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doors sculptured on the left-hand wall. Above
the dado are the roughly executed scenes, sur-
mounted by broad bands of colour, but without
hheker ornament.

The ceiling is yellow, ornamented with blue
stars.

YELLOW

RED.

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In one corner of the outer chamber (see
pi. xv.) is painted a column, with its capital
in the form of a full-blown lotus, and iu a
corner of the inner chamber a similar column
with a papyrus capital (see pi. xvii.). We may
confidently assert, on the strength of these
remains, that each chamber was represented as
upheld by four columns, those in the northern or
inner chamber representing the northern plant
j? , those in the outer or southern the plant of
the south ¥. This device is architecturally
important.

SCENES AND INSCRIPTIONS.

Facade.—Over the doorway there were four
horizontal lines of hieroglyphs (see pi. xiii.),
three of which are still perfect, incised and
painted blue, giving the name and titles of
Ahanekht. They read :—

1. De hetep seten Anpu neb Sep se-za ef nefer her
uaut-efnefert net Mer-neter khepept amakhu hex-
es dmakhy kher Anpu Ahanekht maa kheru

2. Ha kherp nesti mer hen neter her tep aa ne Tint
mereru neteru-es nebu dmakhy kher neter ua neb
pet Ahanekht maa kheru

3. Ha. kherp nesti sa.hu bdti semer uati hep an

rekhyt (?) ......... mer set dmentet dmakhy kher

Vs-dr neb Dedu Zehuti-nekkt sa Ahanekht maa,
kheru '

4. Ha, kherp nesti hen neter ............

1. " May the king give an offering to Anubis, lord of
Sep, making a good passage along the roads of
Icher-neter, on which the Amakhu travel, the de-
voted towards Anubis, Ahanekht.

2. The /ta-prince, regulator of the two thrones, superin-
tendent of the priests, the Great Chief of the Hare
nome, beloved of all its gods, the devoted towards
the great god, lord of Heaven, Ahanekht, justified.

3. The ha-pvmee, regulator of the two thrones, trea-
surer of the king of Lower Egypt, confidential

friend of the king ......... superintendent of the

Western desert, the devoted towards Osiris, lord of
Busiris, Tehutinekht's son, Ahanekht, justified.

4. The /m-prince, regulator of the two thrones, priest
of ........."

On the left-hand side are twelve columns of
hieroglyphs, reading2:—

5. Hd kherp nesti me\_r henu neter] .........

6. em, db-ef per kheru...... er gerg .........

7. dm Khemenu shems neb-ef khet hesept damn ne
......as ... shu.........

8. \_me~\des [er me~]des sekher sebd ............... sheta

9. dm ...... au Heru dm khen\f\ em, het-neht (?) ua

her khu \]ieq] ............ men red tur aui heby em

usekht ..........

1 These three lines have been published by Maspero in
Recueil de travaux, xiii. 193, from a copy preserved amongst
the papers of Nestor de l'Hoto in the Bibliotheque
Nationale (Tome iii. fo. 291).

- In 1. 14 occurs the well-known phrase
divided after the first sign by a considerable gap. Unless
this gap be due to a confusion in the copy, caused by the
ruinous state of the original, we must attribute it to the
desire of the sculptor to avoid a defect in the stone.