,
both fully decorated with painting. In plan
the main chamber is rectangular, measuring
26 feet 2 inches by 20 feet 10 inches, and is
about 12 feet in height. The facade has been
quarried away, and the greater part of the
two side walls thrown apart, so that they both
lean outwards. Their decoration is destroyed,
and the roof falling in has split and cracked
much of the inner wall. The shrine is a small
rectangular chamber, 4 feet 11 inches deep,
5 feet 7 inches wide, and 7 feet 4 inches high,
and is entered through a doorway, the thres-
hold of which is 1 foot 4 inches above the floor
of the main chamber. From the inner wall
projects a seated figure of Tehutinekht, over
life size, now much mutilated. The floor is at
the same level as the threshold, and is well
finished. Across the axis of the main chamber
is the opening of a large mummy-pit, 12 feet
10 inches long by 5 feet 8 inches wide (see
plan in pi. iv.).
The decoration of the tomb appears to have
been quite independent of sculpture, even the
framing of the shrine doorway being indicated
only in colour. The surface was overlaid with a
thin coat of stucco, which is now cracking and
ready to fall off. The scenes and inscriptions
were lightly incised in the stucco and painted
in colours, many of the inscriptions, however,
being filled in with a uniform plain pale
blue. There is little artistic merit in either
the design or the execution of the scenes
which remain (see the Frontispiece and pi. v.
for examples, reduced to 3 of the original
size).
The facade of the tomb has entirely dis-
appeared. In the main chamber there is a
dado painted to represent rose granite. No
traces remain upon it of a false door. Above
the dado are the scenes, surmounted by a
kheker ornament painted in colours. The ceil-
ing was richly ornamented. So far as can be
ascertained from the fallen fragments, the
arrangement was as follows :—A broad white
band, edged with yellow and blue and inscribed
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TOMB No. 1.
Tomb of the «
___a v-^~ " Gsbat Chief of the Hare Nome,"
/wvw\ "Mill
/WW\A
^f
Tehuti-nekht.
This tomb is much ruined by the earthquake
and by quarrying. It consisted of a main
chamber, with a small shrine at the inner end,
both fully decorated with painting. In plan
the main chamber is rectangular, measuring
26 feet 2 inches by 20 feet 10 inches, and is
about 12 feet in height. The facade has been
quarried away, and the greater part of the
two side walls thrown apart, so that they both
lean outwards. Their decoration is destroyed,
and the roof falling in has split and cracked
much of the inner wall. The shrine is a small
rectangular chamber, 4 feet 11 inches deep,
5 feet 7 inches wide, and 7 feet 4 inches high,
and is entered through a doorway, the thres-
hold of which is 1 foot 4 inches above the floor
of the main chamber. From the inner wall
projects a seated figure of Tehutinekht, over
life size, now much mutilated. The floor is at
the same level as the threshold, and is well
finished. Across the axis of the main chamber
is the opening of a large mummy-pit, 12 feet
10 inches long by 5 feet 8 inches wide (see
plan in pi. iv.).
The decoration of the tomb appears to have
been quite independent of sculpture, even the
framing of the shrine doorway being indicated
only in colour. The surface was overlaid with a
thin coat of stucco, which is now cracking and
ready to fall off. The scenes and inscriptions
were lightly incised in the stucco and painted
in colours, many of the inscriptions, however,
being filled in with a uniform plain pale
blue. There is little artistic merit in either
the design or the execution of the scenes
which remain (see the Frontispiece and pi. v.
for examples, reduced to 3 of the original
size).
The facade of the tomb has entirely dis-
appeared. In the main chamber there is a
dado painted to represent rose granite. No
traces remain upon it of a false door. Above
the dado are the scenes, surmounted by a
kheker ornament painted in colours. The ceil-
ing was richly ornamented. So far as can be
ascertained from the fallen fragments, the
arrangement was as follows :—A broad white
band, edged with yellow and blue and inscribed
c